Project Manager Interview questions in Ireland
As a project manager, it is your job to oversee the creation and execution of company projects and ensure that all team members stay on track to meet deadlines. Expect interview questions that will assess your ability to lead a group and communicate effectively to members with different roles and varying concerns. As the scope, schedule and cost of a project can change frequently, the interviewer may ask you to role-play a few scenarios in which a project deadline changes or several group members leave the company.
Top Project Manager Interview Questions & How to Answer
Here are three top project manager machine operator interview questions and tips on how to answer them:
Question No. 1: Can you tell me about a time when your stakeholders disagreed with you on a project?
How to answer: Dealing with conflict is expected in a project management role. Strong candidates need to demonstrate how they help to foster cooperation and collaboration among all parties involved in a project. Describe situations in which you acted as a mediator, focusing on the actions you took in response and the results of your actions. Use the STAR (situation, task, action, result) method when describing the disagreement and how you achieved a resolution.
Question No. 2: What is your approach to strategic project management?
How to answer: A project manager needs to have a strategy for managing tasks and keeping others on schedule with their work. When answering this question, it is helpful to describe a situation in which you applied your strategic management method, took action and maintained that strategy for various projects. Explain how you reached your project goals.
Question No. 3: Has a project that you managed ever failed?
How to answer: Discussing your failures may be challenging in an interview, but hiring managers ask this question to understand your potential weaknesses and areas for improvement. Try to keep the conversation positive by talking about how you turned a project around, made changes during the course of a project or improved the outcome.
You have a bouquet of flowers. All but two are roses, all but two are daisies, and all but two are tulips. How many flowers do you have?
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3 flowers - 1 rose, 1 daisy and 1 tulip
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The solution is quite simple, if you start with the “All but 2” first: Roses = All but 2 = Two flowers are not a rose; one tulip, one daisy Daisies = All but 2 = Two flowers are not a daisy; one rose, one tulip Tulips = All but 2 = Two flowers are not a tulip; one rose, one daisy Answer: One rose, one daisy, one tulip. Less
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I would say, "Do you consider three flowers to be a bouquet?"
Pepsi or coke?
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Water!
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Coke, please. And a bourbon chaser to go with it. Thanks. ;>)
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Personally, I can't tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi and I try to limit my consumption of soft drinks because they are unhealthy. If you compare the ingredients in in a can of Coke vs. a can of Pepsi, they are essentially the same, but everybody has their particular brand affiliation. That's really where these beverage producers excel: branding. And I think UnitedHealth could learn a lot from Coke and Pepsi in terms of branding and PR. The insurance industry in general isn't always seen in the best light and I think that's something I could really help with, marketing UnitedHealth's services so that customers have the same positive feelings they do towards Coke and Pepsi. Less
What's the color of money???....
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An 80's movie about Pool hustlers staring Paul Newman and Tom Cruise.
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(Well played, Chad.) (Well played, Chad...)
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its rainbow color; when you have it, it shows your colors to others around you; when you don't, it shows colors of others around you. Less
An apple costs 20 cents, an orange costs 40 cents and a grapefruit costs 60 cents, how much is a pear?
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This question is meant to be asked verbally so what you hear is Pear but what they mean is PAIR. So the issue is can you think beyond past paterns or are you predisposed to thinking linearly. Oh yeah... a pair is 2. Less
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After reading this thread, I have decided not to continue with the interview process. What a bunch of stupid crap. Seriously? This is how they determine who can execute a project and give excellent customer service. SMH! Less
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your numbers are off a bit..its apple = 40 orange = 60 grapefruit = 80..the answer is 40 cents because its 20 cents per vowel in the word...tricky but right... Less
Quelles sont les valeurs de l'entreprise?
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Bởi vì tôi ưu thích công việc này
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Chào mưng fbajn đã đến với công ty
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Difference between Risk and Issues in Project Management
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Risk is something you anticipate in Project whereas Issue is something that is already happened in Project Less
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Risk is something that can happen in future while issue is a current event, something that has already happened. Risk may or may not occur but issue is a problem that has already occurred. Issues tend to need a more reactive responses while Risks require proactive planning. Risk can be predictable and will be preventable. But if there is an issue, its cause of bad planning and execution. Less
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? Issue- potential to impact – have a plan to mitigate. (Is a "Known") ? Risk – We can devise plans to mitigate but no expected ETA.(several unknowns)- Also Risk can become an opportunity Less
How many minutes before 5pm is it if 30 mins ago it was four times as many minutes after 3pm?
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The answer is 18 minutes. It made sense to me to sketch a timeline showing the 3 components of time given in the problem that add up to the 120 minute total span. (X = minutes before 5pm, 30 min gap, and 4X is time between 3pm and the start of the 30 min gap.) Visually and chronologically it would look something like: 3pm --> 4X --> 30 min --> X --> 5pm. So then algebraically, the equation is 4X + 30 min + X = 120 min. Therefore 5X = 90 or X = 18. Less
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18 mins before 5 = 4:42. 30 before 4:42 puts the time at 4:12. There are 72 minutes between 3 and 4:42 divided by 4 is 18. So the answer is 18 mins before 5pm. Less
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That last explanation seems like you need to know the answer before you even start trying to solve. My solution is as follows: 30 minutes before 5 is 4:30 leaving 90 minutes between 3 and then. The remaining time needs to be split into an interval so that x4 exists. The most logical interval would be in 5ths because the 4 proceeding intervals would be 4x greater then the following. 90/5=18 for each interval. 18 being four times less then 72 minutes proceeding it. This literally look me about a minute and a half to reason through, which I'm assuming the interviewer would not want to sit through. Guess I would fail. Less
An apple costs 40 cents, a banana costs 60 cents, and grapefruit costs 80 cents. Under the same circumstances, how much does a pear cost?
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40 cents... it's 20 cents per vowel, not 10.
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40 cents. 20 cents for each cents.
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I would ask the interviewer to rank his fruit in order of what his favorite was. If a pear was his favorite I would charge 20% price increase on the grapefruit, which would put the pear at 96 cents. If he is willing to pay for grapefruit at 80 cents but he would rather have a pear, he would most likely be happy to purchase the pear at a margin increase. Pricing depends on the who, why, and where of sell/buying the product. "Under the same circumstances” can be taken creatively or mathematically depending on how you look at the circumstances. There is no right or wrong answer, it a question to see how your mind works when asked to solve a problem. I base the circumstances on the environment, the people and problem on hand. So I would want to understand more about why he wanted to know how much a pear cost, whether he was hungry, if it was for him, ect… and then appropriately price the pear based on the demand of the individual the environment and the situation. Less
goals, aspirations, plans, motivation, abilities
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Require every goal tech every point to point and smoothly handle to reach your goal Less
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Standard products every small and require point handle carefully
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Every work challenge and part of every man that's why inprastion to every to
What do you think of the team?
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team is a group of people with different ideas working on a common goal
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the team is a group of people who help each other to make the company success
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Working a project, a functional team is the one major key to success.