Question for a Job Interviewer
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A Question for a Job Interviewer is a job interview question for a job interviewer.
- Example(s):
- What is the overall purpose of this role (the role I am interviewing for)? What is the principal service this person provides to the organization?
- Who are the internal and external customers for your new hire? What do those folks need from the person in this position?
- What are the top items on the list of things you look for your new hire to take care of in the next ninety days?
- What kinds of 'fires' will your new hire put out before you even hear about them?
- How do you evaluate the performance of the person in this role?
- When you've hired your new arrival and they've been in the job six months, what will have gotten better for the department and/or for you personally because of the impact of your new hire?
- Which big project or initiative will your team be able to take on with the addition of your new hire that they can't take on yet?
- What are the top three action items you need your new hire to take on and accomplish in his or her first thirty days?
- What is the typical career path here for a person hired into this role?
- What is the history of this position? If it's a new position, why was it created now? If it's an existing position, where did the previous occupant of this role go?
- Your department sounds like a busy place. What would you say is the biggest obstacle in your way right now?
- How does that obstacle slow you down or keep your team from hitting its goals?
- What is the financial impact of that obstacle?
- How long has the obstacle been in your way?
- What will get better for you and your team when that obstacle is removed?
- What have you tried so far to remove the obstacle?
- What went wrong with that attempted solution? (If it had worked, the obstacle would not still be there!)
- Who else in your company is concerned about this obstacle?
- How high an organizational priority is it to remove the obstacle?
- How can the person in this role help to remove it?
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Job Interview.
References
2016
- "20 Great Questions To Ask Your Hiring Manager.” In: Forbes
- QUOTE: You'll make an impression on your hiring manager when you go to a job interview, not only by the way you answer his or her questions but also in the questions you ask your possible next boss. ...