Tips for interviewers

Here is a list of model questions you can use when interviewing a new employee who has applied for a vacant job in your hotel.

1. Name the previous hotels for whom you have worked?

2. Tell us about your previous hotel job title, job description and your roles and responsibilities.

3. Major challenge that you have faced during job. Were you able to handle that and what you have done to solve that?

4. How many hours do you work in previous hotel job?

5. Would you prefer to work alone or in team. State the reason.

6. Tell us the time when you were not able to meet the deadline? What were the consequences?

7. How do you plan to achieve the targets?

8. How you would describe your personality and managerial skills?

9. What are your strength and weaknesses?

10. What were your hotel job expectation and how far you have achieved that.

11. What interests you about this hotel job?

12. What relevant experience do you have?

13. What do you know about this hotel?

14. What can be your contribution to improve the hotel further?

15. What other jobs are you looking for in this industry?

16. What are your goals?

17. What are your salary expectations from this hotel job?

18. What you do not like in hotel jobs and what you like the most?

19. What is your greatest achievement so far?

20. What are the qualities that one must have for managerial job?

21. Are you able to handle stress of job during peak season?

22. Are you a good team player?

23. Are you open to work in 24 x 7 environment and willing to travel?

24. Are you able to work under pressure?

25. Why should we hire you for this job?

26. Why do you want to work in this hotel?

27. Why are you leaving your previous job?

28. Where do you see yourself in next five or ten years?

29. Are you familiar with hotel industry in detail. Tell me the present scenario.

30. How long would you stay with our hotel?

Lets get real

You are a hotel manager and you want to hire a new employee. You are going to carry out a job interview.