Friday, November 19, 2010

Interviewee’s questions – The dealbreaker

“Seek and you will get, knock and it shall be opened to you”. This stands the core to success in interviews. An interview is a platform for the interviewer and the interviewee to match their offering and requirements. This situation becomes stressful when the pressure to hire the right fit weighs on the interviewer and the quest to land the job becomes quintessential. The focus to create a result comes out of the meaningful discussion. It is not guaranteed that every interview will result with a job offer. Yet every interview needs to be utilised as to gain understanding about the role and move a step ahead out of the status quo. There was a discussion on the same in CiteHR with realtime experience sharing Discussion thread . In addition to this, few more questions that will help the interviewee to understand the role, are suggested below:
  1. Information Flow: How does the information flow works for this role? This gives a better idea of the reporting structure beyond what is formally shared. It shares the prime points in the flow, the decision makers and the ones who need to be tagged.
  2. Daily Schedule: How would a day in this role be? Make suggestions with tasks and actions. This would help to understand the role more than the formal job description. There would be several tasks which may not directly be mentioned in the KRA, yet would reflect during the daily schedule discussion.
  3. Escalation Matrix: Discuss an escalation to be managed in the new role. This is a quintessential question. It shares the intricate problems to be dealt in the role and brings in an opportunity to the interviewee to suggest a solution. This suggestion will reflect the interviewee’s knowledge and maturity hence make them a lead candidate.
more at http://www.citeman.com/12086-interviewees-questions-the-dealbreaker/#ixzz15mx70IuV

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