Questions to ask during the hiring process for a digital asset manager

1. Hiring A Digital
Asset Manager
(Decisions,Decisions)
Tell me about some
challenges & successes
pertaining to prior
experience working in the
field of DAM
What projects did you/do you
have going on during prior
experience working in the
field of DAM?
What are
some of your
professional
goals for the
next 5 to 10
years/Where
do you see
yourself in this
field?
Talk to me a bit
about any
experience you
may have with
working in
groups or with
vendors as it
pertains to
problem-solving
and
collaboration?
Do you
prefer to
work within
a
group/team
or alone?
(hopefully
it’s a bit of
both.)
What prior
knowledge
and/or
experience
do you think
is going to
help you the
most in this
role?
What do you
hope to learn in
this role/What do
you hope to
improve upon in
your own skillset
in this role?
What do you do
when you are unable
to solve a problem?
What’s your
comfort level
with talking to
users who don’t
understand
digital asset
management/H
ow do you
communicate in
a way that
theydon’t lose
interest?
(looking for
advocacy/enga
gement with
user groups)
How do you
goals relate to
this position?
How would it
be a good fit
for both you
professionally
and a good fit
for the
organizations
needs?
Where are you
working now?
How will the
skills you've
learned in
school or on the
job transfer over
to this position?
What
experience do
you have with
user training
and on-
boarding?
How did
you hear
about this
position?
What systems (or
processes/workflows
) have you worked
on or with?
What’s your comfort
level with excel--
reporting and
analyzing usage
statistics?
What prior
skills/knowledge
or experience
will you bring
with you to this
position that
will help with
database
indexing,
information
search &
retrieval and
user
interface/experi
encefor portal
users?
Are you looking
to learn other
DAM Systems
and can you tell
me about some
of the DAM
systems you
know of or
about?
Have you ever
created user guides?
Video tutorials?
Training sessions?
What
successes
and failures
have you
had with
training?
How often
did you do
training
sessions for
end-users?
What file
types are
you familiar
working
with?
Do you
have any
developing
experience?
Do you have any of the following
experience that you'd like to
elaborate more on:
Automation? etc? html/css?
metadata schema creation? project
management experience? Systems
integration experience?
With which
platforms?
languages? etc.
Tell me a little bit
about yourself,
background and how
you got into or
interested in digital
asset management?
Now you know about the types of questions to ask of your potential digital asset
manager you are ready to start the interview process! Good luck!
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