Monday, November 09, 2020
5 creative questions to ask at your next job interview
Business Insider: To ace a job interview, you don't just have to answer questions well — you also have to ask them. But posing boilerplate questions won't make you stand out from other job candidates, and it won't help you sniff out whether an employer would be a good fit, either. By spending some time thinking of creative questions to ask in an interview, you'll be doing yourself two favors. One, it'll show the employer that you went the extra mile and that you actually care about getting this job. Two, these kinds of questions can uncover some valuable information that might not have come up otherwise.
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This article provides some great questions to ask in job interviews. While I am not the biggest fan of the phrasing in some of the questions, I like what they are trying to get after. I am especially drawn to question 5, “What has the company done to help you further your own professional development.” I think this is an important question to ask, and it can be asked to pretty much anyone in the company. It will really tell you what your future looks like if you work there. It can relay opportunities to take advantage of potential for advancement or other time-honored adjustments. Some of these are other questions are great too, like this question about core values. It will tell you a lot about how interactions may be and what the company values in its employees. These are important things to know because it would be awful to accept a job and find out that the companies core values are only about making money and they work you into the ground. This is sadly, not unheard of. I definitely recommend this article and I know I will read it again right before I take my next job interview.
I think this article offered some very unique questions that I would not have necessarily thought of on my own. It is definitely true that so many questions are just used over and over again, thus losing their impact and hope for a genuine answer. Therefore I think it is great to have some unique questions on hand that really demonstrate that you want to know about what the reality of working for that company would be like. However, I do think it is really important to strike the balance between being confident in your abilities and not being desperate for a position, while also not coming off as over confident. As much as you want to sell your abilities, you also need to sell your personality and demonstrate that you are a good person to work with. I think some of these questions if phrased the wrong way might come off as over confident, and it is prudent to ask them in the right way.
I think this article asked some good questions. I don’t know if they are worded well but if I was to use any of them, I would tailor them to the interview. I think these are five questions that everyone should ask before doing an interview. I think making sure your values align with the company you are applying to is important and even if you do ask them in the interview I think it is important to do this research before the interview. This will help tailor questions to be like how does your company display the value of X or W that is written about in the mission statement or value statement/vision statement. Also in the world of theatre, I don’t know how many hiring managers exist/how many people who are doing the interview aren’t then doing the being the boss role. I think hiring managers and HR departments are really great at improving the job process. So some of these questions might feel very uncomfortable to ask a future boss. Also, I agree with Bridget that asking these questions in the wrong way can lead to a person not getting a job. I think these questions are good though at making sure a person is getting a job at a company that they will actually want.
Interviews are so terrifying to the point that I think the interviewee forgets that they are also supposed to be determining if this is the right fit for them. I know, personally, whenever I'm doing interviews, the only thing that I'm concerned about is presenting myself to them. I do my research before applying, so once I apply, I already think that it's a good fit. Whenever we get to the point where they ask, "do you have any questions for me," I tend to stop in my tracks because, even though I may have lots of questions, they become lost in the moment. This article provides some really good ones. My favorite from the list is the one on professional development. Even as someone who is young in their career, I don't think that I think about that often enough in terms of the people who are currently working with those companies. It's so easy to look around and see what the workers are providing to the company, but it is very important to factor in what the company is doing for the workers in terms of professional growth. I suppose it can be an awkward topic if it leans towards you thinking about yourself beyond the company as you are trying to get in, but I do think it's something important to discuss, especially since one of the main interview questions tends to be, "what do you have to add to out company," or something along those lines.
I’ve never been very good at asking questions in general, whether it be in class, to other people, or at interviews. It’s probably from some sort of conditioning that’s made me get a sort of “answer when spoken to, only ask things when absolutely necessary” paranoia in my head. I always have to think for a good amount of time about the questions I want to ask and write them down so I can remember to say them. So because of that, this article was pretty helpful in getting ideas for that, definitely presenting some things that I would never have thought of. Especially number two and five. I think it’s an interesting idea to ask about what advice they’d give to the person in the job as sort of a headstart. And like some of the other commenters have said, the fifth one seems really interesting as someone who’s just starting out asking someone who’s probably had much more experience and development. I’m not sure if all of these questions would work in all interview settings, but I guess one would obviously need to gauge the company first.
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