1. You’ve encountered a delay on an early phase of your project. What actions can you take to counter the delay? Which actions will have the most effect on the result?
2. Describe what you did in a difficult project environment to get the job done on time and on budget.
3. What actions are required for successful executive sponsorship of a project?
4. How did you get your last project?
5. What were your specific responsibilities?
6. What did you like about the project and dislike about the project?
7. What did you learn from the project?
8. Tell me about a time when you ran into any difficult situations. How did you handle them?
9. Tell me about the types of interaction you had with other employees.
10. Tell me of an accomplishment you are particularly proud of and what it entailed.
11. Do you have people from your past consulting services who would provide a professional reference?
12. What other similar consulting or independent contractor services have you rendered?
13. Discuss how you would envision working as an independent contractor or consultant for us.
14. What conflicting responsibilities will you have?
15. What would be your specific goals for this new role as a consultant or independent contractor?
16. What experience do you have that you think will be helpful?
17. This assignment will require a lot of [describe]. Will that be a problem for you?
18. This assignment will require interacting with [describe the types of people]. What experience do you have working with such people?
19. What would you like to get from this new assignment?
20. What are two common but major obstacles for a project like this? What would you do in the face of these obstacles to keep your team on schedule?
21. What is project charter? What are the elements in a project charter?
22. Which document will you refere for future decisions?
23. How will you define scope?
24. What is the output of scope definition process?
25. What is quality management?
26. Do you inspect or plan for quality ?
27. What is EVM? how will you use it in managing projects?
28. What is a project? and what is program?
29. What are project selection methods?
30. Which tool would you use to define, manage and control projects?
31. What is risk management and how will you plan risk response?
32. What are outputs of project closure?
33. What are the methods used for project estimation?
34. What methods have you used for estimation?
35. How would you start a project?
36. If you were to deliver a project to a customer, and timely delivery depended upon a sub-supplier, how would you manage the supplier? What contractual agreements would you put in place?
37. In this field (the field you are interviewing for), what are three critically important things you must do well as a project manager in order for the project to succeed?
38. What metrics would you expect to use to determine the on-going success of your project?
39. How are your soft skills? Can you “sell” the project to a team?
40. You have a team member who is not meeting his commitments, what do you do?
41. Companies have historically looked at technical skills, but more and more business managers are realizing that not have “people” skills tend to cripple projects.
42. How many projects you handled in the past? Deadlines met? On time/ within budget? Obstacles you had to overcome?
43. Do you understand milestones, interdependencies? Resource allocation?
44. Do you know what Project Software the new company uses and is there training for it?
45. Tell me about yourself. (To avoid rambling or becoming flustered, plan your answer.)
46. What are your strengths? (Make an exhaustive list and review it exhaustively before the interview.)
47. What are your weaknesses? (What you say here can and will be used against you!)
48. How would your current (or last) boss describe you?
49. What were your boss’s responsibilities? (Interviewers sometimes ask this question to prevent you from having the chance to claim that you did your boss’s job. Be ready for it!)
50. What’s your opinion of them? (Never criticize your past or present boss in an interview. It just makes you look bad!)
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