interview questions and answers for social media positions

The following questions help you prepare for all types of professional interview social media. Note that you need to refer to the method of interview.

If you’re seeking a job as a social media specialist, these questions will help you prepare for the job interview.

100 Social Media Interview Questions

• Tell me something about you?
• Describe your greatest strengths?
• Tell me the reason why you quit your previous job?
• Tell me your career goals in work?
• Why do you choose this job in our company?
• Tell me your biggest weakness?
• Are you interested in any other jobs?
• Tell me your knowledge of our company?
• What is your expected salary?
• Why do you think that you are the most suitable candidate?

Employer interview questions

• Which is more efficient with our company, Twitter or Facebook?
• Recommend us the social website we should be on?
• What do you do to link our site to social media? Which widgets or buttons should we use?
• How many accesses do you think we could receive from social media sites?
• Grade our company on our present social media efforts
• Tell me the benefit we can get when a social checks in our site?
• Recommend us the tabs we should have on our company Facebook page? Tell me the one should be default?
• What is your definition of social media reach? Describe the current social media reach which is out of our company?
• Tell me 5 things we should do right now in social media?
• Give me the reason why we shouldn’t stop using MySpace?
• Tell me the reason why we should use social media?
• I want to know the first thing you will do if you are offered this position. Tell me your target in the first month and the first year?
• Which one would you choose, Facebook Recommend or Facebook Like?

Social media performance evaluation/ROI

• What is success in your point of view?
• Could you define ROI (Return on Investment)?
• Which results could we achieve?
• How long do we have to wait to get direct results/indirect results?
• What do you do to ensure that the experience can satisfy participants?
• What do you do to know whether it is valuable to the business?
• What is success in social media?
• What would you do to explain a) externally, or b) internal critics? (this and the one above are sent to SM headhunter]
• Do you think that social media might influence other digital media – the main website is an example? Give me your opinion about it?
• What do you do to control online reputation or manage personal issues on social media?

Social Media Field Questions

• Define SEO?
• What are our opinions of Facebook fan page?
• Could you define Web 2.0
• Describe Web 3.0
• Do you know what “next big thing” is?
• Describe the difference between social networking and social media?
• What is the role of social media advisers?
• Tell me which part of social media is the most interesting?
• Give me the names of the social media blogs you often read? What do you search on them?
• Who do you admire most in social media field?

Social Media Technical Questions

• What should you do to attract visitors to see a clip?
• Describe how you set up a channel on Youtube?
• What is the difference between Sharing on Facebook and Facebook Like?
• Which tools will you use to update social media if you are on a holiday and unable to keep in touch with social media for a week time?
• Create resounding success on social media by writing three headlines for news. Which brings success to the headline? Write an attractive headline for article of our company.
• How often do we need to have Twitter updated?
• What do you do to deal with criticism of an online company?
• How do you react in case someone creates a ridiculous account to laugh at our company?
• What do you do to manage comments?
• Will you accept to pay someone to praise our company online?
• What do you do to have the exclusive content shown on our Facebook page and only to fans?
• Do you know anyone in our company should be blogging on behalf of the organization?
• Describe the way you implement the competitive analysis in the social media?
• Tell me your opinion about software applications that follow automatically or try to collect a big number of friends on social network sites?
• Describe statistics for a fresh Facebook fan page?
• Could you define the re-tweet?
• Tell me your knowledge of RSS? Describe the importance of it?
• Have you ever had any contents appeared onto the front page of Digg?
• Do you often have your Facebook and Twiter updated?
• Tell me the ways you use to manage your Facebook group?
• What do you do to manage a Facebook fanpage well?

Social media analytic

• Tell me the acceptable reason to pay for advertisement on social media?
• Which types of advertisement are the best on a social networking site?
• Tell me the analytic software packages that you have used?
• Which social media campaign is the most successful that you have ever known. Why was it was successful? Could you do the same?
• Tell me an example of social media campaign that you did from the beginning to the end?
• Are you running a social media campaign at this moment? Which channel is it on? What steps will you do next for your campaign?
• Describe the factors that a successful video needs to have?
• Which norm do you base on to evaluate success on social media?
• How do you measure the efficiency of social media?
• Why do you know a social media campaign unsuccessful?
• Describe the important performance indicators that you suggest to make report on social media?
• Could you write the contents of strategy for social media?
• What necessaries are important in a social media marketing campaign?

Social media experience:

• Describe your experience of designing a video?
• Tell me the experience that you have collected from using web 2.0 tools in professional as well as in your personal business?
• Which challenges have you met when you used social media in your last job and what did you do to win them?
• The IT world has a lot of free social media tools. Which criterions have you based on to evaluate a tool whether it is suitable for professional use?
• Sometimes, social media is unable to support for brands. Give me an example in which your on-line performance hasn’t satisfied you as you expected and what did you do to deal with it?
• Have you ever had to write a training, guidance or strategy document about social media and what did you do to complete this assignment?

General Social Media Questions

• Describe some difficulties that you faced when you explained social media to executives who knew nothing about it? What do you do to deal with such objections?
• Describe your strengths in social media area?
• Tell me your weakness in social media?
• Tell me the social bookmarking sites you often use?
• Tell me the names of social media tools that you use?
• What do you do to control the spread of social media? What would you advise your executive if he had a trouble with social network (bad press, etc) and wanted to cover it?
• Which parts of social media would you suggest to be outsourced?
• Describe some risks related to social media?
• How do you do to improve your online knowledge?

Social media strategies:

• Which kind of social media should we use in your point of view?
• What do you do to find target customers on Facebook?
• Why should we use social media? Give me the reason?
• Do we have to be pay attention to anything when we use these tools?
• Describe the risks that we can face when using them?
• Who takes responsibility of them?
• What would you do to control relevant resource?
• Do you think some of the work should be outsourced?

NoTe: What other questions are burning a hole in your social media-filled heart? Let us know in the comments