Executive Secretary Interview Question:

Explain me what sort of confidential information you dealt with and how you handled it?

Submitted by: Muhammad

This question is intended to reveal information both about your discretion and your attention to detail. What you definitely don't want to do is go into too much detail about the type of confidential information you handled. Even if the person who's interviewing you asks, it's not their information to request; nor is it yours to give. Speak in very general terms. “Because of the confidential nature of the information, I really can't go into a lot of detail about what the information was. It involved everything from business plans to legal matters to employee records. I kept paper files under lock and key. I also had password management software on my computer so that I could have a different password for everything without having to write any of them down.”
Submitted by: Muhammad