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Social Media Manager Interview Questions

When interviewing you as social media manager, employers want to assess your technical skills with social media communication and monitoring technologies and your "soft skills" in terms creating compelling social campaigns and being the voice of the brand. Expect lots of questions about how you use technologies and lots of hypotheticals about how you would handle different difficult situations. Employers will also ask about successful campaigns that you ran, and how you demonstrated success.

Top Social Media Manager Interview Questions & How to Answer

Question 1

Question 1: What metrics do you use to determine social media success?

How to answer
How to answer: Companies need to know that you can deliver social media results that achieve measurable goals. Discuss different parameters that you use to determine whether a social media profile or post is successful. These benchmarks might include increased followers, reactions to posts, and site or profile traffic. You can also talk about behind-the-scenes metrics such as SEO, customer conversions, account creation, and increases in sales. Bring up any platform-specific parameters, too.
Question 2

Question 2: Would you change anything about our current social media efforts?

How to answer
How to answer: The interviewer wants to know how familiar you are with the company's social media, brand, and mission. Show that you understand the company's goals and that you will be an asset in reaching those goals. Remember not to be critical of what the company is currently doing. Focus only on improvements you'd make.
Question 3

Question 3: How do you deal with negative social media attention?

How to answer
How to answer: Demonstrate your adaptability. Explain how you can keep a cool head in a crisis. Discuss that the first 24 hours are essential in responding to negative comments or a social media crisis. Then outline the steps you would take to identify and implement the correct response. Remember to explain why you chose that response, whether clarifying the post in question or apologizing to your followers.

4,237 social media manager interview questions shared by candidates

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Social Media Manager

Interviewed at Heist

3.3★
Apr 13, 2019

The man I referenced earlier talked through my CV, and asserted we had a 'broadly similar academic background' (we'd both been to the same prestigious university, though he'd attended a well-renowned independent school prior to this, and I'd been state-educated my whole life). He then argued that he'd graduated from said university not really knowing how to work hard, and it was only through his stint at a top-tier consultancy that he'd developed this ability. I'd just graduated at the time and, in light of this, he told me I had 'nothing' on my CV (not true if he'd bothered to actually read it in a little more depth) and, given his own experiences, asked me if I was an 'arrogant little sh*t' at this stage in my professional life, seeing as I was fresh out of university.

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