The below questions are for hire a Project Manager.

This can also be used for evaluating

already hired project managers.

1. How do you handle non-productive team members?

2. How do you motivate team members who are burned out, or bored?
3. How do you handle team members who come to you with their personal problems?
4. What are your career goals? How do you see this job affecting your goals?
5. Explain how you operate interdepartmentally.
6. Tell me how you would react to a situation where there was more than one way to
accomplish the same task, and there were very strong feelings by others on each position.
7. Consider that you are in a diverse environment, out of your comfort zone. How would you
rate your situational leadership style?
8. Give me an example of your leadership involvement where teamwork played an important
role.
9. Tell me about a situation where your loyalty was challenged. What did you do? Why?
10. In what types of situations is it best to abandon loyalty to your manager?
11. In today’s business environment, when is loyalty to your manager particularly important?
12. Why are you interested in this position?
13. Describe what you think it would be like to do this job every day.
14. What do you believe qualifies you for this position?
15. What have you learned from your failures?
16. Of your previous jobs, which one did you enjoy the most? What did you like the
most/least? Why? What was your major accomplishment? What was your biggest frustration?
17. Tell me about special projects or training you have had that would be relevant to this job.
18. What are some things that you would not like your job to include?
19. What are your current work plans? Why are you thinking about leaving your present job?
20. Describe an ideal job for you.
21. What would you do if you found out that a contractor was in a conflict of interest
situation?
22. If I were to contact your former employee, what would he say about your decision-
making abilities?
23. Give me an example of a win-win situation you have negotiated.
24. Tell me about your verbal and written communication ability. How well do you represent
yourself to others? What makes you think so?
25. Give me an example of a stressful situation you have been in. How well did you handle
it? If you had to do it over again, would you do it differently? How do you deal with stress,
pressure, and unreasonable demands?
26. Tell me about a tough decision you had to make?
27. Describe what you did at your work place yesterday.
28. How would you solve the following technical problem? (Describe a typical scenario that
could occur in the new position.)
29. What strengths did you bring to your last position?
30. Describe how those contributions impacted results?
31. What are the necessary steps to successful project management?
32. How do you plan for a project?
33. What is important to consider when planning a (your type of project)?
34. What are things that you have found to be low priority when planning for (your type of
project)?
35. What distinguishes a project from routine operations?
36. What are the three constraints on a project?
37. What are the five control components of a project?
38. What qualifications are required to be an effective project manager?
39. What experience have you had in project management?
40. Name five signs that indicate your project may fail.
41. Tell us about a project in which you participated and your role in that project.
42. When you are assigned a project, what steps do you take to complete the project?
43. As you begin your assignment as a project manager, you quickly realise that the corporate
sponsor for the project no longer supports the project. What will you do?
44. Your three month project is about to exceed the projected budget after the first month.
What steps will you take to address the potential cost overrun?
45. Tell us about a successful project in which you participated and how you contributed to
the success of that project.
46. You are given the assignment of project manager and the team members have already
been identified. To increase the effectiveness of your project team, what steps will you take?
47. You have been assigned as the project manager for a team comprised of new employees
just out of college and “entry-level” consulting staff. What steps can you take to insure that
the project is completed against a very tight time deadline?
48. What is a “project milestone”?
49. What is “project float”?
50. Your project is beginning to exceed budget and to fall behind schedule due to almost
daily user change orders and increasing conflicts in user requirements. How will you address
the user issues?
51. 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?
52. Describe what you did in a difficult project environment to get the job done on time and
on budget.
53. What actions are required for successful executive sponsorship of a project?
54. How did you get your last project?
55. What were your specific responsibilities?
56. What did you like about the project and dislike about the project?
57. What did you learn from the project?
58. Tell me about a time when you ran into any difficult situations. How did you handle
them?
59. Tell me about the types of interaction you had with other employees.
60. Tell me of an accomplishment you are particularly proud of and what it entailed.
61. Do you have people from your past consulting services who would provide a professional
reference?
62. What other similar consulting or independent contractor services have you rendered?
63. Discuss how you would envision working as an independent contractor or consultant for
us.
64. What conflicting responsibilities will you have?
65. What would be your specific goals for this new role as a consultant or independent
contractor?
66. What experience do you have that you think will be helpful?
67. This assignment will require a lot of [describe]. Will that be a problem for you?
68. This assignment will require interacting with [describe the types of people]. What
experience do you have working with such people?
69. What would you like to get from this new assignment?
70. 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?
71. What is project charter? What are the elements in a project charter?
72. Which document will you refere for future decisions?
73. How will you define scope?
74. What is the output of scope definition process?
75. What is quality management?
76. Do you inspect or plan for quality ?
77. What is EVM? how will you use it in managing projects?
78. What is a project? and what is program?
79. What are project selection methods?
80. Which tool would you use to define, manage and control projects?
81. What is risk management and how will you plan risk response?
82. What are outputs of project closure?
83. What are the methods used for project estimation?
84. What methods have you used for estimation?
85. How would you start a project?
86. 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?
87. 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?
88. What metrics would you expect to use to determine the on-going success of your project?
89. How are your soft skills? Can you “sell” the project to a team?
90. You have a team member who is not meeting his commitments, what do you do?
91. Companies have historically looked at technical skills, but more and more business
managers are realizing that not have “people” skills tend to cripple projects.
92. How many projects you handled in the past? Deadlines met? On time/ within budget?
Obstacles you had to overcome?
93. Do you understand milestones, interdependencies? Resource allocation?
94. Do you know what Project Software the new company uses and is there training for it?
95. Tell me about yourself. (To avoid rambling or becoming flustered, plan your answer.)
96. What are your strengths? (Make an exhaustive list and review it exhaustively before the
interview.)
97. What are your weaknesses? (What you say here can and will be used against you!)
98. How would your current (or last) boss describe you?
99. 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!)
100. What’s your opinion of them? (Never criticize your past or present boss in an interview.
It just makes you look bad!)
25 Sample interview questions for project managers

 Why are you keen in this position?

 What are your career goals and how does this job fit in with your goals?
 How to you handle less productive members of your team?
 How do you motivate the least productive members of your team?
 How would you describe your leadership style?
 What do you think qualifies you to this post?
 Which of your previous jobs did you like the most and why?
 Which of your previous posts did you like the least and why?
 How do you handle stress
 Describe a tough decision you had to take; what factors influenced your decision?
 What is your main strength?
 What is your weakness?
 What are the most important considerations when organizing a project?
 In your view what are the main constraints when organizing a project?
 Describe a successful project you led from start to finish
 How do you react to project delays?
 What are your most important skills?
 How would you describe risk management and how do you minimize it?
 Describe how you would go about starting a project from the onset
 Describe a major crisis you faced in a project and how your managed it
 How would you define team building?
 What is your project management style?
 Is your management style influenced by project size and complexity?
 What actions do you take to ensure projects remain on track?
 How do you handle difficult team members?
Things You'll Need:
 detail orientation
 construction plan
 project specifications

1. 1

Specifications: Once you have all the specifications for your project, and you know
the design to the last detail (blueprint/plan is strongly recommended) we can move to
the next step.

2. 2

Budgeting (research): You will need to research the cost of each part of your project
(plumbing, electrical, roofing etc.). Add all the numbers and add at least 15% for
errors and miscalculations. Do not forget appliances and fixtures. Write everything.

3. 3

Scheduling: Each trade need sufficient time to complete it's job. Same with budgeting
you'll need to budget your time for each trade. Total the time. Write everything.

4. 4

Interviewing subcontractors: Read my article how to choose a contractor.

5. 5

Contracting: Have the contracts reviewed by a professional and make sure there is a
firm completion date on each trade to meet your scheduling.

6. 6

Consulting: You may hire a professional to do all this and more for you a good source
is www.helpubuildinc.com feel free to message me with any question.

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 Tell us about your experience in managing different projects and how this can
contribute to our position.

It is important to structure your interview answer because this is a multi-layered and fairly
complex question. Start by explaining how you will answer the question. This keeps your
answer on track and to the point.

"I will begin by giving you a short description of my last three projects. I will then detail the
skills and abilities I developed as a result of each project and then demonstrate the value of
these skills to this position."

You can then go on to provide a brief but concise summary of each project.

"I was the project manager for the XYZ project and this involved ..."

Then describe the skills you acquired during the project.

"I encountered a number of difficulties on this project that required an innovative approach. I
used group problem solving sessions as one of these approaches. This worked well because it
helped each team member to clarify their particular project role and responsibility and we
were able to develop plans and realistic schedules that the whole project team contributed
to ..."

Demonstrate how these skills will benefit the position and company.

"Projects now are faced with tighter budgets and fewer resources. This approach maximizes
the available resources and keeps everyone focused and motivated for the duration of the
project..."

Describe how you recently managed a diverse project team towards a common goal.

Focus on your ability to delegate in a fair and practical way, how you clearly defined project
roles and responsibilities, kept personality clashes and conflict to a minimum and monitored
and fed back to the project team. Outline your management style and why it worked.

Describe the most complex project you have managed from start to finish.

Provide a comprehensive answer remembering to explain the project as you would to a client
and not to somebody who has been involved in the project.

The more complex a project the more formal processes and techniques are needed to
effectively manage the work. Explain the purpose, value and implementation of the most
critical aspects of the project including managing the project work plan, the project schedule,
the project risks, the project issues and closing the project.

Be enthusiastic about your accomplishments and specify how your experience will benefit the
company. Point out where you made a difference on the project in terms of expenditure,
quality, efficiency, customer satisfaction and business and organizational success.
Standard Project Management Interview Questions:
How do you determine realistic schedules for the project?

Explain your methods for resource allocation.

How do you manage suppliers?

How do you inform all the stakeholders of the progress of the project on a regular basis?

How do you monitor risks to the project and mitigate them?

What tools do you use to monitor and control projects?

What project management methodologies are you most familiar with?

What project software have you used?

What change management processes have you used to ensure that change is introduced
properly?

What are the practices you follow for closing a project and meeting the conditions required
to establish closure?

What specific training have you had that would be relevant to this project manager job?

Answer your interview questions in a calm and assertive tone. Take time to gather your
thoughts before answering, it is a key project manager skill to be able to process the facts
before responding!