Have you ever had to fire anyone?

This is most typical job interview questions that all recruiters will ask you. You should connect this questions to job description, job spec, resume. You can ref answer structure, answer tips, answer samples as follows:

1. Answer tips

This is serious. Do not make light of it or in any way seem like you like to fire people. At the same time, you will do it when it is the right thing to do. When it comes to the organization versus the individual who has created a harmful situation, you will protect the organization.

Be sensitive upon answering this subject matter. The key is always to stay empathic but acknowledging the management duties that comes with higher up responsibilities and the team aspect of this decision.

2. Answer samples

Answer sample 1

When I was administrator at a large educational institution in the NY it was my job, among other things, to hire and fire. Believe me, it was harder to hire than to fire. There was always cause for firing, and usually I was glad to get rid of those who I fired. Hiring, however, was difficult. I had to choose between so many good, qualified candidates, and I never knew which one was really the right choice.

Answer sample 2

I have fired several people during my business career. I never enjoyed it, except once, when the person who I fired was a very nasty man who thought of himself before any other employee, not to say the company.

Answer sample 3

Others fired were usually people who were consistently late or absent, a few who just could not handle their assignments, and a couple who were caught stealing from the warehouse. I prosecuted those two, but even then, I felt more for the employees than I did for myself or the company.

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