Governor recruitment: interview questions to ask

Use these interview questions when appointing a new governor (for example, a co-opted governor), but remember you can’t run an interview process for staff or parent governors.

A representative from One Education helped us to write this article.

Make sure you’re clear on what you’re looking for

As part of your recruitment process, you should have an idea of what skills you’re hoping a new governor will bring to your board.

Use these ideal skills to help drive your interview questions - but, you don't need every governor to possess every skill, so keep the questions fairly general and adapt them to each candidate’s competencies and experience.

Find out more about how to recruit co-opted governors with the skills you need.

Refer back to the application form your prospective governor completed to help shape the discussion (if you didn’t use an application form, you could ask for a