Friday

Recruitment Interview Question & Answer

  1. CAN YOU TELL ME A LITTLE ABOUT YOURSELF?
  2. What is your greatest professional achievement? 
  3. What is the difference between W2 and C2C?
  4. What is your roles and responsibility in last company?
  5. Why are you changing your job too often? What are you looking for in your next job?
  6. What do you know about the company?
  7. Why do you want this job?
  8. Why should we hire you?
  9. I think you are week in communication so can you perform well?
  10. How did you hear about the position?
  11. Were you getting requirements through VMS or through Manager? 
  12. What attracts you in US IT Recruitment? Why you want to grow in recruitment?
  13. Why a BOOLEAN search required?
  14. What is US IT staffing?   
  15. What are the responsibilities of US IT Recruiter? 
  16. What are the purposes and benefits of an application tracking system?
  17. How can I succeed as an IT recruiter? What is the secret of success of technical recruiters?
  18. Have you sourced passive candidates? How?
  19. What are the biggest challenges for tech recruiters today?
  20. How can I tell if the candidate is a fake or a genuine one, in US IT staffing?
  21. What is PO in US IT recruitment?
  22. Can you explain who is a recruiter, business development manager and accounts manager?
  23. Sitting in India, how you are able to interact with US candidates?
  24. If you are leaving early, how could you talk to a candidate in California? 
  25. What is the nature of your previous company's business? 
  26. What sources were you using to Close Niche roles?
  27. What kind of positions were you getting (Contract /C2H/ Fulltime)?
  28. What is your current Salary? What are your expectations?
  29. Do you have a laptop and internet to work from home until COVID issue is resolved? Are you willing to work 100% in office after COVID issue is resolved?.
  30. What is your notice period in current company? Is your notice period negotiable & up to how many days?
  31. 28. What are the tough requirements to source?
  32. 29. What are the different ways by which you source resumes?
  33. 30. What is the first step you do after sourcing a resume ?
  34. 32. How you will search in Google for any requirement? Have you worked on social networking websites for sourcing requirements? Which one is effective?
  35. What is the procedure you follow for sourcing resumes in Linked in? 
  36. What are the job boards you have used so far? Which job board is better? What is the reason for that?
  37. 35. How will you post a position on monster? 
  38. 36. How will you post a position on Dice?
  39. 37. How will you post a position on career builder?
  40. 38. How much we have to pay, when you subscribe for US job board.
  41. 39.  Terms of US Employment? 
  42. 40. What Does Corp To Corp Mean for an Independent Contractor?
  43. 41. How much % of requirements you worked on were W2 only and how much % were C2C/1099?
  44. 42. Can a foreign entity (client) from US transfer money to India (vendor)? 
  45. 43. Tell me names of STATES IN US? 
  46. 44. What is Requirement?
  47. 45. What are the different types of searches?
  48. 46. What are recruitment rule of staffing company?
  49. 47. on which technologies, you can technically interview the candidate. 
  50. 48. What are the technologies that you have worked on?
  51. 49. What is the difference between java and .Net? 
  52. 50. The difference between ‘front end’, ‘back end’ and ‘full stack’ web development
  53. How you will search java developer?
  54. Have you worked on cloud Positions?
  55. What are difference between waterfall and agile?
  56. Have you worked on cyber security position?
  57. Have you worked on QA Tester position?
  58. How will you search for Service now consultant?
  59. How will you search for SAP consultant?
  60. Have you worked on DevOps engineer position?
  61. Is there any difference between data analytic s and ETL development? 
  62. What is the difference between a data architect, database developer, data engineer, and ETL developer? 
  63. How you will search ETL Developer?
  64. How you will Search for Business Architect?
  65. How you will source resumes for Business Analyst Requirement?
  66. How you will search for iOS Developer?
  67. How you will source a python develop?
  68. How you will Search for IT project Manager? How you will Search for scrum Master? What is the difference between a scrum master and a project manager?
  69. 10 If the start date for 20 new mainframe developers is 6 months from now, what strategies you will follow to close those 20 positions? 
  70. How much do we have to pay when you subscribe to the Indian job board?
  71. If you search in Job Board and if you don't get the right resume that you want, how you will expand your search in Job Boards?
  72. What are the parameters by which you source resumes on the job board? Full Time and Corp to Corp: Have you worked on full time requirements on W2?
  73. Even though you are a recruitment lead or recruitment head, how many closures you have done by your own?
  74. If requirements from direct clients are provided, how many closures you can do in a month?
  75. is the gross margin (one-time service fee) for full time requirements paid by the client?
  76. When that service feed will be paid by the client?
  77. What is the minimum and maximum gross margin for corp to corp closures?
  78. Have you interacted with the hiring managers of the client?
  79. What are the different requirements you worked with your current client and with your previous client? How many talent acquisition leaders you know? Can you get requirements from those clients?
  80. Can you bag orders from direct clients?
  81. By which tax term, employee takes care of all taxes in USA?
  82. Are you familiar with tax related laws in India?
  83. Can you do business development in US?
  84. Can you get requirements from direct clients from US?
  85. Can you get requirements from direct clients from India?
  86. What are the challenges you have faced in US market?
  87. What are the difficult situations you have faced in recruiting and how you handled it?
  88. What not to talk with the candidate:
  89. How you lead a team?
  90. How you will work as recruitment head or recruitment lead or a recruitment manager in a fast paced recruiting environment?
  91. How do you remember the candidate details, when submitted for a requirement?
  92. How you will work on requirements?
  93. What Talent Management Software you have used So far? For purpose you have used that?
  94. Why are you interested in working here?
  95. What are your strengths?
  96. What are your development areas?
  97. Where do you see yourself in five years?
  98. What has been the best position you’ve held and why?
  99. Can you give me an overview about yourself in recruitment?
  100. What is your current CTC (Cost to Company) and expected CTC?
  101. What is your availability?
  102. What is the reason for change? How do you rate yourself in different areas (roles and responsibilities) in end to end recruitment process?
  103. What is your current role in your present organization?
  104. Up to What time you will work for us?
  105. What is the current turnover of your present company?
  106. How many employees are working in your company? How many are full time and on contracting?
  107. How did you come to know about this opportunity with our company?
  108. Why do you want to join in our company?
  109. How you will add value to our company?
  110. How you will brand our company?
  111. Have you gone through our website? What you understood about us?
  112. What are the technologies that you have worked on?
  113. What is your accomplishment as a technical recruiter?
  114. On which technologies, you can technically interview the candidate?
  115. On which technologies, you can interview the candidate from recruitment perspective?
  116. How you will source resumes for Business Analyst Requirement?
  117. If the start date for 20 new mainframe developers is 6 months from now, what strategies you will follow to close those 20 positions? What is your accomplishment as a recruiter?
  118. In the best part of your accomplishment, what are the technologies and title for which you closed those positions? How many requirements you can effectively work on one business day?
  119. How many resumes you can submit in a week for different requirements?
  120. If the client is taking 3 weeks to close a requirement, how many resumes you will source for that requirement?
  121. What are the tough requirements to source?
  122. What are the different ways by which you source resumes?
  123. What is the first step you do after sourcing a resume (overview)?
  124. Why a BOOLEAN search is needed?
  125. How you will use BOOLEAN search for this requirement?
  126. Have you sourced passive candidates? How?
  127. How you will search in Google for this requirement? Have you worked on social networking websites for sourcing requirements? Which one is effective?
  128. What is the procedure you follow for sourcing resumes in Linked In? What are the job boards you have used so far?
  129. Which job board is better? What is the reason for that?
  130. How much we have to pay, when you subscribe for US job board?
  131. How much we have to pay, when you subscribe for Indian job board?
  132. If you search in Job Board and if you don't get the right resume that you want, how you will expand your search in Job Boards?
  133. What are the parameters by which you source resumes on job board? Full Time and Corp to Corp: Have you worked on full time requirements on w2?
  134. Have you worked on corp-corp requirements?
  135. Even though you are a recruitment lead or recruitment head, how many closures you have done by your own?
  136. If requirements from direct clients are provided, how many closures you can do in a month?
  137. is the gross margin (one-time service fee) for full time requirements paid by the client?
  138. When that service feed will be paid by the client?
  139. What is the minimum and maximum gross margin for corp to corp closures? Immigration: What is the difference between i-797, i-797A, i797B, and i797C? Have you interacted with the hiring managers of the client?
  140. What are the different requirements you worked with your current client and with your previous client? How many talent acquisition leaders you know? Can you get requirements from those clients?
  141. Can you bag orders from direct clients? By which tax term, employee takes care of all taxes in USA?
  142. Can a foreign entity (client) from US transfer money to India (vendor)? Are you familiar with tax related laws in India? Can you do business development in US? Can you get requirements from direct clients from US?
  143. Can you get requirements from direct clients from India? What are the challenges you have faced in US market?
  144. What are the difficult situations you have faced in recruiting and how you handled it?
  145. What not to talk with the candidate: What are the questions that should not be asked with a candidate? Leading a team: How you lead a team?
  146. How you will work as recruitment head or recruitment lead or a recruitment manager in a fast paced recruiting environment?
  147. How do you remember the candidate details, when submitted for a requirement?
  148. How you will work on requirements?
  149. What Talent Management Software you have used So far? For purpose you have used that?
  150. What type of work environment do you prefer?
  151. What is the reason for change? How do you rate yourself in different areas (roles and responsibilities) in end to end recruitment process?
  152. What's your management style?
  153. What's a time you exercised leadership?
  154. What's a time you disagreed with a decision that was made at work?
  155. How would your boss and co-workers describe you?
  156. Why was there a gap in your employment?
  157. Can you explain why you changed career paths?
  158. How do you deal with pressure or stressful situations?
  159. What would your first 30, 60, or 90 days look like in this role?
  160. What are your salary requirements?
  161. What is your accomplishment as a technical recruiter? What is your accomplishment as a recruiter? In the best part of your accomplishment, what are the technologies and title for which you closed those positions?
  162. What do you like to do outside of work?
  163. If you were an animal, which one would you want to be?
  164. Are you planning on having children?
  165. What do you think we could do better or differently?
  166. Do you have any questions for us?
  167. Why are you interested in working here?
  168. What are your strengths?
  169. What are your development areas?
  170. Where do you see yourself in five years?
  171. What has been the best position you’ve held and why?
  172. Can you give me an overview about yourself in recruitment?
  173. What is your current CTC (Cost to Company) and expected CTC?
  174. What is your availability?
  175. What is your current role in your present organization?
  176. What is the current turnover of your present company?
  177. How many employees are working in your company? How many are full time and on contracting?
  178. How did you come to know about this opportunity with our company?
  179. Why do you want to join in our company?
  180. How you will add value to our company?
  181. How you will brand our company?
  182. Have you gone through our website? What you understood about us