We have broken down these questions into several categories. These are great for providing you with the opportunity to build rapport and allow you to learn about the company and the position.

General Interview Questions:

1. Please discuss your background and your current situation?
2. What are your motivations for seeking a new job and transitioning out of your current role?
3. Why are you interested in this position?
4. What type of role are you looking for in terms of day-to-day responsibilities?
5. What are some of your short and long-term career goals?
6. What are your strongest skill set and strengths? How do you apply them everyday in your current role? How would these skill sets apply to this role?
7. In what way do you feel you can add value and contribute to this organization?
8. How many employees do you currently manage directly/indirectly?
9. Do you have any financial or budget responsibility within your organization?
10. Describe your most recent project. What role did you play in this project and what was the outcome?
11. Why do feel you are the best candidate for this role?

Behavioral/Situational Questions:

1. Sustain Focus on Performance: Describe a situation in which a project you were managing was not progressing as you expected (e.g., deadlines threatened, poor quality, unexpected problems, etc.). What did you do? How did it work out?
2. Decision Making: Describe a complicated problem you have had to deal with on your job. How did you identify or gain a better understanding of that problem? What was the result?
3. Manage Change: Describe a way in which you worked with your team members to develop new and creative ideas to solve business problems. What was your approach? What was the outcome?
4. Encourage Open Discussion & Debate: Provide an example about a meeting or presentation where you had to alter your communication to ensure the audience understood your ideas. What steps did you take to do that? How was it received?
5. Foster Innovation/Creativity: Describe how you improved the productivity/profitability of your work unit. How did you identify these opportunities for improvement?
6. Demonstrate Strategic Agility: Describe a situation in which you had to adjust quickly to a significant change in your organization, department, or team priorities. How did the change affect you? What did you do?
7. Align Across Company: Describe a situation when you became frustrated or impatient when dealing with an internal partner. What did you do? How did it work out?
8. Willingness to Confront: Provide an example of a time when the value of an idea was met with opposition from your manager or a client. How did you mange this opposition?
9. Caution: Discuss a time when you questioned your choices and hesitated on taking action on an important decision?
10. Follow Through: Describe a time when you had conflicting priorities? How did you decide which things to do first and which to tend to later?

Questions to ask the interviewer:

1. Why is this position currently open?
2. What type of background and skill set are you seeking in the person you hire for this role?
3. What are some of your short and long-term plans for the department and the organization?
4. Can you describe a typical day for this role?
5. How would you define your organization's culture and management philosophy?
6. Will there be any type of initial training period on the company's products/services?
7. What is the career path for this position within the organization?
8. What activities can I engage in now that might help me on the job if I am hired?
9. How are performance evaluations administered and how often?
10. Are there any specific educational requirements required for this role?
11. What are the biggest gaps or deficiencies in the department currently?
12. What is the time frame you are seeking to make a final decision on this role?