The questions you ask should be designed to get the information you want to know to help you decide whether you want to accept an offer, should one be presented to you. Asking questions for any other reason (such as to make yourself look smarter or more engaged, or whatever) is pretty pointless.
The sorts of things that I would want to know about any job I was considering would include things like:
What the managerial and communication "style" of my boss and peers is;
What sort of people have been in the role I'm taking before me, how long did they have the job, and why aren't they doing it any more;
What the likely future growth opportunities are;
An indication of the means by which my performance will be assessed, and what good/bad scores will be;
What I'm expected to achieve in my first day/week/month/quarter; and
Who the key stakeholders are in helping me to be effective in my role.
Those are just the things that apply to *any* job at all. For the sorts of positions I'd be looking at now (managerial positions) I'd be asking things around budget control, independence of decision making, and the quality and history of the people I'd be managing (amongst a zillion or so other things).
Overall, you need to think about what the key factors you will consider when deciding whether to take a particular job, and craft questions around that.
Submitted by Jared Hassell on Wednesday April 17th, 2013 8:52 am
THANKS!
My issue in interviews has been that I become rigid and nervous. I know this about myself, now that I've video taped it, so I can change.
I'm trying to be better about making it a conversation about me working there, rather than memorized answers that I can't remember.
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Public opinion is a weak tyrant to that of private thought." HD Thoreau Walden
Really depends on what you want to know
The questions you ask should be designed to get the information you want to know to help you decide whether you want to accept an offer, should one be presented to you. Asking questions for any other reason (such as to make yourself look smarter or more engaged, or whatever) is pretty pointless.
The sorts of things that I would want to know about any job I was considering would include things like:
Those are just the things that apply to *any* job at all. For the sorts of positions I'd be looking at now (managerial positions) I'd be asking things around budget control, independence of decision making, and the quality and history of the people I'd be managing (amongst a zillion or so other things).
Overall, you need to think about what the key factors you will consider when deciding whether to take a particular job, and craft questions around that.
This is awesome
THANKS!
My issue in interviews has been that I become rigid and nervous. I know this about myself, now that I've video taped it, so I can change.
I'm trying to be better about making it a conversation about me working there, rather than memorized answers that I can't remember.
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Public opinion is a weak tyrant to that of private thought." HD Thoreau Walden