Director of Human Resources Interview Questions

  1. 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?
  2. Why are you interested in this position?
  3. Tell me about your last experience recruiting, interviewing, or hiring an employee.
  4. Provide an example of when you set expectations and monitored the performance of employees. What guidance and direction did you find most effective? (If performance improved, be sure to mention it.)
  5. Share an experience when you applied new technology in your job... How did it help your company?
  6. Would you consider analyzing data or information in this position? How so?
  7. Provide an example when you were able to prevent a problem because you foresaw the reaction of another person.
  8. Provide an example of a time when you were able to demonstrate excellent listening skills. What was the situation and outcome?
  9. What is your understanding of FMLA and how would you implement it in our organization?
  10. Provide an experience that demonstrates your ability to manage time effectively. What were the challenges and results?
  11. Describe a time when you successfully persuaded another person to change his/her way of thinking or behavior.
  12. Share an experience in which you handled a difficult employee problem.
  13. Tell me about a bargaining agreement you negotiated which you were happy with. How about one you were unhappy with?
  14. Share a time when you willingly took on additional responsibilities or challenges. How did you successfully meet all of the demands of these responsibilities?
  15. Describe a time when you successfully planned, organized, directed, coordinated, and controlled the personnel, training, or labor relations activities of an organization. What made you successful?
  16. Share with me an effective way you've provided employees with general information regarding policies, duties, conditions, wages, promotions, and benefits.
  17. How would you describe the condition of your employee records? What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
  18. Tell me about a time when you were the sole recruiter for a difficult-to-fill position. How did you develop candidate flow? What nontraditional means did you use to locate passive candidates? How did you communicate with these candidates to generate interest?"
  19. Tell me about a time when you developed and executed training for managers at your organization. Walk me through how you incorporated role-playing into the training, and how you displayed the skills on which you were training.
  20. List five adjectives that your co-workers would use to describe you.
  21. What do you know about our district? Describe the challenges there may be.
  22. How would you develop a diverse workforce?
  23. How would you work with principals and directors to insure quality supervision and evaluation?
  24. Describe an improvement plan for an employee you would create?
  25. What is your understanding of ACA and how would you implement it in our organization?
  26. Describe your approach to contract negations?
  27. Please tell us about your background in the field of education
  28. Please provide some specific examples of how you would go about developing a quality relationship with the principals. Speak specifically to how you would attempt to align the various levels
  29. How will you utilize disaggregated data, communicate data analysis to the Curriculum & Instruction team, and making data-driven decisions that affect instruction?
  30. How do you recruit and maintain substitutes in the district?
  31. Describe how you would design a new employee training?
  32. How will you address integrating the needs of ELL students, special education students, and gifted students when considering our staffing requirements?
  33. How would you encourage wellness for our employees?
  34. What will you hope to accomplish in your first 90 days on the job?”
  35. How would you respond to a principal requesting to transfer a teacher out of his/her building?
  36. What steps would you take to reduce employee absences?
  37. What steps would you take to reduce workers compensation claims?
  38. How do you address employee lateness?
  39. Describe a time you were involved in a sexual harassment case and how you approached it?
  40. Describe interview techniques to insure you have hired the best candidate for a position?
  41. Where you see this department five years from now?
  42. What is your approach to determine staff reductions?
  43. Describe your leadership style?
  44. How do you mentor an employee who has been in the district for many years but is not performing?
  45. Describe your approaches to building relationships with the community?
  46. How can HR improve student achievement?
  47. How do you view the current teacher evaluation procedure used by the school district? Would you change it if you could and how?
  48. Do you think social faculty functions are important? Why?
  49. What are some ways you measure an employee’s effectiveness?
  50. How do you maintain good relationships with unions?