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Advertising Account Executive Interview Questions

The Advertising Account Manager plays an important role in an organization, and while interviewing a candidate you should look for things that can’t be learnt through training. The ideal Account Executive is innovative, clever and enjoys his challenging role. Ask about situations where he went an extra mile to satisfy a customer or deliver the unexpected. Pay attention to how he describes his own campaigns. These things will help you find a candidate with the right skills and attitude for your team.

The responsibilities of an Advertising Account Manager differ from agency to agency. In some companies, this is a basic job role. While in other firms, they emphasize on recruiting an experienced candidate with huge marketing and advertising knowledge. The below-mentioned advertising and marketing questions are for the later. These questions will help you find the depth of a candidate’s practical experience. Past client interaction experience is a must. Most importantly, the field of advertising is constantly developing, so you might need to test the knowledge of marketing automation or CRM, make sure to add some relevant questions.

Lastly, listen carefully to the questions your prospective Advertising Account Executive asks. Great candidates do their homework before appearing for the interview, so, he will be aware of your organization, clientele and competitors.

Operational and Situational questions

• What things do you keep in mind when creating a storyboard?
• Say, for example, your client keeps rejecting your submitted raw designs, what would you do?
• If you were given a project and all of a sudden its deadline changes and now you have to submit it in a few days, how would you go about it?

Role-specific questions

• What brands do you follow? According to you, what makes their campaigns so effective?
• How do you cope up with changing trends in the advertising industry?
• If given a chance to choose one of our clients to work with, who would that be and why?
• What distinguishes us from our competitors?
• What type of clients are you currently working with? Are they B2C or B2B?
• Tell me about your last campaign where you had to sell something?
• What is the most creative work you have done so far in this field?
• What approach do you use to manage multiple clients at a time?
• Tell me about a time when your client disagreed with your proposed marketing strategy? What was your tactic at that time?
• What systems do you often use to keep your projects under given budgetary levels?
• Rate yourself on a scale of 1-10 on meeting deadlines? 1 being the best.
• In your current company, what tools do you use for reporting and analytics?
• Tell me about some integrated campaigns you have been involved in. Which channels did you use and why?
• Do you have experience of working with offline channels? How would you integrate an offline channel with an online channel?
• Do you have experience of working in a team? What was your last team project and how was your experience?