Here are a number of questions you might be asked during an interview for an executive level position:
- How would you describe your management style?
- Why are you interested in our company?
- What do you think makes you a good fit for this position? Thinking about this specific role, what aspects do you think would be the biggest challenge for you?
- What is the most difficult thing about being an executive or manager?
- What are the methods you typically use to evaluate an employee's job performance?
- Tell me about a time in which you brought productive change to a company. How did you implement this change?
- Describe a time when you had to deal with difficult or unmotivated staff.
- Describe your experience reading and interpreting accounting and financial reports.
- If you were hired, what would be your priorities in your first three to six months on the job?
- What are two things you believe our company is doing well? What's one thing that you think we should change?
- What do you look for in an employee? What behaviors and performances do you expect of an ideal employee?
- Tell me how you have created a shared purpose among people who initially differed in opinions or objectives.
- Give us an example of a method you have used to successfully encourage/motivate your staff.
- How would you handle an unforeseen obstacle or a situation that resulted through a third-party, that affects your bottom-line?
- What's your communication style?
- Describe a time when you confronted an employee whose results were inadequate.
- What did you do to increase company revenues at your current company?