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What made you apply for this position? What will motivate you to do this job? Salary shouldn’t be the motivation. The candidate should see this job as a good fit, something he or she would love to do. The candidate should be motivated to grow the business, not just execute tasks. 35 min: Job-specific knowledge Ability to motivate people Evaluation criteria Answer and score (1-5) Tell me about a time when you had to make someone enthusiastic about your idea or problem so they would want to help you? We don’t need pushy sales people.
We need someone empathic who will understand the motivations of others and Background Remove Service present them something they like. Managing others (time) Imagine you are managing an expert who repeatedly does not deliver by the deadline? How would you handle that? Follow up a couple of times trying to understand the obstacle that’s preventing the expert from doing his job. If it repeats 3-4 times, terminate the assignment. Imagine you are managing 20 experts. Which actions would you take to make sure they deliver as promised? Wrong answer is hiring more people to do the same thing you were doing with one person. Right answer is documenting, tracking and measuring everything, and using reminders. How about if you are managing 200 experts? Similar to the previous question, but thinking out of the box on procedures and automation.

What tools did you use in project management before? What part of project management can be replaced with tools, and what part requires personal contact? We don’t want a manager who is doing everything by personal communication: emails, phone calls, and meetings. We want someone who is using tools such as Assembla, Jira, Trello, PipeDrive etc. to increase productivity and transparency. A good candidate will know why a certain tool is best for a certain job. Analytical, data-driven Let’s say your task is to create an automated test for Russian proofreaders. How would you do that? One solution is to find a perfect Russian text and then introduce N errors in it. The algorithm would check if the parts with errors were changed.
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