Healthcare Project Manager Interview Questions
Go Back1. This concludes our interview. Do you have any questions for me?
2. Do you consider yourself as someone direct and forthright with others?
3. How do you maintain a good relationship with your director, the board, and other healthcare executives?
4. Have you ever received negative feedback from a director, and if so, how did you handle it?
5. The healthcare project manager plays a critical role in our organization. How can we motivate you as a leader, keeping you engaged in the job?
6. If you notice that a project is off track, what action steps do you take to course correct?
7. In your opinion, what are the most prominent signs that a project is off track?
8. Healthcare projects often have tight targets, and missing a cutoff can be very costly. How do you react when your team misses a deadline?
9. A healthcare project manager must be an agile problem solver. In your opinion, what does it take to be a great problem solver?
10. When change occurs in the workplace, it can create new problems. Do you see these as inconvenient problems or opportunities to learn?
11. How do you explain complicated PM concepts to someone who may not understand?
12. What do you understand to be the primary responsibilities of a healthcare project manager?
13. During the initiation phase of a project, how do you perform cost estimation and anticipate challenges and solutions to solve them?
14. If hired, your first project would be an expansion of the emergency department. What outside agencies would you need to contact to facilitate this expansion?
15. If you were responsible for hiring new employees for our hospital's project, what qualities would you look for in a candidate, and do you think you possess those qualities?
16. In your position now, knowing what you do, what would you say to someone who is just beginning a career in the healthcare field?
17. Why did you choose a career as a healthcare project manager?
18. What stage of project management do you feel you are the strongest?
19. What project management methodology do you most prefer; Waterfall, Agile, or Scrum? Explain your reasoning.
20. What healthcare project management software do you prefer to use?
21. What do you like to do in your free time?
22. How many team members do you have experience managing? Include their job titles and the extent of your leadership involvement.
23. Have you ever worked on a project that spanned the course of a few years?
24. What gives you the most satisfaction working as a project manager in the healthcare industry?
25. Why are you interested in working for a public company rather than a private company?
26. Which resources do you lean on to stay in the know on the rules, regulations, and quality standards of the healthcare industry?
27. We seek to hire a healthcare project manager with formal education in health administration, health management, nursing, public health administration, or business administration. Do you have a related advanced degree?
28. Do you have formal Six Sigma or Lean Six Sigma training? If not, are you open to exploring options towards Six Sigma Certification?
29. Are you PMP certified? If not, are you interested in gaining this designation?
30. As a healthcare project manager, what do you find to be the most challenging aspect of leading your current team?
31. Highlight your top leadership qualities for me and how they benefit you as a healthcare project manager.
32. How do you go about assessing your team members' strengths and delegating work to each member of your project team?
33. Our facility recently experienced a merger and subsequent downsizing. Since then, our employee morale has been at an all-time low. How would you improve employee morale if offered the position?
34. For our next project, travel will be required 75% of the time. If hired, are you available to travel that often?
35. Will working overtime be an issue for you if hired?
36. How do you ensure the budgetary health of a project?
37. Suppose a cardiology department head approached you about funding a clinical trial for myocarditis. What is your process before approving funding a clinical trial?
38. Describe your project management style and how you feel it will benefit our organization.
39. Have you ever experienced conflict on the job? If so, how was it handled?
40. How comfortable are you performing duties related to negotiation and conflict resolution? Give an example of a time when you resolved an issue in the workplace.