Developing Interview Script and Assessments for HR Assistant Role

This article provides an interview script and assessments for HR assistant role. It includes an opening script and list of interview questions using the four types of questions. It also identifies two types of assessments/tests appropriate for this role, explaining what insights each will give you about your candidates.

HRM8131-F21 Individual Assigned Task #4
Interviews and Assessments
ONET Position Title ONET Job Description # Date
Purpose:
The purpose of this task is for you to apply the principles of effective talent recruitment and
selection through the development of a partial interview script for a specific HR role.
Instructions:
Using the same (*) ONET HR role job description you used for your individual assigned task
assignment in Week 3, develop an opening script and list of interview questions using the four
types of questions introduced during our class earlier today. Explain what information you hope to
learn about your applicants by asking your list of questions, and what their responses will tell you
about their ability to contribute to the company's success.
Additionally, identify two types of assessments/tests appropriate for this role, explaining what
insights each will give you about your candidates.
Please note you are only required to complete this template for this week's Individual Assigned
Task.
Theme Content
Opening Script
(Full Sentences, Minimum Ten)
The HR assistant, except payroll and timekeeping job role requires these
qualities:
 The bachelor degree in administration and management along with the
master's degree in human resource management is also mandatory.
 Handling of the computer software such as, email and MS office.
 Minimum work experience of two years is mandatory.
 Strong communication skills are required in terms of verbal and
written.
 An effective way to implement the team work.
 Good power of decision-making
 Effective skills in terms of building good relationship
 Abilities to drive the confidence of the people.
 The quality to maintain employees records in order to process the
payroll.
 The honesty and integrity towards the organization.
Non-Directive Interview
Question + Insights
Q. What are the most important elements in managing the role of HR assistant
effective and efficiently?
This question enables the recruiter to know about the different perceptions of the

applicant in managing and performing the job role in effective manner. An
effective management at the workplace by HR assistant ensures the proper
management of the employee records and their payroll. This results in the
satisfaction level of the employees. Satisfied employees contributes more in the
productivity of the organization. Thus, an effective way of management by HR
assistant contributes in the productivity of the organization.
Structured Interview
Question+ Insights
Q. What are your best areas of strengths apart from the HR assistant, except
payroll and time keeping job role?
Through this question, the interviewer get to know about the effective
approaches of the applicants besides their job role. This will show that, besides
the job part, what level of potential a candidate possess. The HR assistant who
posses the strengths apart from their job role focuses on performing each task
with their full efficiency. Whether the task is part their job or not. When each
task in performed with full effectiveness then, collectively it contributes towards
the main goal of the company.
Situational Interview
Question + Insights
Q. Tell me the duration at which you have achieved big goal within your last
organization.
This question of the interviewer express the methods that has been adopted by
the candidate in terms of achieving the goal. The answer by the applicant will
show that, how the candidate has performed within their last organization in
terms of HR assistant job role. The effective performance by the applicant in his
last organization leads to an assurance that, the applicant will maintain the
employees records and payroll effectively.
Behavioural Description Interview
Question + Insights
Q. Tell me about that time when you faced failure?
In terms of asking this as a question, the interviewer gets an idea regarding the
handling power of the applicant during bad phases. HR assistant must need to be
positive in order to handle the bad phases. The positive behaviour by the
candidate provides an assurance to the interviewer that, at the time of hard times
the positive approach of the candidate will manage the things.
Test/Assessment #1 Recommendation +
Rationale
Situational mental testing
This test helps in knowing about the power of taking actions by the HR assistant
while performing the job. The potential level of the candidate can be known
from this. Under this test, situational questions has been asked by the recruiter.
And the response of the candidate is observed. The handling of the situation by
the applicant shows their strength of keeping up a positive mind-set while
performing the job.
Test/Assessment #2
Recommendation + Rationale
Psychometric test
The main reason behind taking this test is that, it enables in knowing the catch-
up strength of the applicant. This test shows that, in what time the HR assistant
will complete the task in effective way.
(*) If your Onet role from the previous task did not meet the criteria (within the
Human Resources field AND not the HR Manager role), select another Human
Resources role for this task.
Submission:
Once complete, submit your completed document to the assignment folder located on eConestoga
in our course shell by no later than 11:59 PM EDT the day after class (actual due dates: Sections 1
+ 3 = 211006; Section 2 = 211007; Section 4 = 211008).
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