Program Director Interview Questions

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31 How do you stay current with news, read or record public service and promotional announcements, or perform other on-air duties?
32 Name a time when your patience was tested. How did you keep your emotions in check?
33 Tell me about your last experience recruiting, interviewing, or hiring an employee. What techniques did you find most effective in finding the right person for the job?
34 Share an experience in which personal connections to coworkers or others helped you to be successful in your work. (Make sure candidate works well with others.)
35 Name a time when you performed personnel duties, such as hiring staff and evaluating work performance.
36 What is the most challenging part of developing budgets for programming and broadcasting activities and monitoring expenditures to ensure that they remain within budgetary limits?
37 Describe methods you have found helpful to evaluate new and existing programming to assess suitability and the need for changes, using information such as audience surveys and feedback.
38 Tell me about the last time you monitored or reviewed information and detected a problem. How did you respond?
39 Tell me about the last time when you conferred with directors and production staff to discuss issues such as production and casting problems, budgets, policies, and news coverage.
40 Describe a time when you successfully persuaded another person to change his/her way of thinking or behavior.
41 Share your approach when selecting, acquiring, and maintaining programs, music, films, and other needed materials and obtain legal clearances for their use as necessary.
42 What kind of experience do you have operating and maintaining on-air and production audio equipment?
43 Provide an experience in which your ability to actively find ways to help people improved your company or your own work ethic.
44 How creative are you when it comes to developing ideas for programs and features that a station could produce?
45 Name a time when you participated in the planning and execution of fundraising activities.