Interview Questions For Culture

From: Culture Fanatics (edited)

The question I always start with: 

“Without using the words ‘culture’ or ‘people’ tell me why you want to work here”?

I want an in-depth answer as to what attracted them to us.

Then I tell the candidate our 5 core values.

I ask them to tell me the one they relate to the most and a time that it was compromised.

Another favorite question: 

“Tell me about a time that you helped someone although you didn’t necessarily think they deserved it”.

My Comment: Anyone who is looking for a job primarily because she needs a job is going to have to lie at these interviews.

Recruiters Are Not Transparent

I’ll often see a recruiter online bragging about how transparent she is with candidates.

So, I’ll ask her, “If the hiring manager rejected a candidate because he didn’t like her voice, would you tell her that?

"Imagine he said, ‘She’s very intelligent but if I had to listen to that all day, I’d shoot myself.’ Would you pass that on?”

Of course, the answer is always “No.”

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A Question for The Hiring Manager

Based on: Arnie Fertig

Interviewer: "Do you have any questions for me?"

Don't ask:
How did I do?
Will I be invited back for another interview?
What happens next?
When do you expect to make a decision?
When do I start?
How much will you pay me?
What are the benefits?
How much vacation?

Spend the time selling yourself. Say:

Let's assume that I've been working for you for a year -- and you have just given me a great performance review. 

What would I have accomplished to earn that kind of review?

When you know what's important you know if you have any strengths that wd help reach these goals and you can mention them.

If you don't, don't pretend you do.

Do Interviewers Disagree?

Take a look at the judgements of the third presidential debate.

McCain looked and sounded like a man who is floundering and doesn't know what to do about it.

-- Editorial, The Age (Australia)

In my mind McCain won the last debate by some margin

-- Ron Liddle, TimesOnline (England)

Presumably both writers are well-informed, politically. Liddle, who supports Obama, was a speechwriter for the Labour party in England. And, yet, they disagree.

What could possibly account for it? And does this disagreement reflect something that might happen when a candidate meets a number of stakeholders within the same firm?

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