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What factors contribute to job stress? How do you deal with these?

Describe a situation in which you were under particularly great pressure. How did you deal with it? How

successful were you?

Under what circumstances would you take work home?

Supervision

Please summarize your supervisory experience in previous positions in terms of the number of people you

supervised and your level of responsibility (i.e. scheduling, payroll, training, coaching, performance

management, etc.)

How would you describe your ability to provide or receive feedback about work performance?

What do you do to set an example for your employees?

How do you get people who do not want to work together to establish a common approach to a problem?

Training

What techniques or approaches have you found to be the most effective when training employees?

What techniques or approaches have you found to be the most effective in motivating employees?

Team Work

Describe a time when you worked with a group of people to complete a project. What was your role? What

did you like or dislike about that experience?

What did you do in your last job to contribute toward a teamwork environment? Be specific.

Technical Ability

Give me an example of an especially difficult assignment or project. What was your role? What did you

do?

It says on your application that you have operated a personal computer. Describe a typical project on that

machine.

Describe the most significant written document, report, or presentation that you’ve completed.

How do you keep up with the changing technologies in the library field?

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