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Need help with an interview - Group Financial Manager?

the attributes i'm looking for : Young Accountant demonstrating professionalism, focused on ethics, combination of theoretical skills and real world practical skills, safeguard the integrity of financial statements, need to have a global mind-set, transparent financial reporting based on a robust set of internationally accepted standards Please help me with 3 questions I can ask the candidate to psychometricly test if he/she has above mentioned attributes -god- I'm recruiting somebody for my Company -gem- The "gobbledy-****" means everything to me and my organization.

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1. Work place procedures Here you will be given some statements about what goes on in many work places. You’ll be asked to indicate whether you agree, disagree or feel uncertain about the statement. Examples: A agree ? uncertain DA disagree For most people, how much they get paid is the most important part of their job A ? DA If they put their mind to it, most people can learn how to do more than one job. A ? DA Your personal history and opinions Here you will be given a series of statements. You will be asked to indicate whether the statement is True or False as it applies to you. For example: People who know me would usually say that I am pretty even tempered. T F When I’m working I find that I get easily bored. T F
2. First, I hope you realize that the term, "Young Accountant" is setting you up for a lawsuit. It is illegal to discriminate against those 40 or over, in the US. As for the rest of the questions, what you should do is go and sit down with the Controller/CFO and ask them what exact things they need in this position. Everything you stated is HR gobbledy-gook and has no real meaning. Any degreed accountant will have "theoretical" skill. Real world practical skills would come from previous jobs. And the rest is BS. A good recruiter looks for keywords on resumes, a GREAT recruiter talks to the people that are doing the job, or have done the job, or will manage the job and finds out what the BS terminology really means
3. ask them if they say "excuse me" when noone else is around..silly question but what people do when noone is looking is a insight into their charater. ask them a set of questions that are kinda trick questions regarding privacy of statements.... 1.is it ok to leave a statement on your desk with another client in the room? 2.would it be ok to take someones statements home to work on out of the office? etc....the answer should always be no but just see where they would draw the line on some of these important issues..
4. 1.Tell me about an instance when you have overcome an obstacle and how you did it. 2. give me an instance when you have had to conclude a task by unconventional means. 3. give me the order of importance you consider he following . trustworty loyalty honesty from the answers to these you can work out the value of the candidate.
5. Make them simple frequent asked questions ,that person is not looking for that they're more focused on hard to answer question that are usually prescript-ed in their minds of answers they will be asked, you are more likely to get a honest and none rehearsed answer or feed back. Establish your questions from this.
6. 1- if you have found a walet containing a few hundreds dollars would you keep the money and dispose of the wallet? would you keep the money and return the wallet or would you return the wallet in full? 2- \have you done any traveling in the past to other parts of the world and are you available to travel at a moments notice? 3-if you know of some inside infrmation that can altar the financial situation of a friend would you compromise the status quo in order to protect that friend?