What kind of questions do you ask in an interview?
Has the interviewer not known the answer?
If so - that's more than likely why you didn't get that job.
No one wants to be made to look like a fool and if your interviewer doesn't know the answer - that's more than likely how you made them feel - especially if a peer or their boss was in the meeting.
How do you avoid?
Ask open ended leading questions to get to the bottom of what you want to know?
Walk your interviewer down a path. Casually.
For example.
You want to know where you'll be spending your time while doing this job.
Who doesn't want to know that.
Some people say: where will I be spending the majority of my time.
Other say: where do you spend the majority of your time.
The interviewer gets to talk about themselves and tell you what they do every day.
A follow up question is: what do you see me being able to take off your plate?
And bam.
You've made it about them - about helping them - you've gotten a more accurate answer - you haven't asked a question that they don't know because it was about what they do - and now you have information to make a decision on if an opportunity is right for you.
Try it out.
And good luck out there.
HR Director | VP of HR | Author |Manufacturing | hospitality | Healthcare | Warehousing | 24 years | Bilingual | Labor Relations | Employee relations | Multi-Location
2 周Are there cameras here and does anyone monitor them? ?? I try to make all of my questions about them or their area. (reporting structure, pain points, relationship between ops and HR, do they do engagement surveys and if so what were their major issues and what do they feel I can do to help fix it)