Executive Interview Questions

Having recruited at the executive level, I thought I would share some of my favorite interview questions I have used in the past.

• Tell me a significant mistake you have made in rolling out a new business strategy?
• What type of decisions are most difficult for you to make?
• What have you done to develop/grow your team?
• Describe a major decision you made this year that affect your companies overall strategy?
• What three qualities does a ".........fill in the position...." require in order to be successful?
• What has been your biggest success in developing someone? What did you do?
• How do you get your team to work at it's peak potential
• Give me an example of how you handled risk?
• What metrics do you use to track your organization?
• Describe a decision you made, that looking back, you would do it differently if given another chance?
• What have you done for your current company that you will be remember for?
• What would you do in the first 90 days?

Obviously I am not the creator of most of these questions, I just have found them to be very effective when interview executives .

Hope they help.