6 Interview questions to ask candidates
Asking candidates good great interview questions could help you hire the best suitable candidate faster and more efficient while building a better candidate experience. 🥳
Here are 6 interview questions to ask candidates! 👇
1. What skill do you feel you’re missing and want to learn?
Instead of asking what their biggest weakness is, 🤮 (probably one of the worst questions to ask and answer), try asking what skills they don’t have yet and wish they could have. 🙈
This question will help you understand:
Who embraces continuous learning and growth.
What they want to learn.
What they are interested in.
Who is self-aware enough to understand that there are still new skills to to be learned.
2. Tell me something about your experience/ education / personality that can help us.
This is a great question to ask in order to understand what relevant experience or background the candidate possess, 🤩 and what they would be able to bring to the company. 😎
This question will help you understand:
Their relevant experience or background.
What they will bring.
Their strength.
Why you should hire the candidate.
3. If you could start a business what would you start? 🤔
This question is not asked frequent enough and most likely not asked at all! 😩 Why should you, the recruiter, ask this question when you want candidates employees to stay with you forever, and ever, and ever… The reality is only a few people stay within a company for 5-10 years! 🤯
This question will help you understand:
Their creative side.
Their interests and passions.
The work they like to do and the people they would like to work with.
Their hopes and dreams.
4. What was the best working relationship you’ve had with a manager and why did it work so well?
This question could help you navigate if the candidate fit the company,🙌 and who (internally) would be the best manager to help the candidate thrive if you decide to hire. 💪
This question will help you understand:
Their value.
The type of culture they thrive in.
How to successfully manage the candidate.
Who (internally in the team) should manage the candidate.
Their collaborative approach.
If they are a team player.
5. What was your biggest achievement at your last job and what was your role in it?
This is a great question ask in order to get a better understanding of what the candidate value and how willing they are to share the credit. 😅
This question will help you understand:
Their value.
Their strength.
Their collaborative approach.
If they are a team player.
If they are willing to share credits.
6. This job pays between A and B, is that something you are okay with?
Let’s make salary conversations more open and direct 🙌, it will save you time, energy and frustration from employees due to pay gaps, (true story passed on previous experience!)😥
This question will help the candidate understand:
Your company’s fair and equal compensation plan.