20VP Marketing
Interview Questions

1. What is your greatest strength? How does it help you in marketing?

2. Give me a time when you went above and beyond the requirements for a project.

3. Where do you see yourself in five years?

4. What has made you such a successful marketer?

5. Why do you want to leave your current employer?

6. Give an example of a marketing brief you developed for a recent marketing project.

7. If I called your boss right now and asked him or her what is an area that you could improve on, what would he or she say?

8. What major challenges and problems did you face at your last position?

9. Can you give me an example of a campaign that did not work out as you had planned?

10. Tell me a time when you disagreed with your boss.

11. Tell me about a time when you influenced the outcome of a project by taking a leadership role.

12. Tell me about your most successful marketing project.

13. Give an example of how you have effectively managed a tight budget to accomplish a marketing activity.

14. What is your greatest weakness? What are you doing to improve it?

15. Why are you the best candidate for us?

16. What do you know about our company?

17. Tell me an example of a situation where you had difficulties with a team member.

18. What do you do when your time schedule or project plan is upset by unforeseen circumstances?

19. Are you able to cope with stressful situations?

20. Describe a difficult project and how you overcame it?