Electrical Interview General

1. Tell me how you organize, plan, and prioritize your work.
2. Share an experience in which conferring with a client helped you to effectively meet his/her expectations. What factors do you consider when meeting with clients, e.g. budget?
3. In your experience, what is the key to developing a good team?
4. Provide an example of a time when you successfully organized a diverse group of people to accomplish a task.
5. What is the key to success when communicating with the public.
6. Share an experience in which you oversaw the assembly, fabrication, construction, maintenance, or modification of equipment. How did you communicate to the staff what you wanted?
7. Share an experience when you applied new technology or information in your job. How did it help your company?
8. Share an example of a time you had to gather information from multiple sources. How did you determine which information was relevant?
9. Please share an experience in which you presented to a group. What was the situation and how did it go?
10. Provide an example of a time when you were able to demonstrate excellent listening skills. What was the situation and outcome?
11. Describe an experience in which you reviewed and detailed shop drawings for construction plans.
12. In your experience, what is the key to ensuring your company was compliant with all laws, regulations and standards that were applicable to your area of responsibility?
13. Share an experience in which your attention to detail and thoroughness had an impact on your last company.
14. Share an experience in which you accurately estimated material requirements and cost. How about a time when your estimate was not accurate?
15. What is the most challenging part of budgeting for you?
16. Provide a time when you worked in a rapidly evolving workplace. How did you deal with the change? (Make sure the candidate is flexible.)
17. Name a time when you identified strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions to problems. What was the impact?
18. How would you rate your writing skills? (Ask for an example that demonstrates great writing skills.)
19. Share a time when you willingly took on additional responsibilities or challenges. How did you successfully meet all of the demands of these responsibilities? (Make sure the candidate is a self-starter and can demonstrate some initiative.)
20. What factors do you consider when selecting light fixtures, Electrical panels etc?
21. Share your experience using computer-aided drafting or related software to produce construction documents.
22. Share an experience in which your willingness to lead or offer an opinion helped your company.
23. What are some long-range objectives that you developed in your last job? What did you do to achieve them?
24. What is the key to a successful budget?