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Possible Interview Questions
16. What is your value system? How will your values determine how you manage our
City?
17. Why should we select you to be our next City Manager?
18. Is there anything else you would like to tell us?
Topics / Question Set II:
1. Explain what you believe the role of our City Manager should be.
2. What are the three most important commandments for a City Manager?
3. Can you give me a breakdown of your typical day as a City Manager?
4. How would you view your relationship with the elected officials?
5. How will you go about building a strong relationship with them? How will you
maintain it?
6. How do you build consensus on an elected body when it is deeply divided?
7. What information do you think the governing body needs to have concerning dayto-day
operations and on-going projects?
8. How will you keep the elected officials informed?
9. What kind of direction do you expect to get from the elected officials? What will
you do if you do not feel they have made it clear how they want the staff to
precede on a particular issue?
10. There is an expression, “A good City Manager only needs to be able count to
three.” Of course in our case, that would be five. Could you please comment on
that statement?
11. What do you do when your views on handling a situation differ from those of the
governing body as a whole?
12. What will you do if a particular elected official disagrees with how you believe a
situation should be handled?
13. What will you do when an elected official contacts a department head directly and
tells him/her to do something?
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