Economist Interview Questions

1 Share an experience in which your ability to consider the costs or benefits of a potential action helped you choose the most appropriate action.
2 Share an experience in which you effectively supervised research or study projects. What methods made you successful?
3 Name a time when your advice to management led to an improvement in your company or otherwise helped your employer.
4 Describe an experience in which you identified the educational needs of your students and successfully developed a way to teach/train them.
5 Share an experience in which you successfully shared a difficult piece of information. (Make sure that the candidate has open lines of communication.)
6 Tell me how you organize, plan, and prioritize your work.
7 Share an experience when you applied new technology or information in your job. How did it help your company?
8 Give me an example of when you thought outside of the box. How did it help your employer?
9 Tell me about an experience in which you analyzed information and evaluated results to choose the best solution to a problem.
10 Would you consider analyzing data or information a strength? How so?
11 Share an effective approach to working with a large amount of information/data. How has your approach affected your company?
12 Share an example of a time you had to gather information from multiple sources. How did you determine which information was relevant?
13 Provide a time when you were able to identify a complex problem, evaluate the options, and implement a solution. How did the solution benefit your employer?
14 Name a time when you identified strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions to problems. What was the impact?
15 Please share an experience in which you presented to a group. What was the situation and how did it go?