Knowing what questions to ask on a job interview is
often more an issue of knowing which questions are NOT
acceptable to ask on a job interview. Typically, there
are three categories of questions that you should not
ask if you wish to make a good impression on the
interviewer. The first category of questions that you
should avoid if possible is the subject of money.
During your job interview, no good can come from
asking how much the job pays, how much the manager
makes, how the bonuses and incentive structure works
or anything of that nature.
Sure, it seems strange to think that of all the
questions to ask on a job interview, the ones which
are of the most importance to you are off limits, but
that is the way job interview work. Job interviews,
you see, are founded in a large part on a pleasant
fiction. You and the interviewer both try to pretend
that you are interested in the job for its own sake,
not money. You pretend that you are motivated by
challenge, professional growth, being part of a team
and similar drives. The interviewer pretends that he
or she is part of a team that is looking for people
who go to work each day in order to display and
cultivate their professionalism. The reality: that if
it weren’t for the paycheck you wouldn’t leave your
home until noon, has no place in the interview
process.
More Questions to Ask on a Job Interview
Another set of questions to ask on a job interview
that you should avoid includes anything related to the
shortcomings of the existing team. Even though the
company is looking to hire a new person because the
current members are all addicted to sniffing glue so
heavily that they can’t stay awake longer than three
hours at a stretch, the interviewer will never tell
you that. He or she has loyalty to his or her team and
does not want to be put in the embarrassing position
of having to say disparaging things about his or her
people. The last set of questions NOT to ask includes
questions that you could easily find the answer for
with a bit of research before the interview. Asking
these questions makes you look stupid or lazy, perhaps
even both.
If you avoid these kinds of questions to ask in a job
interview, you should be fine. What issues or
questions came up for you as you researched the
company? What do you need to know for sure before you
could commit to the company? These are good questions
to ask. Also it is good to ask questions that give the
interviewer’s personal opinion, such as asking why he
or she came to the company. These can give a more
candid appraisal of the company’s worth, as well as
get the interviewer talking about him or herself for a
bit of a break from the interrogation of an interview.
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