Project Director Interview Questions

This questions was far too open ended and non-specific.

By PMI-MN, I take it you are referring to the Project Management Institute of Minnesota - I whole heartedly support the organization and the ability to assimilate new methods and knowledge networking through this and similar bodies.

PMI as an organization is useful and membership demonstrates a commitment to staying up with industry best practice; however, I will openly state that the PMP itself has become an irritant and created a false hiring environment. Most contractors seem to feel every project must have a PM assigned who has a PMP. Most employers seem to feel that this is a necessary requirement. Between this and the availability of PMP training at most community colleges, we are now faced with a burgeoning population of largely unskilled "Project Managers" who are not worth their weight in weekly reports. They generally fail to understand true project ownership, are perfectly willing to allow projects to fail so long as they can point the finger, and add little more than an over-inflated rate to my billings. Companies need to find more rigorous qualifications and interview techniques and stop relying on the PMP as a qualifer. By relying primarilly on the PMP as a qualifier, as employers, we are participating in cost inflation that does not bring value to our objectives.

To integrate all the components towards our common goal.

"If you review my resume, I think you'll find that I have quite a bit of experience directly relevant to this position. Let me refer you to this project"...

I talked about how the employee had many chances to improve and but the time she was terminated a paper trail was established documenting the repeated problems we had with her.

Described the scenario in detail. Follow up questions probed on your corrective actions.

How did you feel about the difficulty of the online screening tests for verbal and quantitative ability? Were you able to finish all 30 verbal and 18 quant questions in the allocated time?

Asked to shake thing up a bit and to see if an attempt will be made to answer.