Director service management Interview Questions
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Director Service Management interview questions shared by candidates
The role play case was the following and needs some degree of diplomacy.Please be very careful here as slip could be construed as bad stakeholder management. Please refer below to the role play case. You have been appointed project manager of a project that has gone over budget and is also going over schedule soon. Your task is not to make tall promises as the organization that has appointed you clearly doesn't want you to promises more resources. The client is very unhappy and you need to meet and convince him with a plan
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My responsibility was to set up framework to manage and control project schedule, monitoring progress, ensuring project is within the decided budget and timeframe, calculating best estimate numbers for the project and account and report it to senior leadership, tracking variance in projected and month end financials, managing margins for the project, preparing numerous reports, business documentation, etc. Less
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Be careful as the VP is judging you by your performance. You don't have to act. You just have to be your normal self. Less
About past experience, how will i contribute to this company
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Gave examples and spoke about my ambitions
How do you feel about customer interaction?:
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I am very comfortable with direct customer interaction.
What would your boss say are your weaknesses?
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The in-person interviewer grossly misinterpreted my answer and proceeded to grill me about my 'weakness' (I said I struggle not taking criticism personally which he took as 'you take criticism personally and you're an emotional woman'), outlining all the reasons I wasn't a good fit for the job because of this one answer. Less
1. Tell Me about the Company ? 2. Accounts Related Questions - Accounting Standards (AS - 7 and AS-9) 3. Market - Crude Oil Price ? 4. Many Questions picked from resume itself
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1. Answers available stright from Companies Website 2. Specific to question 3. I gave a range ( Which was close enough to correct answer) Less
