US Department of Veterans Affairs Human Resources Specialist Interview Questions

Easy process. If you have worked HR before, the questions are all related to HR. This would include, recruitment and placement, benefits, retirement. Have you worked within USA staffing? How often? Explain the functions you used? Government systems.

It was a panel of 2 people (the HR supervisor and the Asst Director of HR). It consisted of 10 behaviorial questions and about 3 questions specific to the HR field. For example, "Tell me about a time when you dealt with a difficult co-worker; How did you handle it? What was the outcome?"

This was an interview at the hospital. I want to make that most clear. It took a month after the position closed to be interviewed. This was a 3 person panel phone interview. The questions were not specific to the human resources field. I asked at the end of the interview how long it would take to hear back and was told a week. Two months latter I received a non-selection interview. Their lack of respect to respond within their own time limits made me wonder how honest an environment I would be working in. It made me question their organization, work ethic, culture, and respect for their coworkers . I am not sure if offered the position I would have accepted it. Interestingly enough another position was posted after I was informed I was not selected. I am a disabled Veteran with a master's degree in Human Resources and hr experience. The result was I didn't apply. The point of applying in the first place was to use my degree and have the opportunity to move up a GS level.

Phone interview with a panel of 5. All of thr questions were STAR (behavioral) questions. I also had to do a PowerPoint presentation on the topic of my choice for the panel. Everything was done on Skype (they could see me but I could not see them).

Applied for position took sometime to hear back from recruiter. When I finally did the recruiter was polite and explained that they had several interviews taking place at the same time and was looking to find the best fit for my skills.

a panel interview with 3 people as they asked 10 behavioural questions and each questions had several parts to it. Each person rotated questions like a round robin.

Applied online and received a call approximately one month later for a telephone interview. Was called two days later to schedule a face-to-face interview.

Performance Based Interviewing (PBI) is a selection process that uses interviewing techniques to ask job applicants questions about the knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics (KSAOs) they have that are important in order for them to do a good job. Studies show that the way people behave in the past is probably the way they will behave in the future. PBI questions ask job applicants to tell about what they did (their behavior) in the past. When deciding who is the best applicant, the interviewer will look at the degree to which each applicant possesses the important knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics necessary for successful job performance.

Phone interview. 10 questions. They wanted to know about the experience and whether I had any. They wanted to know why I chose government employment they wanted to know what my academic background was and if I would like to work in the federal government. They wanted to know if I was happy doing the type of work they chose.

Interview process should have been my first warning, and last. Inexperience was evident. Bureaucratic mess of an interview. Typical questions about self and years of experience read from a script where they each took turns reading from the script. Be as detailed as possible when asked a question. No follow-up questions were offered. When nterviewed, give specifics and do not ramble.