Interview questions
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Pretty simple question, if you ever interview what questions do you ask? I don't mean technical questions or ones about experience and qualifications, I mean more to find out more about the applicant as a person and find out their mindset.
One I use is tell us about your last weekend from 5pm Friday to bed on Sunday and don't miss anything out (if you are did you cook, if you went to football who with? If you went shopping what shops and what did you buy? This works quite well but I wondered if anybody had any other suggestions apart from the old "where do you see yourself in 5 years time".
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One I use is tell us about your last weekend from 5pm Friday to bed on Sunday and don't miss anything out (if you are did you cook, if you went to football who with? If you went shopping what shops and what did you buy? This works quite well but I wondered if anybody had any other suggestions apart from the old "where do you see yourself in 5 years time".
Thanks
Tony Angelino said:
Pretty simple question, if you ever interview what questions do you ask? I don't mean technical questions or ones about experience and qualifications, I mean more to find out more about the applicant as a person and find out their mindset.
One I use is tell us about your last weekend from 5pm Friday to bed on Sunday and don't miss anything out (if you are did you cook, if you went to football who with? If you went shopping what shops and what did you buy? This works quite well but I wondered if anybody had any other suggestions apart from the old "where do you see yourself in 5 years time".
Thanks
What is the objective of asking such a question, and what are you looking to learn from the response? One I use is tell us about your last weekend from 5pm Friday to bed on Sunday and don't miss anything out (if you are did you cook, if you went to football who with? If you went shopping what shops and what did you buy? This works quite well but I wondered if anybody had any other suggestions apart from the old "where do you see yourself in 5 years time".
Thanks
When I worked in manufacturing, one manager would ask interviewees to describe an approach and process to some basic DIY such as fitting a lightbulb. The objective was to understand their approach to risk assessment, how methodical they are in their approach, what issues they foresee and how they address them.
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If the company is a manufacturing company and the role is an engineering type role, I liked to hand them one or 2 fairly simple products from the range and tell the applicant that the product is made by a competitor and we would like to rengineer and improve the product in order to sell our own version of it and ask how they would change and improve the product to do that.
I also do something similar where I ask them what processes they think has gone in to manufacturing the product.
I could t care less if a person goes home on a Friday and immediately switches his Xbox on and not turn it off again till Sunday evening, it's his free time and if it means he comes in to work on a Monday morning ready for work and does a good job then so be it.
I also do something similar where I ask them what processes they think has gone in to manufacturing the product.
I could t care less if a person goes home on a Friday and immediately switches his Xbox on and not turn it off again till Sunday evening, it's his free time and if it means he comes in to work on a Monday morning ready for work and does a good job then so be it.
BoRED S2upid said:
Are you serious with that question? Don't leave anything out makes you sound like a proper perv especially if your interviewing a woman. It has nothing to do with the job or their ability to do it.
Just read it back and it does sound a bit creepy! We are generally interviewing people for sales based rolls in a building products distribution industry so we don't generally get any women applicants, it's very male orientated. Don't people check their out their candidates on Facebook to try get an insight into them?
If you were a kitchen appliance what would you be?
I always ask about family. ie. do you have kids etc. It's always a good lightener and you get a good feel for somebody when they're talking about their kids. It also gives me an instant insight as to their personal responsibilities. Generally, I am more likely to employ a father (I run a construction company so no female applicants so far) with duties to his family than a single bloke who goes out on the lash most evenings. A little hypocritical of me maybe as I was not a father until 45 and went to the pub every night for years!
I always ask about family. ie. do you have kids etc. It's always a good lightener and you get a good feel for somebody when they're talking about their kids. It also gives me an instant insight as to their personal responsibilities. Generally, I am more likely to employ a father (I run a construction company so no female applicants so far) with duties to his family than a single bloke who goes out on the lash most evenings. A little hypocritical of me maybe as I was not a father until 45 and went to the pub every night for years!
Tony Angelino said:
Just read it back and it does sound a bit creepy! We are generally interviewing people for sales based rolls in a building products distribution industry so we don't generally get any women applicants, it's very male orientated.
Don't people check their out their candidates on Facebook to try get an insight into them?
A male based industry, try to get a female to sell to them!Don't people check their out their candidates on Facebook to try get an insight into them?
I personally feel these type of questions are really important in the modern recruitment process so as to try and work out what sort of person you are really hiring. It's all about trying to identify people with the right attitudes, not just BS through standard interview questions which often doesn't actually tell you anything about a person.
We now recruit almost exclusively on the attitude of the person rather than experience and have in place a really comprehensive 3 month training programme to support new recruits. Our business culture has improved, the number of staff leaving has dropped and our productivity has increased since we have started doing this.
We now recruit almost exclusively on the attitude of the person rather than experience and have in place a really comprehensive 3 month training programme to support new recruits. Our business culture has improved, the number of staff leaving has dropped and our productivity has increased since we have started doing this.
Foliage said:
Tell me about your greatest achievement so far in life?
Well, ten years ago, finally I managed to to become a father, but to be honest I'm a bit suspect as to whether it really was my swimmer... I mean the hands and the feet look correct, no really they do, but the eyes, the eyes just leave me wondering. I haven't quite managed to pluck up enough courage for a full DNA test yet... Foliage said:
What is your most treasured possession and why?
My most treasured possession is my ability spot a conflict of interest and dig down to resolve this to the satisfaction of everyone concerned. I'm also pretty good at spotting ridiculousness, though it often offends when I point this out.(Do I get the job?)
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