Auction Assistant

☛ What's most important to you in a new position?

☛ What type of work environment do you prefer?

☛ What is a typical career path in this job function?

☛ Do you have the qualities and skills necessary to succeed in your career?

☛ Describe a time you were faced with stresses which tested your skills.

☛ What would you say are your strong points?

☛ Give me an example that best describes your organizational skills.

☛ What was the most difficult period in your life, and how did you deal with it?

☛ Situation in which you had to arrive at a compromise.

☛ How have you changed in the last five years?

Emphasize benefits to the company.

A short positive response is best. It is meant to see whether or not you'll speak poorly of an employer.

☛ What comes to mind when you think of our company? Why do you want to work here?

☛ What appeals to you about this particular job?

☛ How do you envision an administrative assistant being able to contribute to our firm?

☛ In which type of office environment do you excel most?

☛ Why did you leave your last administrative assistant position? (Or: Why are you looking to leave your current administrative assistant position?) What would have convinced you to stay?

☛ What are three positive character traits you don't have?

☛ What are you expecting from this firm in the future?

☛ Tell about a time that you had to adapt to a difficult situation.

☛ Tell me about yourself.

☛ Tell me about an important issue you encountered recently.

Avoid negative comments about past employers. Prepare a list of things you want to say in the interview.

The interviewers want to know the real you, the potential candidate they may accept in.

☛ What relevant experience do you have?

☛ You have not done this sort of job before. How will you succeed?

☛ What parts of your education do you see as relevant to this position?

☛ What do you think, would you be willing to travel for work?

☛ How did you handle meeting a tight deadline?

Don't feel too much pressure as you have been asked many strict questions that you are unable to answer well.

Never use any adjectives for these sort of Auction Assistant interview questions. Answer all Auction Assistant interview questions honestly and stay focused throughout the hiring process.

☛ How do you prioritize your work? How well does this work?

☛ If you have a situation where several people gave assignments-all due very quickly-how would you handle the problem?

☛ What’s the most interesting project you’ve worked on as an administrative assistant?

☛ What do you enjoy most about administrative work?

☛ How have you changed the administrative assistant position at past companies?

☛ What trends do you see impacting the administrative assistant role in the future?

☛ What administrative assistant interview questions would you ask if you were doing the hiring?

☛ Did you feel you progressed satisfactorily in your last job?

☛ When given an important assignment, how do you approach it?

☛ Tell me about an important goal that you set in the past.

☛ If you were hiring a person for this job, what would you look for?

☛ How do you react to instruction and criticism?

☛ How do you decide what gets top priority when scheduling your time?

☛ Has anything ever irritated you about people you've worked with?

☛ Give examples of ideas you've had or implemented.

☛ Describe a situation where you had to plan or organise something.

☛ What steps do you follow to study a problem before making a decision?

Be very thoughtful about your answer. Try to answer Auction Assistant interview questions completely. Focus on positive achievements and views.

☛ How do you organize your typical workday?

☛ How do you begin a complex work assignment?

☛ What do you do when you have slow/down times at work? Please be specific.

☛ What sort of direction do you want from a supervisor? Do you like detailed instructions, or would you rather just know the highlights? Do you want them in writing?

☛ What are your salary requirements.

☛ Who else have you applied to/got interviews with?

☛ Would you rather write a report or give it verbally?

☛ Your greatest weakness in school or at work?

☛ When was the last time you were in a crises?

☛ Are you planning to continue your studies?

☛ Do you work well under pressure?

☛ Example when you went above and beyond the call of duty.

☛ Do you know anyone who works with our company?

☛ What are you looking for in terms of career development?

Focus on scheduling and prioritizing activities. How do you decide which are the most important activities? Include criteria such as urgency of the tasks, deadlines to be met, available resources and setting realistic targets. Outline the tools you use to plan your day including the computer applications you have found helpful.

Remember when answering administrative assistant interview questions about customer service that your colleagues, supervisors and managers are your internal customers in addition to any external customers that you have to deal with.

In your interview answer focus on the following: - asking the right questions in order to clarify the customer's wants and needs - using your knowledge and skills to determine how to meet those needs. Describe how you went about providing the right service to meet the customer's needs.

Besides duties like handling calls and other forms of communication, managing documentation, coordinating events, etc., an office assistant maintains an efficient and pleasant working environment by keeping it fresh and free of clutter.

Attending to and completing all the details results in accuracy. Give examples of when you have addressed mistakes in your or other people's work. Focus on following the correct procedures to complete a task and check your work.