HR Questions Bank for Mock Interview Sessions

1. What do you like most about working in human resources?

2. Can you give a short description of an ideal HR workplace for you?
3. What are your future goals as an HR employee?
4. What made you consider HR as a profession?
5. What questions would you ask me if you were the interviewer?
6. How have you handled cost reduction efforts as an HR employee?
7. As an HR employee, how do you deal effectively with challenges within a team you are
leading?
8. Have you handled or led a team comprised of workers from different backgrounds? If
you have, can you share your experience with us?
9. How do you win the cooperation of members of a team you are leading?
10. What is your recruiting strategy as an HR employee?
11. How would your current and previous managers describe you?
12. What is the difference between a group and a team? Do you consider yourself a team
player?
13. How do you ensure members of a team you are leading work together as a unit and also
cooperate with you on the project?
14. What is your recruiting approach, and how do you find gifted job applicants?
15. How have you handled conflicts within a project team you are leading?
16. What is [your] management style?
17. As an HR Manager, how will [you] drive results?
18. What do you like least about the world of human resources?
19. As an HR person, what is your view on job eliminations?
20. Describe your strategy or difficult experience you had with an employer/manager/co-
worker and how you handled it.
21. What trends will shape Human Resource departments over the next five years?

Talent Acquisition

1. What is the difference between talent acquisition and recruiting?

2. What skills make you qualified for this role?
3. What are the steps of your talent acquisition process?
4. How do you stay up to date with hiring trends?
5. How can you help our company find better candidates?
6. What do you look for in a candidate?
7. Have you used any applicant tracking systems?
8. What is your experience with online recruiting?
9. What resources do you use to find qualified candidates?
10. How do you prepare for interviews with candidates?
11. What steps do you take to help with the onboarding process?
12. Tell me about a time you missed out on a great candidate. What could you have done
better?
13. How do you stay connected with candidates?
14. What screening processes are you familiar with?
15. How would you decide between two candidates with similar qualifications?
16. How would you improve our employment brand?
17. What would you do if a candidate was late or did not show up for an interview?
18. Describe what you would do to create a useful succession plan.
19. How would you maintain quality sourcing and recruiting if our demand for new hires
suddenly doubled?
20. What questions would you ask when conducting a phone interview?
21. Explain what you would do to make an effective onboarding process.
22. What strategies would you use to retain more talent?
23. What strategies would you use to attract more talent?
24. How would you determine if a current employee is a good fit for an opening?
25. What skills make you qualified for this role?
Compensation and Benefits Specialist
1. What qualities should a benefit specialist have to be successful?
2. What do you know about our company and current benefits programs? What interests
you about the job?
3. How do you stay up to date on current employee labor laws and policies?
4. How do you ensure the compliance of benefits companies offer with state and federal
employment laws?
5. How do you ensure all programs, policies, and procedures are legally compliant?
6. What kind of benefits do you feel interns should have in an organization?
7. How would you determine which employee benefits to expand or eliminate?
8. How do you research and propose new benefits policies?
9. What kind of benefits would you recommend to our company for remote employees?
10. Do you have experience working with human resources management systems?
11. What limitations do you feel a work-from-home benefits policy should encompass to
ensure employee productivity?
12. How do you ensure employee records are accurate and up to date?
13. What's your approach to educating employees on their health insurance benefits?
14. What do you do to ensure employees use their health and personal leave benefits?
15. How do you calculate and keep track of the costs for company benefits?
16. Do you have any experience with payroll software?
17. Can you describe your/some method for evaluating job positions?
18. Can you describe about commonly benefits issue?

Labour Officer/ Employee Relations Manager

1. Why do you want to work in employee relations?
2. What do you think is the most important quality for someone in this role to have?
3. How do you handle stress?
4. What do you do to stay up to date with changes in employment law?
5. How do you identify the employees who need your help?
6. What question or questions do you believe are important to include during an employee
exit interview?
7. How do you feel your educational background prepared you for this role?
8. Tell me something you've accomplished that directly contributed to the organization's
bottom line.
9. Tell me about a time when you were proactive in addressing a minor issue before it
become a much bigger problem.
10. Have you ever had to deal with a difficult investigation? How did you handle that?
11. What new ideas do you have that would add value to this position?
12. Tell me about a time that you offered management advice that led to an improvement
within the company?
13. Tell me how you would deal with a difficult employee. How will you handle the
situation?
14. Share with me a time that you helped mentor an employee. What steps did you take and
what improvements did you see as a result of the additional coaching?
15. Tell me about a time you oversaw someone else's work. What did you do to motivate
them and help them develop their talent?

Learning and Development

1. Describe the term training of employees for a company.

2. Is it correct that humour helps in learning?
3. During training how should be the vocabulary of the trainer?
4. What do you understand by pitch?
5. How to keep learners engaged?
6. How to have effective learning?
7. Describe MBTI
8. What do you understand by the VAK Learning Style?
9. Describe the Kolb Learning Style
10. How does the adult learning differ against child learning?
11. How Cartoons or Comic Books be applied as a training aid?
12. Describe competency.
13. What do you understand by In Basket or In Tray training method?
14. Describe Sensitivity Training
15. What are the various methods for assessing the training needs?
16. Describe skill gap analysis.
17. Explain OJT
18. How do you relate to working in a team of L&D professional?
 19. How you manage conflict during learning?
20. How will you address under performance by your subordinates?
21. How do you prioritize L & D related tasks?
22. How you delegate L & D related tasks to juniors?
23. How to organize information related to L & D projects?
24. What is the type of learner response if the response is: 'Tell me about it now’?
25. Enlist your strengths as an L & D professional.
26. What is indicated by self-talk by a learner during training?
27. What measures you take to track and monitor impact of training sessions?
28. How you address last-minute changes to a training program?
29. How you develop content from scratch for specific training?
30. What is the impact of training program modification?
31. What steps are taken by you to be updated of new trends in employee learning and
development?
32. Which qualities are present in an effective and efficient L & D manager?
33. Which factor affect training program design?
34. What ensures that employee training sessions are effective?
35. How will train your superiors?
36. How did you respond to negative feedback?
37. How did you manage issues if any with an employee during training?
38. How your learning and development program does have a positive impact on the
company?
39. How to select teaching methods for effective learning experience?
40. How do you motivate employees for learning?
41. How to organize training sessions?
42. What challenges do employees face for their skill development?
43. What is the key to training adults?
44. How do you assign goals for your L & D team?
Goals are assigned to the team by using the STAR approach and considering the resource
availability with organizational objectives to achieve.
45. What is a STAR approach?
46. Why you are suitable as L & D professional?
47. How did you manage privacy and confidentiality during L & D activities?
48. Do you enjoy being a ‘People’ Person?
49. When were you most satisfied with your role as L & D professional?
Performance Management
1. What are the roles of a Performance Manager?
2. What are the qualities that a performance manager needs to have to be successful?
3. How will you differentiate between performance appraisal and performance
management?
4. What do you understand OKRAs?
5. What are challenges you feel are there in performance management and performance
appraisals?
6. Discuss about KPIs and KRAs? How are they different?
7. How Balance Scorecard works?
8. Why Feedback is important in performance management?
9. What is a role of performance audit, coaching and mentoring in performance
management?
10. How do we decide on performance dimensions?
11. What are the various methods of performance appraisals?
12. Which method you found is more apt for performance appraisal?
13. What would be strategy to enhance performance of less motivated employees?
14. What do you understand by Total Rewards Strategy?
15. What is a utility of performance management?

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