City Superintendent Interview Questions

16 What is the key to a successful budget?
17 Provide an experience that demonstrates your ability to manage time effectively. What were the challenges and results?
18 Share an experience in which your ability to consider the costs or benefits of a potential action helped you choose the most appropriate action.
19 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?
20 Describe an experience in which your ability to work well with others and reconcile differences helped your company or employer. (Make sure the candidate knows how to negotiate.)
21 Describe a time when you successfully persuaded another person to change his/her way of thinking or behavior.
22 Share an experience in which you successfully coordinated with others. How about a coordination effort that was not as successful?
23 Provide an example when you were able to prevent a problem because you foresaw the reaction of another person.
24 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.
25 Share an experience in which your understanding of a current or upcoming problem helped your company to respond to the problem.
26 Name a time when you identified strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions to problems. What was the impact?
27 Please share an experience in which you presented to a group. What was the situation and how did it go?
28 How would you rate your writing skills? (Ask for an example that demonstrates great writing skills.)
29 Provide an example of a time when you were able to demonstrate excellent listening skills. What was the situation and outcome?
30 Provide an example when your ethics were tested.