HRM410- Strategic Staffing
Student Name:
Elizabeth Linscott
Job Title:
Leasing Agent
Brief description of position:
The leasing agent works with potential and current residents, as well as the management team. This person is responsible for various tasks within the office in the business of leasing, marketing, administrative tasks, and maintaining positive resident relations. Excellent communication, problem solving, professionalism, clerical, and customer service skills are required.
1) Interview Question:
What skills do you feel are needed to be successful in this position?
Why is this question important? What type of information are you hoping to elicit from the candidate?
This question will allow the candidate to express their understanding of the position. Fit, expectations, understanding, and skills set is the information I am hoping to gather from this question.
2) Interview Question:
What is your overall career goal? Where do you hope to be in 5 years? 10 years?
Why is this question important? What type of information are you hoping to elicit from the candidate?
This question is important in predicting the success of the candidate based on their long term goals. Long term thinking, motivators, self-awareness, is the information I am hoping to gather from this question
3) Interview Question:
What do you feel your last manager would say about you?
Why is this question important? What type of information are you hoping to elicit from the candidate?
This question is important in finding out if the candidate is honest, as a reference check will be done. Communication skills, detail orientation, work ethic will be information I would like to gather from this question.
4) Interview Question:
Tell me about a time you saw a problem and created a solution?
Why is this question important? What type of information are you hoping to elicit from the candidate?
This question will be important in uncovering the candidate’s