Administrative assistant Interview Questions
Executives rely on administrative assistants to keep busy schedules and company activities as clear and easy to navigate as possible. Expect questions about your organisational, time-management and communication skills. Many of these questions will be story based, so come ready to explain a time when you successfully juggled multiple deadlines or were able to handle difficult customers at the front desk. Although these interviews focus primarily on soft skills, you may be asked to answer a question about your ability to use basic administrative software.
Top Administrative Assistant Interview Questions & How to Answer
Here are three top administrative assistant interview questions and tips on how to answer them:
Question No. 1: Can you describe a situation in which you made an error and how you resolved the problem?
How to answer: Everyone makes mistakes at work, even the most experienced administrative professionals. When answering a question about an error, briefly describe the situation and how the mistake happened. Emphasise what you did to resolve the error and how you will avoid that mistake in the future. Use the STAR method to describe the situation, task, action and result.
Question No. 2: What office atmosphere do you prefer when working in an administrative assistant role?
How to answer: Administrative assistants often serve as the face of an office, so they need to hold specific skills, including the skills required of receptionists. When answering a question about your preferred office environment, consider the atmosphere of the position for which you are interviewing. Discuss your ability to work as part of a team and interact with others.
Question No. 3: How do you juggle multiple high-priority projects?
How to answer: An administrative assistant might support multiple individuals who provide projects that hold a high priority level. This question helps a hiring manager determine how applicants use their judgment when managing projects and assignments and how they manage their time.
How did you design a performance management system? And was it successful? Why or why not?
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How many hours would you ideally want to work?
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depending on my work .
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I can manage upto 10 hrs of work a day with efficiency.
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Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife. Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated, but does not know when her own husband has. The village has a law that does not allow for adultery. Any wife who can prove that her husband is unfaithful must kill him that very day. The women of the village would never disobey this law. One day, the queen of the village visits and announces that at least one husband has been unfaithful. What happens?
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Before the Queen made her announcement: • All the wives know of exactly 99 cheats because we know that all men cheat and no wife knows when her husband cheats or with whom. • No woman is admitting to cheating, after all there could be 99 virtuous women and 1 very busy woman, so there is no proof that anybody did it with anybody else. So nobody gets killed, but the village is probably not a happy place. After the Queen made her announcement: • The Queen only knows there is at least one cheater because she slept with him; if she had slept with two she would have said “At least two…”. Let us assume that the Queen says what she knows and only what she knows. • The Queen is the first woman to have made an admission, this changes everything. • Ninety-nine wives will already know that one of the men who is not their husband slept with the Queen; to the one remaining wife, this will be news and she will know immediately that it was her husband that slept with the Queen. She kills him that day. We happen to know that every man in the village cheated but if less than every man in the village cheated then the situation would have been: • One group of the women will state a particular number of cheats (n) some will state that number minus one (n-1). • The (n) group are lucky, they know they have faithful husbands. • Every wife in the (n-1) group knows they have been cheated but do not know with whom and cannot prove it. • No woman is admitting to cheating, after all there could be 99 virtuous women and 1 very busy woman, so there is no proof that anybody did it with anybody else. So nobody gets killed. Less
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The question usually includes something to the effect of "The women don't talk to each about the number of cheaters" otherwise the solution is pretty trivial. They tell each other how many cheaters they count and when everyone says 99 they know that every man is a cheater and all the men die. So, assuming they can't talk to each other. Each woman sees 99 cheaters. She doesn't know if there are 99 cheaters and her husband doesn't cheat, or if there are a 100 cheaters. At this point it's worth while to take a step back and think about this question recursively and from the opposite situation. 1 Cheater: The wife of the cheater sees no cheaters. Therefore her husband must be the 1 (and only cheater). She kills him on the day of the announcement (Day 0). All of the other women saw 1 cheater die and now they see none. 2 Cheaters: The wives of the cheater see 1 cheater. Everyone else sees 2 cheaters. The wives who see 1 cheater aren't sure if they are in the previous situation (only 1 cheater and it's not their husband) or this situation (there are 2 cheaters, 1 of whom is their husband). So they wait 1 day. When 1 day passes and no one is killed, the women who see 1 cheater know that they cannot be in the previous situation, because all the women absolutely follow the rules. Therefore 1 day after the announcement (Day 1) the two women who saw only 1 cheater kill their husbands 3 Cheaters: The wives of the cheaters see 2 cheaters. The other wives see 3 cheaters. The wives who see 2 cheaters don't know if they are in the previous situation or this situation. But if on Day 1 nobody dies then they know that none of the women saw only 1 cheater so they have to be in a situation of 3 cheaters and so the 3 of them kill their husband on Day 2. The general case is for N cheaters on Day N-1 (if you count the day of the announcement as Day 0... you could be thinking of calling it day 1 but let's be real you're interviewing at google so you 0 index everything) all the cheaters die. Applying that to the original question, on day 99 all the men die. QED Less
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The men are having homosexual affairs with one another. If the law doesn't allow for adultery and the women would never break the law, then the husbands that are unfaithful are unfaithful to their wives by being involved with another man. The line about the woman killing her husband if she can prove he cheated was thrown in as a distraction, I feel. I feel like this question is a test of logic and reasoning, but also the ability to consider all factors of a situation and to determine which facts are relevant to what is being asked or what needs to get done. In administrative tasks, it is easy to get distracted by every single little details since we are so detail-oriented, but sometimes, we just need to take a step back and point out the MAIN factors in order to get the result(s) needed. :) Less
Why did you choose Marriott?
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How would you handle a situation where you have a client who interrupt your existing interaction with a client?
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I politely tell the client who interrupted to please standby and that I will be able to answer their questions/handle their issues shortly. If they need immediate attention I will call a member of the team to assist. Less
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I apologize and ask him or her to please step in line and I’ll be right with them. If they interrupt I say understand completely and look for a manager. If there isn’t one available, I’d ask for the source of their urgency. If it’s just them being difficult without an interest in telling me their issue I’d tell them I’ll be with them shortly, I just have to help another customer. Really it helps to keep things short and simple, moving along as quickly as possible with other tasks at hand. Less
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Why do you want to work for our company?
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Would you have a problem understanding a different culture?
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