Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us about yourself and how you got into video editing?
- Which piece in your reel are you most proud of, and what was your role in it?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- Which editing tools do you use daily, and why did you settle on that stack?
- Walk us through your workflow from receiving raw footage to delivering a final export.
- How do you approach color correction and audio mixing? Where do you draw the line between fixing and reshooting?
- How do you adapt one master video into cuts for YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok?
- How do you organize footage, project files, and versions when several projects run at once?
Behavioural & culture fit
- Tell us about a time a stakeholder asked for changes you disagreed with creatively. How did you handle it?
- Describe a project with an unrealistic deadline. What did you cut from your process and what did you protect?
- How do you keep improving as an editor? What have you learned in the past year?
Problem-solving / case
- You receive two hours of poorly shot interview footage and need a compelling three-minute video by Friday. How do you approach it?
- Our social videos lose most viewers in the first five seconds. As our editor, what would you change and how would you test it?
- A client wants their 20-minute webinar turned into a series of short clips. How do you decide what to extract and how would you structure the series?
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