For an Executive Assistant to the Managing Director at Rams Real Estate, with only ~2 years’ experience, I would focus less on polished EA experience and more on maturity, judgment, ownership and ability to operate in a high-trust environment.

Key areas to assess

AreaWhat you should look forHow to test it

1. Executive maturityComfortable interacting with senior people; composed, not intimidatedPut them in a simulated MD interaction with an impatient senior stakeholder

2. Judgment & discretionKnows what is confidential, what can be shared, and what needs escalationGive 5 situations and ask: “What would you tell the MD? What would you handle yourself?”

3. PrioritisationCan distinguish urgent vs significant; doesn't simply pass everything to MDGive 8 competing requests arriving simultaneously and ask them to sequence them

4. OwnershipTakes a task from instruction → follow-up → closure without repeated promptingAsk for an example where they had to chase multiple people to get something completed

5. Follow-throughExcellent at reminders, tracking, pending lists and closing loopsGive a mock project with 6 pending actions and see how they create a tracker

6. CommunicationCrisp emails, WhatsApp messages, calls and verbal updatesGive a messy situation and ask them to communicate it to the MD in 3 lines

7. Attention to detailDates, names, numbers, commitments, meeting details,



documentsGive a deliberately error-filled calendar/email/document and ask them to identify issues

8. Calendar managementUnderstands that the MD's time is a scarce resourceGive a day's calendar with conflicting meetings and ask them to redesign it

9. ProactivityAnticipates what the MD will need rather than waiting for instructionsAsk: “Your MD is travelling tomorrow. What would you proactively check today?”

10. Business understandingInterest in understanding real estate, projects, sales, finance and people—not just administrationAsk them to explain how they would learn the business in their first 30 days

11. Stakeholder managementCan deal with employees, customers, vendors, senior management and external people diplomaticallyRole-play someone demanding immediate access to the MD

12. Technology & organisationStrong Excel, PowerPoint, email, calendar, Teams/Zoom/WhatsApp, document management; ideally AI toolsGive a practical 30-minute task rather than relying on self-rating

13. Energy & resilienceEA role can be unpredictable; needs flexibility without becoming flusteredAsk about a situation where priorities changed suddenly

14. Personality fitPleasant but assertive; neither overly submissive nor over-familiarObserve how they disagree or push back during the interview

15. Learning agilityAt 2 years, this is particularly importantAsk: “Tell me something you learnt in the last 6 months without anyone asking you to.”

📌 Executive Assistant to Managing Director (India)
🏢 Rams Real estates
📍 India