Seven Great Questions to Ask at a Job Interview

One thing I’ve learned is to ask “Where will I be sitting?” After an internship in a temporary workspace out in the hall, across from the bathrooms, I’ll never not ask that question again. I don’t care how good the job sounds, if they’re going to toss you in a closet or somewhere equally as bad, it’s not worth it.

“Have you stopped beating your wife?”

Tell me about the financial stability of the company?

If I talked to your customers what would they like about the company?

Tell me about the most successful person you have worked with that has had my position? What were the attributes that made them win?

As a manager, tell me about your style please? What drives you nuts? (better to find out now)

Describe the corporate culture?

My advice is always do your homework.
1. Download the white papers and read them and take notes. Bring them with you to the interview for reference and for reading material while you wait even if you have read them.
2. Google your interviewer
3. Look up other people in the company on linkedin with similar titles or in the same department. Look at their background and tenure. Did they stay? Did they get promoted? What types of colleges did they go to and where! Very important especially in large metro areas where many people are transplants.

“Would you like to hear what I could do to really help your department?” What a condescending, cliched, circle jerk of a thing to say. If at the END of the interview you haven’t been asked or indirectly answered this question, something is grossly wrong. How you can help IS the job, telling them such is the JOB INTERVIEW.

Great questions; however, I already ask them. And the interesting part of it is is that THEY feel threatened when I ask them as opposed to being positive. However, I will agree on the questions being asked as it will separate the wheat from the chaff.

Question 2 is best saved for a later interview. It may be information you want to have for evaluating the job and the company but it is similar to asking a question about benefits, vacation and holidays. The interviewer is most likely interested in filling a job opening not in furthering your career. “Ambitious” and “thinking ahead” are qualites you need to get your next job but not this one.

Thanks Paul and commenters! I have an interview Monday, you are all on my weekend reading list.

Ask them if they test for drugs. If they say yes, ask them if they test for PCP. If they say yes, roll your eyes and sigh dramatically.

I’m thrilled to see that someone else interviews the interviewer. As an employee, it has always been important for me to make sure that I was as much of a fit for me as it is for them. I’ve walked on several job offers because I didn’t care for the answers I received.

I’ve learned to ask, “To whom will I report?”. It is shocking how many times I am interviewed by someone other than the direct manager. Since that relationship is important for me, I want to make sure that I can get along and trust that person during the interview process.

I also have learned to say at the end of the interview, “Great. Now, what are the next steps?”. It’s a bit of a Jedi-mind trick that secures your place in the role. An interview on his/her toes will respond, “You’ll come back for a second interview” (and then I’ll ask for a date and time as I take out a pen and datebook), or “we would like to see you present”, or “I would like to see you start this Monday at 10am.”.

Whether I’m doing corporate training, a public speaking gig, or selling Avon – these tricks work for me.

Spell check please.

This is a tremendous help to me for future interviews! Thank you so much for the post and the following comments!!

It helps you to understand where the job might lead and what skills you might acquire.

That is the ugliest stock photo of hands I have ever seen!!!

Really nice post! i think I have Experienced 4 Question of them! Any way i really like your Job! keep it up!
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If you are going to ask the interviewer No. 7, you need to be well prepared and prove that you are capable of improving their business.

Addition to these question, I would like to add few closing questions which can be a critical decision whether you are selected to the next steps of the interview or we say “closing” the interview.

So how the right closing will get you the Job Offer? Check this video. http://careerconfidential.com/job-interview-tip-how-the-right-closing-will-get-you-the-job-offer/

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Sorry, but you wouldn’t get the job if I were interviewing you and you asked any of these questions. It gives me the strong impression you haven’t done your homework and are therefore not interested in the organisation. Also you appear to be asking questions for the sake of it. You’d be better off saying “When do I start?”