Interview questions 1 1. Give an example of a time when you were leading and influencing the direction of a project or task. I was a vice president of Swimming during my college days. Once I held an annual party for alumni and the number of alumni was more than 300. I set the way to contact with them. I fixed call quota for each member of the club and I made a detailed manual for a phone calling to make our members feel easy to make a call. As a leader, I took care of the most number of calls. With these methods, we achieved the goal on time. 2. Describe a situation when you faced a difficult problem and how you were able to solve it. Once I had to arrange an interview for our clients (musicians) with a radio program and the radio producer wanted our clients to perform at his program. However, our clients didn’t want to perform until they could be sure about the condition of musical instruments at the radio station. However, it was impossible for my clients to check the condition in person because they were foreigners and outside of Korea. To solve this problem, I decided to go to the radio station by myself. With the help of the radio producer, I took various pictures of the instruments and filmed them to record their sound as well. I sent the pictures and video to my clients by email. As a result, I could get their confirmation and I made it to meet both sides’ expectations. 3. Describe a time when you were able to come up with a new idea that became key to the success of some activity or project. One day, my boss at the previous job asked me to come up with an idea about new business items to sell in other countries. Hence, I researched a trend in music industry of Korea and I found out an attractive item. At that time, an animation production made an animation with some classical music pieces and they threw a live concert with it. It was getting popular in Korea. I thought it could be popular in other countries as well so I made a proposal to analyze the animation-concert’s potentiality overseas and suggested making a partnership with the animation company and getting a right to sell the animation concert overseas. My boss was satisfied with my work and actually our company represented the animation later. We sold the item to an orchestra in China.