Remote Worker: Interview Guide
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This interview guide is intended to be used in conjunction with the Vervoe skills assessment. Where a candidate has scored Low - Medium on a skill, focus on asking more questions from that skill to gain deeper insight into their level of competency.
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Communication with remote work can sometimes be challenging due to not physically working with your teammates. How would you (or have you in the past) maintain effective and up to date communication with your teammates and managers?
How would you manage or communicate issues when you’re working remotely? |
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Time Management / Organisation |
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How do you manage your time when you're always at home/work?
What tools do you use to manage your time when you don’t physically have an office to go to work for?
Working with remote teams often means that you are reliant on other people to complete work within a specified timeframe to enable you to do your own. How would you hold yourself, and others, accountable to timeframes?
How do you keep track of concurrent projects and deadlines?
What software have you used in terms of videoconferencing or remote working? |
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Remote working means that a lot of the team keeps different hours and potentially different time zones. Sometimes you will need answers or assistance in times where there is no one available. Tell me about a time where you have had a problem that you had to troubleshoot on your own.
How do you keep up with industry news?
How do you motivate yourself when you don’t have people working around you or checking up on the progress of projects?
What do you think would be the biggest challenge of remote working? How would you overcome this? |
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Work preferences |
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What kind of hours do you work when you are working remotely?
Are you more productive in the morning or afternoons?
Do you have experience working remotely? Tell me about it.
Working remotely often entails meetings with stakeholders in different time zones. How would you manage this with your own?
Sometimes there can be a fine line between work and time-off when working remotely. How do you set boundaries to ensure that you can also switch off if you’re always ‘at work’? |
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Adaptable |
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Describe a time where you have had to make a decision based on limited information. This is often the case with remote work as your colleagues work in different time zones.
Sometimes things change very quickly in this business and with remote working, decisions can be made overnight that can change the direction of the work you’re doing. Tell me about a time where a project or your role has quickly changed direction and how did you deal with it? |
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