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"Responsible for reviewing and evaluating content, editors are highly attentive to detail, organized, and collaborative. In an interview, expect to be asked about how you work with deadlines, your toolbox of editing systems, and where you get your ideas for stories. Especially desirable are candidates with strong communication skills who can work well in teams."

Top Editor Interview Questions & How to Answer

Question 1

Question #1: What's your process to maintaining deadlines?

How to answer
How to answer: When working as an editor, you'll face deadlines when you must provide the work back to the writer or project manager. Highlight any tools you use to track and manage deadlines, such as a calendar or task management system. You can also use this question to describe your work ethic and situations in which you've faced and maintained tight deadlines for clients or team members. This question also works well to discuss your prioritization skills.
Question 2

Question #2: How do you maintain focus when handling the mundane aspects of editing?

How to answer
How to answer: Editors often face tedious and monotonous tasks, such as proofreading, checking sources, and fact-checking. When answering a question about maintaining your focus, talk about any processes you have in place to stay alert as you review other people's words. For example, if you read sentences aloud when assessing grammatical correctness or use a digital tool to check facts, describe these habits.
Question 3

Question #3: Describe your approach to offering constructive feedback.

How to answer
How to answer: An editor often has to provide constructive feedback to writers and content experts. They need to be able to do so in a way that benefits the other party while maintaining a professional and positive tone. Outline your communication skills and ability to provide feedback in a way that doesn't generate a negative or defensive response.

11,602 editor interview questions shared by candidates

- Fourthly, my job experience and qualifications speak for themselves. Please, I don't mean to come off like an obnoxious person, I truly am not. I purely mean this in the sense that I have been a professional video editor for the past 9 years and for the past 3 and a half years (I've got over two dozen recommendations as well as professional recommendations for my work experiences). The recruiter mentioned in the feedback that “being remote at this point, it is imperative to have a clear communication and thought process to be able to work effectively with the business”. For the past three years, I have been working remotely with teams in three different time zones - I have excellent references of me being a good communicator and an effective team member. I have had no communication issues while I have been working remotely, it’s something I am extremely familiar with. If I at any point was not clear in my interview, why did I make it through 4 rounds of interviews? Surely that... just seems very odd to me. Surely, there must be a way for me to express that being in a collaborative remote office environment is incredibly different than being in an interview. A short one hour interview doesn’t give me a good enough chance to display my efforts and skills as a co-worker. To hear that my skills and experience was not to their expectations was incredibly surprising to me, considering it is what got me through to every interview stage. Even after having spoken to the Manager in the first round he said "Oh I told the recruiter we HAD to talk to you as I was so impressed with your background". How did I not meet the skillset? I just wanted to lastly point out that at the end of the final interview I did ask them “is there anything leaving you with hesitancy regarding myself in hiring me for the role?” And they answered that they were very happy with everything I had said. Meaning that there was no room for me to feel that “I had not been precise”. I was very confused about that statement. If there was any doubt, why not approach me directly about it instead of providing me with positivism and false hopes? Why mislead me like that? Why make me feel like everything was so incredibly positive and then just throw me away? I feel like it was all a huge miscommunication and a subjective perspective. I didn’t want to be misled. I'm sorry for dragging this out so long but it just affected me so much - because I have never been more confused about an interview process like this before. I was genuinely excited about the role and I was just taken back by all of this.
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Video Editor, Brand

Interviewed at Prodigy Education

3★
Mar 18, 2021

- Fourthly, my job experience and qualifications speak for themselves. Please, I don't mean to come off like an obnoxious person, I truly am not. I purely mean this in the sense that I have been a professional video editor for the past 9 years and for the past 3 and a half years (I've got over two dozen recommendations as well as professional recommendations for my work experiences). The recruiter mentioned in the feedback that “being remote at this point, it is imperative to have a clear communication and thought process to be able to work effectively with the business”. For the past three years, I have been working remotely with teams in three different time zones - I have excellent references of me being a good communicator and an effective team member. I have had no communication issues while I have been working remotely, it’s something I am extremely familiar with. If I at any point was not clear in my interview, why did I make it through 4 rounds of interviews? Surely that... just seems very odd to me. Surely, there must be a way for me to express that being in a collaborative remote office environment is incredibly different than being in an interview. A short one hour interview doesn’t give me a good enough chance to display my efforts and skills as a co-worker. To hear that my skills and experience was not to their expectations was incredibly surprising to me, considering it is what got me through to every interview stage. Even after having spoken to the Manager in the first round he said "Oh I told the recruiter we HAD to talk to you as I was so impressed with your background". How did I not meet the skillset? I just wanted to lastly point out that at the end of the final interview I did ask them “is there anything leaving you with hesitancy regarding myself in hiring me for the role?” And they answered that they were very happy with everything I had said. Meaning that there was no room for me to feel that “I had not been precise”. I was very confused about that statement. If there was any doubt, why not approach me directly about it instead of providing me with positivism and false hopes? Why mislead me like that? Why make me feel like everything was so incredibly positive and then just throw me away? I feel like it was all a huge miscommunication and a subjective perspective. I didn’t want to be misled. I'm sorry for dragging this out so long but it just affected me so much - because I have never been more confused about an interview process like this before. I was genuinely excited about the role and I was just taken back by all of this.

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