American Red Cross Interview Questions
Go Back1. How do you handle an unhappy stakeholder?
2. Please share a time in your teaching experience when things didn't go as planned. How did you respond?
3. How do you approach establishing a baseline of understanding when you start working with new people?
4. Please share your experience familiarizing yourself with an office, organization, or chapter you have managed.
5. Why do you want to work for the American Red Cross?
6. Employees of the American Red Cross often work weekends and other nonstandard work hours for special events, blood drives, emergency situations, etc. Are you available to work these hours?
7. Are you comfortable working with bio-hazardous materials?
8. As this is a fundraising position, would you share with us the size of your previous portfolio? Please also detail your donor base, in-kind donations, major gifts, etc.
9. Share your experience targeting specific demographics for volunteer recruitment.
10. In your fundraising experience, have you worked more with corporate or individual donors?
11. The American Red Cross is a fast-paced environment where employees often juggle multiple projects and responsibilities. How do you handle stress on the job?
12. Are you applying for any other jobs?
13. Share your perspective on asking volunteers to not return to your organization.
14. In addition to its domestic programs, the Red Cross operates internationally. Describe your experiences working with culturally diverse groups.
15. Describe your experience and knowledge in the area of blood manufacturing.
16. What is your philosophy regarding work-life balance?
17. Do you have experience with writing grant proposals?
18. Thinking back to your program management experience, discuss a time when you supervised the expansion of a program.
19. How do you manage your time during a professional presentation?
20. Volunteers drive the work of the American Red Cross. How do you motivate and manage volunteers?
21. Share a time when you have successfully procured a large gift and what strategy you employed to do so.
22. Discuss a time when you discovered a problem in your team's or individual position's operational structure. How did you address the problem and overcome it?
23. How would you procure new sponsors for blood drives?
24. What would you do if there was extreme weather and you determined that your blood drive would have no attendees as a result?
25. How would you go about resolving a conflict between volunteers who are arguing?
26. Have you ever had to express disagreement with a suggestion from a board member, chairperson, or an organizational leader?
27. Tell me about a time your team members seemed to grasp a new concept, skill, technique, or process before you did.
28. Talk about a situation where you had to alter your strategy in order to solve a problem.
29. Talk about a situation where you were required to maintain a great amount of energy over a long period of time in order to complete a project.
30. Have you ever been advised by a fellow employee or supervisor to lie about a situation? How did you handle this ethical dilemma?
31. Manufacturing and testing blood is an important part of the work we do at the American Red Cross. Talk about a time where you encountered a problem while working in a lab and how you overcame it.
32. Explain your skills and experience related to website and social media analytics?
33. Describe your technical skills, specifically your computer knowledge and experience using Microsoft products.
34. Talk about your experience maintaining records in a digital database.