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57 QUESTIONS TO DETERMINE THE ADAPTABILITY OF THE CANDIDATE
The key to successfully integrate a new person to the organization is that they should get adapted to the position, meaning; they should cover the requirements of the profile including their adaptation to the organization.
Work interview is a process to determine if the candidate really has the minimum abilities of preparation in the specific areas as for example, budget and control, marketing and sales or computer sciences and technology.
1. Your occupation is …
2. In your specialty, who do think are the most important professionals? Do you admire any of them? Why?
3. What are your objectives in the long term?
4. What can you do for us if we hire you?
5. What kind of a leader are you? Please, give examples.
6. Who is your boss? What position do they have? Who do they report to?
7. What kind of a leader is your boss? Give me examples.
8. What is the style of management of your current job?
9. Do you think that empowerment can be transferred in your current company? What is your opinion about it?
10. Describe a typical day on your previous job.
11. Describe a situation in which you have to fulfill predetermined terms, why did it happen?
12. Tell me about some situation in which you couldn’t overcome a difficulty, how did you feel? Why do you think you couldn’t do it?
13. What do you think about workaholic people?
14. What would you say if I told you that our company doesn’t have a 9 to 17 hours culture? Or any other phrase that expresses the strict fulfillment of schedules.
15. Do you prefer a formal or informal relation with your team?
16. Do you prefer to talk to someone or you prefer to send a memo or an e-mail?
17. How do you motivate people?
18. Describe a situation in which you have made a mistake and how did you manage it?
19. What are the most important characteristics to be a good manager? Do you have them?
20. You were a manager in … describe your style of leadership there.
21. What are your decision margins?
22. What results did you get? How did you measure the results?
23. What kind of references do you think you will give from your last employer? Why?
24. If you don’t like your current employers and they consider you an excellent worker, why do you think things are like that?
25. The candidate who gets this job will work with highly trained people who have been in the company for a long time, how would you adapt yourself to them?
26. Can you describe a situation in which you have had to present a project with difficulties because other people had a unfavorable previous judgment?
27. Give examples of the different resources you have used when you try to convince someone to cooperate with you?
28. Tell me about a situation that you consider a failure.
29. Tell me about a situation that you consider a failure of your boss, a politic of the company or something similar. How did you feel? Do you think you could have provided something to prevent it? If the answer is affirmative, why didn’t you do it?
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