Executive Secretary Interview Questions

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31 Provide an experience in which you compiled, transcribed, and distributed minutes of meetings.
32 Are you responsible for analyzing and distributing incoming emails, reports, or submissions? How do you determine who to distribute the material to?
33 How do you decide whether a visitor should be given access to specific individuals within your company? (Ask for an example of a guest that was especially persistent.)
34 Give me an example of when you thought outside of the box. How did it help your employer?
35 Share an experience in which you successfully coordinated with others. How about a coordination effort that was not as successful?
36 Have you ever been involved in setting up or overseeing administrative policies and procedures?
37 How much of your last job consisted of filing and retrieving corporate documents?
38 How much experience do you have with managing records, maintaining database systems, or performing basic bookkeeping work?
39 What have you found to be the best way to monitor the performance of your work and/or the work of others? Share a time when you had to take corrective action.
40 Have you prepared agendas for committee, board, or other meetings? (How much guidance was the candidate given?)
41 Have you saved others' time by preparing responses to correspondence containing common or routine inquiries?
42 How much experience do you have making travel arrangements for executives?
43 Provide an example of a time when you successfully organized a diverse group of people to accomplish a task.
44 Provide an example of when you were persistent in the face of obstacles.
45 Tell me about the last time you monitored or reviewed information and detected a problem. How did you respond?