31Residential Advisors Interview Questions & Answers
1.Why do you want to be an RA?
2.What activities would you create for your residents?
3.If you notice your residents are not participating in your activities, what would you do?
4.How would you handle a fight amongst your residents?
5.What does diversity mean to you?
6.Are you a patient person?
7.What is leadership to you?
8.Tell me about a major problem you recently handled. Were you successful in resolving it?
9.Do you work well in high stress and pressure situations?
10.What is your greatest strength?
11.What is your greatest weakness? What are you doing to improve it?
12.What were your reasons for selecting our college or university?
13.How was your college experience?
14.If you could change or improve anything about your college, what would it be?
15.Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
16.Share an effective method you have used to enforce rules and regulations.
17.Tell me how you organize, plan, and prioritize your work.
18.Why are you the best person for this position?
19.Provide an example when your ethics were tested.
20.Do others respect and listen to you?
21.Provide an experience in which your observation of a student helped you to identify unusual behavior.
22.Describe for me a time when you failed at something and how you responded.
23.Tell me about an organization or group outside of work that you contributed to.
24.When planning, how often do you create alternative scenarios to help you adjust to changing situations?
25.What are your salary expectations?
26.Who would you say inspires you?
27.After receiving information from your supervisor, how do you ensure you properly communicate this information to your team?
28.What work situations excite and motivate you?
29.Would you consider yourself a creative person?
30.Tell me about yourself.
31.In five minutes or less, pick a topic you are passionate about, but isn't something I should know of, and explain it to me.
