Staffing Manager Mock Interview
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Question 8 of 35
As our next Staffing Manager, how would you keep organized and stay on track of all of your work so that it gets done on time?
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Amy Hagan is an HR Executive turned HR Consultant. She has 20+ years of experience in human resources, including HR Specialist for the US Department of Defense.
As a Staffing Manager with this organization, you will be expected to handle a large workload of recruitment efforts and other staff issues. To get a sense of how you stay organized and on track when handling competing priorities, your interviewer will pose a question like this to you during your interview. No matter how you answer this question, be sure you make it clear that you can use many resources available to you to stay on top of deadlines. As you answer, be sure to talk about your ability to be fluent in reprioritizing your work at a moment's notice because this is so commonplace in the work of a Staffing Manager.
Amy Hagan is an HR Executive turned HR Consultant. She has 20+ years of experience in human resources, including HR Specialist for the US Department of Defense.
"Time management is one of the most important aspects of recruitment. In my current role, we have several recruitments at one time, and all are high priority. I use a rubric with hiring managers to determine how essential recruitment is. We post and manage recruitments based on the rubric discussions we have with the manager. We create a recruitment contract at the beginning of the recruitment effort, and we outline all deliverable dates. I have my admin add these dates to my calendar so I can check with staff to ensure we have met all our deadlines."
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