The Best Interview Questions!
Christopher Rogers
Training Specialist, Facilitator, Podcast Host, Instructional Designer, Virtual Trainer, Voice-Over Artist
If you’ve got a candidate ready for a job interview, you want to ask them the best job interview questions. You want questions that will help you understand their personality, their working style and how they would gel with the culture of your organization.
See our list of the best job interview questions and start hiring better employees today!
What is your best and worst work relationship and why?
One of the important aspects of hiring any new job candidate is how they are going to get along with the people they will be working with. This will help you determine what kind of people the candidate would work well with and what kind they might have the potential for personality conflicts with.
Tell me about a mistake you made and what you did about
A commonly asked question but it is definitely worth adding to your list of best job interview questions. Everybody makes mistakes. It’s about how you respond to them that shows who you are. What you are looking for is someone who took ownership of their mistake and learned from it. But it’s also important to see what they did to remedy the problem.
What would you consider your biggest accomplishment? Walk through what you did from start to finish
This might be the most important of the questions you could ask. It will give you a sense how a person handles a project in all its aspects like their sense of ownership, teamwork skills and their ability to have an impact at an organization. An excellent answer will reflect how well they work with others, their level of confidence at work and how humble they can be and how they give credit to others.
What would you like to do that would make you happy for the rest of your career?
An important aspect of finding the right candidate is uncovering whether they would be happy or not in their new position. This question helps determine what would make your candidate happy at work, which can help determine whether they’d like the job and if they would stay for a while.
Who is someone you have looked up to in a work role and why?
This is a great way to understand their values and what they look for in their mentors and bosses. Who do they look up to and why? Do they value brains over all else, a fearless inspirational leader, or someone who flattens hierarchies? Whatever the answer, you’ll get a great sense of what their values and what they look from their organization’s senior managers