Interview Questions to Ask Applicants for Human Resources Profile | Fusion - WeRIndia

Here are suitable questions for your HR candidates as well as for managers and other potential employees.

You need to ask interview questions that will identify your candidate’s competencies in these critical areas.

ow capable will your candidate be as a: Strategic partner, Employee advocate, Change champion.

Because these competencies exist in addition to the other core human and employee relations, administrative, employment law, personnel, and transactional expectations of the HR professional, these questions are key to identify your most qualified candidate.

General Human Resources Interview Questions

Any experienced HR professional can claim a background and competency in implementing the core HR responsibilities such as day-to-day employee relations, personnel transactions, and recruiting employees. Ask this type of question to get at core HR skills.

• Describe the HR functions that were under your leadership and control in your most recent HR job.
• What are your favorite components of the overall HR role? What do you enjoy doing the most?
• Where did you find yourself investing the most time in your most recent HR role?
• What would you list as HR’s most significant contributions in your most recent HR department?
• Describe your experience managing and maintaining a Human Resources Information System (HRIS)? (You can ask this last question about any component of HR that was thus far not mentioned by the candidate. Or, use the question to ask about an HR component for which you need a person with experience.)

The questions are divided between questions suitable for an experienced individual and an applicant who is beginning or early in their HR career, the beginner questions would also work for the experienced professional.

Strategic Partner

For experienced candidates:

• How did the HR function have an impact your organization’s planning in your last position?

• Describe how you were able to assess the success of HR services and employee relations in your last HR position? What did you measure?
• Did you participate as a key player on your organization’s strategic planning or senior management team? How did you see your role?

For Fresher candidates:

• What do you believe is the role of the HR department in relation to the mission, vision and strategies of the business?
• How would you find out the priorities of your managers and senior managers for the provision of HR services?
• What would you measure to determine whether the HR department was doing an effective job for the company?

Employee Advocate

For experienced candidates:

• Describe the work environment that you developed for people in your last HR position. What were the key characteristics of the work environment that you were trying to maintain and reinforce?
• How did your HR department contribute to planning, creating, maintaining, and changing the corporate culture? What were your significant contributions to establishing the work environment for people?
• What programs or processes, that you developed to maintain and reinforce the work environment that you offered employees, are you most proud of contributing to or initiating?

For fresher candidates:

• What do you think are the most important roles of the HR department in relation to employees in an organization?
• What is the role of the HR department in creating the company’s work environment for people?
• If you were the decision maker, what programs for people would be your priority in an organization?

Change Champion

For experienced candidates:

• How do you go about identifying aspects of your organization, the organization’s culture, and the offerings of the HR department that need to change or improve?
• What is the role of the HR department in helping other departments identify and make changes to processes that affect their employees or customers?
• Can you tell us about a time when you helped a department make needed changes? What was the change and how did HR help identify the need for the change and the action plan. Was the intervention successful?

For fresher candidates:

• Thinking back over your college years and your job experiences, have you ever helped to initiate a change? What was the change? What was your role in making the change happen?
• How do you typically react when change is introduced that you had no part in identifying the need for or planning? Would you describe yourself as a willing participant or an early adopter? Please provide an example.

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