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Comms-Media Interview Qs

This document contains 26 questions for applicants applying for a position in a Communications/Media Department. The questions aim to assess applicants' communication skills, experience with writing, photography, graphic design, teamwork, prioritizing, handling deadlines and pressure, as well as their understanding of integrity and representing an organization professionally. Applicants are asked to handwrite their name and numbered answers on separate paper.

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Comms-Media Interview Qs

This document contains 26 questions for applicants applying for a position in a Communications/Media Department. The questions aim to assess applicants' communication skills, experience with writing, photography, graphic design, teamwork, prioritizing, handling deadlines and pressure, as well as their understanding of integrity and representing an organization professionally. Applicants are asked to handwrite their name and numbered answers on separate paper.

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Questions for written interview for

Communications/Media Department Applicants


Please use a separate sheet of college ruled paper to hand write your answers to the following
questions. Please put your name at the top and number each answer to correspond with the
questions below.

1. How comfortable are you with talking to people on the phone?


2. Have you ever done sales work of any kind? If so, what? Do you enjoy this kind of work?
3. How many words per minute can you type?
4. Do you enjoy writing?
5. Have you written captions, news articles or blogs before?
6. Do you have any examples of your writing that you can show me?
7. Would you consider yourself a “big picture person” or a “detail person?” Please
elaborate.
8. Would you consider yourself to be a creative person?
9. How do you like to express your creativity?
10. Do you have any examples you could show me?
11. What inspires you to create?
12. Have you ever designed/drawn/produced something for someone else upon their
request?
13. How did you approach that assignment?
14. How do you handle feedback/constructive criticism of your creations?
15. How well do you work under pressure?
16. Tell me about a time you had to complete a project under pressure of a deadline.
17. How well do you feel you are able to work on a project with others in a team?
18. Can you think of an example of a time you worked with a team on a project?
19. What would you consider to be the most important quality or skill to possess in order to
be able to work together well with others? What are some other important skills?
20. Describe for me how you would handle a situation where you’re ideas for how to
accomplish a your task differ significantly from what your supervisor has in mind.
21. If you were assigned with the task of interviewing several people in order to gather
information to write an article about an event they participated in, how would you
prepare for and execute that task?
22. You need to create a graphic for an advertisement you are making. This involves using
photoshop and you don’t know how to create this effect. What would you do?
23. Suppose it is Tuesday afternoon. You have a list of tasks you hope to accomplish before
the end of the day. One task is to post a collection of about 20 photos (out of about 400
that were taken) from last weekend’s event and write captions. Another is to make an
event on the OA facebook page for Family Weekend which is just 3 weeks away (this
would entail creating a graphic for the event). Lastly, you need to edit all 40 of the
student school portraits so that the photo packages can be ordered in the morning.
Could you describe to me in as detailed a manner possible, how you would prioritize
these tasks, the length of time you feel each one would take, how you would go about
doing each task and your rational.
24. How do you understand confidentiality as it relates to working in the communications
department?
25. How might your personal choices, persona and reputation affect the reputation of the
school via your professional involvement through your position or job in
communications? Please elaborate.
26. Why is your Integrity critical for working in this department?

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