Executive Assistant

Supplemental Questionnaire

Examination Questions (Scored)

This supplemental questionnaire will serve as the examination for this recruitment.  It will be scored based on your checked responses below.  Scores received from this examination will determine applicant ranking and placement on the eligible list. 

By continuing in this examination process, you are certifying that all information provided in the supplemental questionnaire is true to the best of your knowledge.

For the following questions, select the one response that best describes your level of job-related experience and/or training. Narratives provided by applicants describing experience and/or training will not be scored but will be available to the hiring authority and may be utilized for interview and selection determinations.

Please indicate your experience providing administrative support to Executive Management, a Department Head and/or high ranking individuals in a politically sensitive environment where it is critical to remain impartial.

If you indicated experience above, please describe in detail below:

The County Executive's Office works with information that is highly confidential.  Please indicate your experience working with confidential information.

If you indicated experience above, please describe your experience in this type of environment, what the word confidential means to you, and how you preserved the confidentiality of the information:

Please indicate your experience in maintaining an executive's calendar, and coordinating and scheduling meetings.

Please describe below the techniques and programs you have used while working with Executive Calendars.  In your response, please include the approach you would take when there is a calendaring conflict:

As an Executive Assistant for the County Executive Officer, it is critical to work in an organized manner, to be able to reprioritize at any given moment, and still meet critical deadlines.  Please indicate your experience working in this type of environment.

Please describe in detail your response to the question above, and how you would address conflicting priorities:

The Executive Assistant is typically the first point of contact for the public and other County staff and likely receives many drop-in visitors at all levels of the County Organization.  Please indicate your level of experience interacting with and screening calls from the public, department heads and other high-ranking officials.

Please describe in detail your experience indicated above: 

Please indicate your experience providing direct supervision to other clerical or administrative staff.

If you indicated experience above, please describe below including the number and level of staff supervised:

Please indicate your experience in drafting, editing, and proofreading documents.

If you indicated experience above, please describe below:

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