How Not To Ask Questions
It is extremely important to ask your
potential employer
questions during the job interview. What you ask the employer obviously
matters. It is also important to understand how to ask these questions
to
employers and not to do poorly. Ask questions badly will hurt you just
as much
during the job interview as not asking any at all. Below are some bad
questions
to ask during the job interview.
There are questions that you can
ask during the job
interview that can make you appear self centered and not concerned
about the
well being of the potential employer. The bad questions to ask during
the job
interview would be regarding salary, benefits, and fringe benefits
during the
first interview. Keep these questions until the end of the second
interview.
During
the job interview you want
to speak about your strengths and why you are the right person for the
position. You do not want to reveal weaknesses and why you are not the
right
person for the job. By asking bad questions during the job interview
you can
reveal those weaknesses. A good example question of this is “Does this
position
have to meet a lot of deadlines on a regular basis?” This question to
the
interviewer can very easily be taken as that you have issues meeting
deadlines.
If this is a weakness of yours you do not want to start that
conversation.
As in
most things in life it is
not what you say but how you say it. Many time it is the tone in which
the
applicant asks the questions to the employer that hurts them. Your tone
can be
both the words you chose and your voice you chose to use to ask those
questions. It is very important to be aware of both. Remember to be
professional and polite but also assertive. Do not come across as if
you are
grilling the interviewer.
Not
listening during the job
interview can be easily demonstrated by the questions you ask the
employer. A
very easy way to hurt yourself with a question you ask during the job
interview
is by asking the interviewer a questions as if it was a new topic, when
it has
already been thoroughly covered by the interviewer. The proper thing to
do is
give a brief summary of what has been discussed on the topic. From that
summary
ask the interviewer questions that clarify what you heard or move on to
the
next topic.
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