Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us about yourself and the executives you have supported?
- What do you find most rewarding about executive support work?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- How do you manage a calendar for an executive who is chronically overbooked?
- Walk us through how you prepare an executive for a week of back-to-back meetings.
- How do you decide which requests reach the executive and which you handle yourself?
- Describe your process for planning complex international travel.
- Which tools do you rely on to stay organized, and how do you track follow-ups?
Behavioural & culture fit
- Tell us about a time you handled highly confidential information under pressure.
- Describe a moment you anticipated a problem before your executive noticed it.
- How do you build trust quickly with a new executive whose style you do not know yet?
Problem-solving / case
- Your executive's flight is cancelled the night before a critical investor meeting abroad. What do you do?
- Two board members request the same meeting slot and both claim urgency. How do you resolve it?
- You discover an email your executive asked you to send contains a factual error. It is already sent. What now?
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