27Personal Assistant Interview Questions & Answers
1.What personal assistant experience do you have? What were your common tasks?
2.Why do you want to be my Personal Assistant?
3.What tasks do you dislike most?
4.Why do you want to leave your current job?
5.What are your strengths?
6.Why should we hire you?
7.What are your career goals?
8.How are your communication skills?
9.How do you stay motivated?
10.What are the most important qualities to have as a personal assistant?
11.What type of personalities do you work best with?
12.Describe yourself in three words.
13.Are you a patient person? When has your patience really shown in the work place?
14.You have been asked to set up a meeting. What actions will you take?
15.Tell me about a time you had to multi-task. How comfortable are you handling more than one task at a time?
16.Do you understand the role of this position? Why do you think you will excel as an assistant?
17.What experience do you have helping someone with a disability?
18.What is the most challenging task you have completed as a personal assistant?
19.What personal assisting tasks do you feel you are exceptionally good at?
20.Do you enjoy socializing with your clients?
21.When starting work for a new client, what are a few things you like to do to get to know the person and make them feel comfortable with you around?
22.When have you had to set aside your own personal way of doing things in order to better help a client?
23.When have you shown a great deal of patience when working with a client?
24.Have you ever been rejected by a client before? How did this make you feel? How did you bounce back from that?
25.When have you had a misunderstanding with a client? How did you two resolve the issue?
26.How do you try to avoid misunderstandings with your client?
27.Sometimes personalities can clash. When have you had to modify or change your behavior to prevent a personality clash with a client?
