eGigOffice assistant and admin executive interview questions and answers
Admin roles keep the office running: vendors, stock, travel, petty cash and a hundred small requests. Interviewers look for organisation, honesty and calm under pressure.
11 questions. Read each one, start the timer and answer out loud as if you were in the room, then open the tip. Nothing is recorded.
What does an office admin do day to day?
What a good answer covers
Vendors, stationery and stock, attendance, travel bookings, petty cash, couriers, meeting rooms and housekeeping.
How do you manage petty cash?
What a good answer covers
A register, a bill or voucher for every payment, approvals, and a weekly reconciliation of cash in hand.
Many people ask you for help at the same time. What do you do?
What a good answer covers
Sort by urgency and impact, tell people when you will get to them, and keep your word.
A vendor delivers late again and again. How do you handle it?
What a good answer covers
Talk to them with dates, put the terms in writing, and keep a backup vendor ready.
Which tools do you use?
What a good answer covers
Excel, Word, email, Google Workspace and basic Tally. Give an example for each.
How would you organise a meeting for 50 people?
What a good answer covers
Venue, date, invites, seating, projector, food, attendance and a checklist with owners.
How do you keep track of office assets and stock?
What a good answer covers
An asset register with tags, reorder levels for stock and a monthly physical check.
A senior asks you to book urgent travel for tomorrow. What do you do?
What a good answer covers
Confirm the details, compare two or three options, get approval if needed and send the tickets with the plan.
How do you handle confidential documents?
What a good answer covers
Keep them locked, share only with the right people and shred what is no longer needed.
Tell me about a process you improved.
What a good answer covers
What was slow or confusing, what you changed and what got better: time, cost or fewer mistakes.
How do you write a professional email?
What a good answer covers
A clear subject, a short message, the action needed and the deadline.
All 11 questions with answers
1. What does an office admin do day to day?
Vendors, stationery and stock, attendance, travel bookings, petty cash, couriers, meeting rooms and housekeeping.
2. How do you manage petty cash?
A register, a bill or voucher for every payment, approvals, and a weekly reconciliation of cash in hand.
3. Many people ask you for help at the same time. What do you do?
Sort by urgency and impact, tell people when you will get to them, and keep your word.
4. A vendor delivers late again and again. How do you handle it?
Talk to them with dates, put the terms in writing, and keep a backup vendor ready.
5. Which tools do you use?
Excel, Word, email, Google Workspace and basic Tally. Give an example for each.
6. How would you organise a meeting for 50 people?
Venue, date, invites, seating, projector, food, attendance and a checklist with owners.
7. How do you keep track of office assets and stock?
An asset register with tags, reorder levels for stock and a monthly physical check.
8. A senior asks you to book urgent travel for tomorrow. What do you do?
Confirm the details, compare two or three options, get approval if needed and send the tickets with the plan.
9. How do you handle confidential documents?
Keep them locked, share only with the right people and shred what is no longer needed.
10. Tell me about a process you improved.
What was slow or confusing, what you changed and what got better: time, cost or fewer mistakes.
11. How do you write a professional email?
A clear subject, a short message, the action needed and the deadline.
Before the interview
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