Describe your ideal manager.
Interviewers will ask this question to assess how you'll respond to supervision if you're hired. They'll try to determine whether you have any issues with authority to determine how well you'll work within the company's management framework.
Check out the company's website, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube before the interview to try to get clues about the company's general management style. Talk about your past jobs to demonstrate how you've worked well with former managers and supervisors. Be direct, get to the point, and then conclude by sharing an example, and/or explaining why you work well under a variety of different management and leadership styles.
"I enjoy working under a manager or supervisor who gives me the ability to make decisions and trusts my work, but I've also worked for supervisors who check in quite often and have more of a hands-on approach to leadership, so I'm okay with that as well. I try to adapt to the organization and adjust my work to add value to whatever style of the company I'm in and how my manager prefers I work."
