Emergency Management Director Interview Questions

1 Share an experience in which your ability to consider the costs or benefits of a potential action helped you choose the most appropriate action.
2 Provide an example in which collaboration with other officials to prepare for an emergency helped you improve an emergency procedure program.
3 What is the most challenging part of budgeting for you?
4 Name a time when your advice to management led to an improvement in your company or otherwise helped your employer.
5 Please share with me an example of how you helped coach or mentor someone. What improvements did you see in the person's knowledge or skills?
6 Provide an example of when you set expectations and monitored the performance of subordinates. What guidance and direction did you find most effective?
7 Describe an experience in which you identified the educational needs of your students and successfully developed a way to teach/train them.
8 In your experience, what is the key to developing a good team? (Look for how they build mutual trust, respect, and cooperation.)
9 Provide an example of a time when you successfully organized a diverse group of people to accomplish a task.
10 What is the key to success when communicating with the public.
11 Describe a time when you successfully provided personal assistance to a coworker or patron.
12 Share an experience you had in dealing with a difficult person and how you handled the situation.
13 Share an experience in which you successfully shared a difficult piece of information. (Make sure that the candidate has open lines of communication.)
14 Tell me how you organize, plan, and prioritize your work.
15 What are some long-range objectives that you developed in your last job? What did you do to achieve them?