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HR Consultant Mock Interview

To help you prepare for your HR Consultant interview, here are 40 interview questions and answer examples.

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When a major HR problem arises, what is your first reaction?

When things go south in the workplace, the HR professional is often the first place a company will look for answers. To get a feel for how you handle problems within the workplace as an HR Consultant, your interview will be looking to hear that you have your emotions under control and that you are ready to step into action at any given moment. Your job is people, and people are unpredictable. Your interviewer also wants to hear that your reactions to problems reflect maturity and professionalism. Demonstrate that you take a systematic approach to problem-solving rather than react impulsively when an HR-related problem occurs.

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40 HR Consultant Interview Questions & Answers

Below is a list of our HR Consultant interview questions. Click on any interview question to view our answer advice and answer examples. You may view six answer examples before our paywall loads. Afterwards, you'll be asked to upgrade to view the rest of our answers.

  • Behavioral

    1. When a major HR problem arises, what is your first reaction?

  • Communication

    2. How do you develop trust among your team in a virtual, or work-from-home, setting?

  • Competency

    3. Do you have experience using HR data analytics for the purpose of compensation benchmarking?

  • Competency

    4. In which HR software tools are you best versed?

  • Competency

    5. In your opinion, what are the core competencies of organizational effectiveness?

  • Creative Thinking

    6. Where do you see more innovation happening in the Human Resources field over the next five to ten years?

  • Creative Thinking

    7. As our next HR Consultant, what cost saving experience within HR would you bring to our team?

  • Creative Thinking

    8. If hired as our next HR Consultant, what do you feel should be the single most important metric that we focus on for the next five years?

  • Diligence

    9. How do you keep up with changes in legislature and human resource law?

  • Diligence

    10. Tell me one valuable skill that you are currently working on improving to be a more complete HR Consultant.

  • Diligence

    11. What do you believe to be the most prominent human resource trend of the year? Have you yet embraced it?

  • Diligence

    12. Hiring smart is the key to an organizations' success. What interview techniques do you lean on to ensure effective new hires?

  • Direct

    13. Do you think honesty is always the best policy?

  • Direct

    14. What questions do you have for me?

  • Direct

    15. What is your perspective on work-life integration and how would you bring them to our organization?

  • Discovery

    16. Being our next HR Consultant will often require you to inspire excellence in others. What does greatness mean to you?

  • Diversity

    17. Do you possess the knowledge and awareness required to communicate in a multicultural workplace?

  • Diversity

    18. If hired at our organization, how would you help incorporate best practices in diversity and inclusion as our next HR Consultant?

  • Diversity

    19. Have you ever led a workplace investigation related to discrimination, bullying, or sexual harassment?

  • Experience

    20. Are you familiar with the term 'outplacement'? Have you ever utilized outplacement services?

  • Experience

    21. Have you had to handle a company merger or consolidation at any point during your career? What role did you play if you did?

  • Experience

    22. Which workplace culture development strategies have you explored during your career as an HR professional?

  • Experience

    23. What familiarity would you bring to our team on staff surveys and evaluating survey data?

  • Leadership

    24. Have you ever led performance reviews or employee coaching sessions?

  • Leadership

    25. How would you uncover the core competencies of a candidate?

  • Leadership

    26. Tell me your most proven strategy for motivating under-performing employees.

  • Leadership

    27. What type of employees do you find most challenging?

  • Leadership

    28. What type of long-term incentive programs have you leveraged to drive employee performance?

  • Leadership

    29. How do you ensure a professional yet fair approach to disciplinary action?

  • Leadership

    30. Tell me about your exposure to team building exercises. What team building skills would you bring to our organization?

  • Management

    31. Do you have experience in mass-layoffs or terminations? What is your view on job eliminations?

  • Problem Solving

    32. Tell me about the most significant people issue you have encountered in your HR career.

  • Problem Solving

    33. We have suffered from staff burnout in recent years. What are some strategies you have used to help prevent burning out employees on the job?

  • Problem Solving

    34. If you were to encounter a new or unfamiliar situation that needed to be solved on your end here, how would you go about solving that issue?

  • Problem Solving

    35. Discuss a time when you explored organizational gaps and created new opportunities for employees.

  • Scenario Based

    36. Think about a demanding boss or coworker you've had during your career. How did you successfully interact with this person?

  • Scenario Based

    37. Have you ever had a particular circumstance where you needed to deviate from HR policy? How did you approach the dilemma?

  • Stress

    38. At times, our HR Consultants need to work on tight deadlines and short turnaround times with projects. How do you handle working under tight deadlines?

  • Tough

    39. Do you feel employees should be paid based on performance, or should they be rewarded for years of experience?

  • Tough

    40. Talk about an ethical dilemma that you had to face during your career. How did you handle that situation?