DIFFICULT QUESTIONS

The most difficult questions for the candidate are usually related with the firings and traumatic events. Whenever you have to interview this type of cases, you have to be careful about the way in which you pose the questions.

The difficult questions can be confused with provoking ones (see Chapter 1). However, it is not so. The provoking or stressing interview is a technique that has no efficiency. The object of such interviews is to observe how the postulant reacts under tension. The difficult questions don’t have that intention. The majority of the interviews include a certain amount of stress because of its own nature.

It can also seem like the some of the following questions belong to the hypothetical category, about which we have said nothing good  (Chapter 1); however, their purpose is to propose theoretical situations. If you want to “smooth” them anyway, use complementary questions: “Describe a similar situation that has happened to you” or “Do you have any anecdote to tell me about a similar situation?”

1. You currently have no job, can you tell me what happened?
2. If you were fired, was it a firing or a resignation request?
3. If you were fired, what kind of indemnity did you receive?
4. Tell me about a time in which your employer was not satisfied with your performance.
5. What management conviction did you have to quit in order to be were you are now?
6. Who has been the most difficult employer you have had and why?
7. How has your tolerance changed to accept the mistakes of your subordinates along the years?
8. Who do you think has the maximum power in your organization? How is the power transmitted inside of it (empowerment)? Why?
9. When you have to do things you dislike, do you do them first or you leave them for the end?
10. Have you ever heard anything about the company and the department that you disliked?
11. If you were about to be fired, how would you like your supervisor to manage the situation?
12. Tell me what you have learnt from your mistakes.
13. What do you think about the ethics in the current world?
14. How did you, or your management, influence the change in you last job?
15. If your supervisor tells you to do something in a way that you know is incorrect, what would you do? Do you have any anecdote to tell me about a similar situation?
16. What would you do if all the people of your department suddenly report themselves sick?
17. Your boss has assigned you a task and he has gone out of town for a week. You can’t contact him and you don’t understand the parameters clearly, what would you do? Do you have any anecdote to tell me about a similar situation?
18. You have two postulants to the same position. They both have identical qualifications and qualities in all senses, how would you decide?
19. What do prefer to listen first: good or bad news?
20. What has you supervisor done that you didn’t like?
21. Should all the business relations have established terms or deadlines?
     

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