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What are the most common questions asked in project management position interviews?

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Atif Qureshi Outreach Manager| Ultahost Karachi, Pakistan
Please share your experience and practices.
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Bilal Habib Head of PMO| ADDO AI Pakistan
I have given interviews in 3 IT companies for the position of IT project manager. They mostly ask questions related to different scenarios that appear in project management process. Like for example if a resource leaves the project suddenly then what will be your mitigation plan?

How do you lead projects? Which development lifecycle do you follow?
What is project lifecycle
How do you make effective communication among project stakeholders?
How do you manage team?
How do you convey requirements to team?
Did any project fail on which you worked?
If so, then what are the causes of failure?
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GERARDO AGUILAR AGUILAR TELMEX Mexico City, Tlalpan, Mexico
if I were the interviewer, I would ask :

How are the project management related with the best practices in IT management like ITIL.
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1 reply by Justus N
Dec 26, 2018 2:17 PM
Justus N
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This would be specific to IT related projects
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Justus N Scrum Master| BCBSTX Arlington, Tx, United States
Dec 26, 2018 2:08 PM
Replying to GERARDO AGUILAR AGUILAR
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if I were the interviewer, I would ask :

How are the project management related with the best practices in IT management like ITIL.
This would be specific to IT related projects
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Most of the PM interviews I have been in as either interviewer or interviewee focused on two broad categories of questions: experiential and scenario-oriented. The former would assess the breadth & depth of a candidate's experience whereas the latter would assess what the candidate would do (or says they would do!) in a given situation.

Kiron
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Deepesh Rammoorthy ICT Project Manager ( PMP®AgilePM®Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®))| Australian Red Cross Blood Service Tarneit, Vic, Australia
Most common questions would have to be

How did you/do you manage a difficult stakeholder?
How did you/do you manage risks on your projects?
What was the most challenging project you ever managed and how did you achieve success?
How do you handle failure on a project?
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Sripriya Narayanasamy Author, Say Yes to Project Success| Director, KeyResultz Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Some of the questions you may expect..

1. Scenario-based question on managing tough stakeholders

2. Details of the project which you managed was a failure.

3. The most challenging project you ever managed. More details on how it was a challenging project

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