Seeking Help with HR Interview Questions: Can You Share Your Insights?

Respected Seniors, Greetings to All! Here are some interview questions regarding HR. Please help me in finding out the answers to these questions:


• What is human resource management?
• What do you prefer: recruitment or selection?
• How do you motivate your employees?
• What is more important to you: money or position?
• How do you define empowerment?
• How can you make use of IT in HRM?
• Suggest a training program/workshop for feedback skills.
• Why do you think HRM is important?
• What are retention strategies?
• What do you mean by 360-degree feedback?
• Which is better: mentoring or coaching?
• How would you terminate an employee who is not performing?
• What is the difference between personnel management and human resource management?
• What aspect of supervision do you find the most difficult?
• How do you motivate employees?
• What are the competitive challenges in Human Resource Management?

Good evening to all! Please help me by suggesting the answers to these questions, as I have to go for an interview for an HR executive position. Being a fresher, I don't know the logical answers to these questions, so please provide me with the answers so that I can be prepared for the interview.

Regards

Dear Friend,

Please find the attached details for your interview.

What is Human Resource Management?
Human Resource Management involves managing humans with an incremental value approach and ensuring alignment of their growth with the organization.

What Do You Prefer, Recruitment or Selection?
Recruitment is a process, and selection is one of the stages of the same.

How Do You Motivate Your Employees?
By using positive incentives and role models.

What Is More Important to You, Money or Position?
A combination of both. If I have a position, money will automatically follow.

How Do You Define Empowerment?
Empowerment involves enabling responsibility and effective communication by providing a conducive environment.

How Can You Make Use of IT in HRM?
IT can be utilized for every step of HRM, from forms and formats to processes and HRIS. It also enables paperless work and the use of systems like SAP.

Suggest a Training Program/Workshop for Feedback Skills
It depends on the quality of the questionnaire and the person receiving the feedback. For smaller groups, one-on-one feedback is preferred.

Why Do You Think HRM Is Important?
Human capital is a valuable asset to a company, especially in a competitive global scenario where finding and retaining suitable candidates at all levels can be challenging. HRM plays a crucial role in an individual's career and ensures the proper functioning of all company functions.

What Are Retention Strategies?
Retention strategies include providing growth opportunities, development initiatives, engagement activities, role changes and expansions, training programs, and family integration practices.

What Do You Mean by 360-Degree Feedback?
360-degree feedback involves receiving feedback from all spheres surrounding a person, including bosses, colleagues, subordinates, vendors, and service departments.

Which One Is Better, Mentoring or Coaching?
The choice depends on the situation. Mentoring is long-term and generalistic, while coaching is specific and short-term.

How Would You Terminate an Underperforming Employee?
Termination could involve asking the employee to resign or issuing a termination letter. Providing multiple notices before termination may also be considered, depending on the circumstances.

What Is the Difference Between Personnel Management and Human Resource Management?
Personnel management is a component of HRM that deals with aspects like salary, PF, ESI, and legal issues, while HRM encompasses a broader range of responsibilities. Some view them as distinct functions.

What Aspect of Supervision Do You Find Most Challenging?
The difficulty may vary depending on the supervisor, with maintaining work-life balance being a common challenge.

What Are the Competitive Challenges in Human Resource Management?
Competitive challenges in HRM include issues such as attrition, work-life balance, culture control and development, and communication patterns.

Again, it depends on one's common sense. I gave the idea; one needs to interpret it in his/her way. These are not for memorizing every word. Understand the concept and internalize it.

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Simple leaders don't require a title. In other words, a title cannot make someone a leader. Leaders earn their title; titles don't make or create leaders. Good topic, by the way.

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I want to know the difference between shareholder and stockholder, employee and employer, trainee and trainer.

Thank you.

What is Human Resource Management?
HRM is the process of bringing people and organizations together so that the goals of each are met.

What do you prefer, recruitment or selection?
Recruitment and selection are both important because recruitment is the process of searching for candidates and related information, while selection is the final process of choosing the best suitable candidates and rejecting others.

How do you motivate your employees?
To motivate employees, three things are a must:
1. Good salary, incentives, and the right promotion.
2. A good environment within the organization.
3. Appreciation of good work and good supervision.

What is more important to you, money or position?
Money and position are both very important for a successful person because if you have a position, money is possible.

How do you define empowerment?
Empowerment is the giving or delegation of power or authority, giving ability, enablement, and permission.

How can you make use of IT in HRM?
IT in HR is very useful because it is a method by which an organization collects, analyzes, and reports information about people and jobs and prepares forms and formats.

Suggest a training program/workshop for feedback skills?
It mainly depends on the training topics and the type of questionnaire used.

Why do you think HRM is important?
HRM is very important for:
1. Providing maximum opportunities for personal development.
2. Improving employees' working skills and capacity.
3. Maintaining the balance between the jobs available and job seekers according to qualifications and needs.
4. Effectively utilizing available human resources.
5. Providing a healthy relationship between different groups.

What are retention strategies?
Retention strategies include providing training programs, growth, development, engagement activities, and role changes.

What do you mean by 360° feedback?
360° feedback involves the appraiser determining what is more important and less important, preparing reports, and making judgments without bias. Typical appraisers include supervisors, peers, subordinates, employees themselves, users of service, and consultants. Performance appraisal from all these parties is called 360° appraisal.

Which one is better: mentoring or coaching?
Coaching is specific and short-term, while mentoring is long-term and general. Both are important, depending on the situation.

How would you terminate an employee who is not performing?
It depends; either you ask the employee or give some warnings.

What is the difference between personnel management and human resource management?
HRM is a broader term than personnel management; it is a part of HRM that takes care of salary, PF, ESI, and legal issues. The key relationship of personnel management is with labor management, while HRM relates to all aspects.

What aspect of supervision do you find most difficult?
Supervision depends on the nature of work and the nature of employees. It may have negative and positive aspects.

What are the competitive challenges in Human Resource Management?
1. Managing changes.
2. Controlling costs.
3. Controlling and measuring results and feedback.
4. Communication patterns.

Thanks and regards,
Minesh Kumari

Good Evening All! Thanks a lot to all of you for your help, but I want to share my interview experience of that day and my disappointment during the same, and also seek your suggestion.

Interview Experience as an HR Recruiter Coordinator

That day, my interview was for the job of HR recruiter coordinator at a consultancy. But after looking at my resume, the interviewer asked me, "Do you have any experience in HR before?" I replied that I have no experience in HR, but I have a total of three years of experience at Vodafone store as a customer services executive and one year of experience at LIC Housing Finance Ltd. Upon hearing this, he said, "You are quite fresh in HR, and recruitment is a vast area. We will have to teach you like a kid as we teach a kid ABC in the beginning," and then he just gave an excuse that he would confirm with me later after discussing with my director. He didn't even ask me any questions regarding HR.

I was totally disappointed that day because if a consultancy could not give me the chance to enter my desired field, then how can I ever make my career in HR? Everywhere I will be considered a fresher, and nobody will consider me eligible to work as HR. I will be a fresher forever in this way, and my other work experience will be of no use and totally worthless. I request all my respected seniors to kindly suggest how I can enter this field because I have a strong desire and determination to work in HR but am not getting any chance to show my caliber and skills for the same.