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Executives rely on administrative assistants to keep busy schedules and company activities as clear and easy to navigate as possible. Expect questions about your organisational, time-management and communication skills. Many of these questions will be story based, so come ready to explain a time when you successfully juggled multiple deadlines or were able to handle difficult customers at the front desk. Although these interviews focus primarily on soft skills, you may be asked to answer a question about your ability to use basic administrative software.

Top Administrative Assistant Interview Questions & How to Answer

Question 1

Question No. 1: Can you describe a situation in which you made an error and how you resolved the problem?

How to answer
How to answer: Everyone makes mistakes at work, even the most experienced administrative professionals. When answering a question about an error, briefly describe the situation and how the mistake happened. Emphasise what you did to resolve the error and how you will avoid that mistake in the future. Use the STAR method to describe the situation, task, action and result.
Question 2

Question No. 2: What office atmosphere do you prefer when working in an administrative assistant role?

How to answer
How to answer: Administrative assistants often serve as the face of an office, so they need to hold specific skills, including the skills required of receptionists. When answering a question about your preferred office environment, consider the atmosphere of the position for which you are interviewing. Discuss your ability to work as part of a team and interact with others.
Question 3

Question No. 3: How do you juggle multiple high-priority projects?

How to answer
How to answer: An administrative assistant might support multiple individuals who provide projects that hold a high priority level. This question helps a hiring manager determine how applicants use their judgment when managing projects and assignments and how they manage their time.

28,569 administrative assistant interview questions shared by candidates

Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife. Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated, but does not know when her own husband has. The village has a law that does not allow for adultery. Any wife who can prove that her husband is unfaithful must kill him that very day. The women of the village would never disobey this law. One day, the queen of the village visits and announces that at least one husband has been unfaithful. What happens?
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Administrative Assistant

Interviewed at Google

4.4★
Jun 25, 2013

Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife. Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated, but does not know when her own husband has. The village has a law that does not allow for adultery. Any wife who can prove that her husband is unfaithful must kill him that very day. The women of the village would never disobey this law. One day, the queen of the village visits and announces that at least one husband has been unfaithful. What happens?

Not much difficult questions, when talked with principal, just like chatting, but she would ask you very detailed information about your background and how you got visa and came to the U.S. The other part of interview in English was just like regular interview, just asked me a couple of very regular questions.
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Administrative Assistant

Interviewed at Asian-American Coalition For Education

3.5★
May 31, 2013

Not much difficult questions, when talked with principal, just like chatting, but she would ask you very detailed information about your background and how you got visa and came to the U.S. The other part of interview in English was just like regular interview, just asked me a couple of very regular questions.

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