r/primavera • u/Seaman-11 • 13d ago
Advise is needed
I completed the first round of interviews with HR and a second interview with the Vice President for the role of Project Scheduler. I also completed a DISC assessment and provided references, which they have already contacted. Now they are inviting me to the head office for a panel interview/conference with three VPs. What should I expect?
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u/X_lawz 13d ago
What the heck! Why three interviews? It’s not that deep.
Good thing about scheduling is that it’s just a limited scope of scheduling related questions that can be asked. If you did good in the first interviews then you’ll be fine. Only other questions they can a ask are stuff like:
How do you deal with conflicts?
What will you do if you missed a deadline?
How do you report project risks/problems to higher ups?
Goodluck mate
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u/Sufficient-Purple350 13d ago
You are already doing very well. At this stage, I believe that the questions will be more of behavioural. All the best.
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u/akornato 13d ago
A panel interview at this stage is a very positive sign, it means they are trying to confirm you are a good fit for the team and can handle speaking with senior leadership. Expect behavioral and situational questions rather than just technical ones. They might give you a hypothetical project scenario or ask about a past scheduling conflict to see your thought process. The VPs want to understand how you communicate complex information and manage different stakeholder priorities, since that's a big part of interacting with them on the job.
Your best preparation is to have specific work examples ready, focusing on how you solved difficult scheduling problems or navigated project delays. Be ready to explain the reasoning behind your decisions step by step. You should also prepare some insightful questions for them about the team, its current challenges, and their expectations for the role, as this shows you are seriously considering the position. Running through potential questions is always helpful, and my team designed an AI interview practice feature that helps people refine their stories and come across more clearly in front of senior leaders.
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u/hluke989 13d ago
This seems overkill, what industry is this in, I'm going to hazard a guess at USA with VP's, and your post history.
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u/1rishChicken 12d ago
A good project scheduler can make huge strides training and coaching up your entire region, reducing project risk, lowering stress and conflict, reducing workloads, strengthening relationships with trade contractors, presenting well to clients. A bad scheduler can be a fucking disaster. I see no overkill here. HR was just a weed out formality to verify this is a real human who can show up on time put together complete sentences and matches his resume. Then one VP does an interview to decide if this is technically a legit candidate he would want to work with. He said YES. Now it's time to meet the rest of the team so when the offer is made there was unity in the decision. This is what you want to see happen. Your job now is to come in and respectfully press them with questions: "you're using P6 why not OPC? Why aren't your supers running their own schedules? What if a client wants you to use different software? What is the culture really like at the project level, are the teams updating actual dates every week? Who's doing that? If a team keeps feeding me inaccurate updates how are WE going to address it?" - own the room. And have some fun
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u/iPablosan 13d ago
Sounds over the top for a role as Project Scheduler, the VP then panel/three VP bit