Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us about yourself and the offices you have managed?
- What makes an office genuinely great to work in, in your experience?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- How do you manage an office budget, and how do you find savings without hurting quality?
- Walk us through how you evaluate and negotiate with a new vendor.
- How have you handled office moves, expansions, or layout changes?
- Which tools do you use for tracking supplies, requests, and maintenance?
- How do you support onboarding so a new hire's first day runs perfectly?
Behavioural & culture fit
- Tell us about a time you fixed a workplace problem no one else had noticed.
- How do you handle competing requests from different teams with limited budget?
- Describe an office event you organized that people still mention.
Problem-solving / case
- The air conditioning fails on the hottest day of the year with a client visit scheduled. What do you do?
- Leadership asks you to cut office costs by 20 percent. Where do you look first?
- The company is doubling headcount in six months. How do you prepare the office?
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