Interview Format Introduction The interview for this position will have a structured format and will be conducted

by a panel. The panel will consist of the board of Directors because these people will be working together with the director of Marketing. The productivity and the excellent performance outcome of the executive team depend on how well the director of marketing can coordinate with the demands of the executive team. The human resources team chose to conduct a structured interview because this method yields greater reliability and validity than unstructured interviews.

Interview Format 1. Introduction stage a. Introducing each other b. Interviewer introduces the company 2. Information from the interviewer to the candidate a. Build a rapport: In this stage, the interviewer will set an accommodating atmosphere to the candidate in attempt to ease the candidates nervousness and anxieties. 3. Interview questions: During this stage, the interviewers will have a scoring guide available to efficiently assess the candidates answers and to add validity and reliability to the information shared by the candidate. a. Question qualifications, credibility and capability i. Ask situational questions that will reflect the level of K,S,A to qualify a candidate. b. Question how compatible a candidate is with the organizational climate i. Ask behavioral questions that will potentially predict a personality that is fit with the organization. c. Question the candidates commitment to the organization i. The interviewers will decipher a candidates commitment to the organization by asking situational questions that will predict this.

4. Questions from the interviewee: In this stage, the interviewers will be asking the candidate about questions that they would like to ask the interviewers. 5. Conclusions: In this stage the interviewers will close the interviews by informing the candidate about when the hiring decision will be made, and will share contact information to the candidate to allow the candidate to contact the appropriate person to inquire about the status of the hiring decision.

Interview Questions 1. Tell me about an experience where you had to present a marketing prospect to a team? How did it go and how would you improve this? 2. Tell me a situation where in your team was unmotivated, how would you maintain a productive and high performing staff? 3. Tell me about an experience where you had to represent an organization during a press release that involves poor marketing practices, tell me how it went and how would you have handled this situation if you havent experienced this before. 4. What do you think is the most effective marketing channel for communicating our tourism packages? 5. Tell me about an experience where in you were given a budget for a project? How did you enforce this? And which components did you allocate most of your resources to? 6. Tell me about an experience where in you had to sell tourism packages to a foreign country? Or another product to person who you had language barriers with? 7. Tell me about a difficult personality that you had to work with, how did you handle this situation? And how would you have improved your attitude? 8. What attracted you to this company? 9. Tell me about a situation where you have been put into a team where in more than one person didnt contribute their work, how did you handle this situation? 10. Tell me about a problem you uncovered in your previous job. What steps did you take to sort it out? 11. How long did you work for your previous employer? And why did you leave?

12. The deadline for your project is tomorrow and your sisters graduation is tonight, your 75% done with your project and you estimate that it will take a whole night to finish the project, what would you do? 13.You are offered a job with a competing organization that offers a higher compensation compared to us, what would you do and why?