Do You Have Any Questions For Me?

This entry discusses how to answer questions at the end of the interview.

It is very common for interviews to end with an opportunity to ask the interviewer questions.

The interviewer is expecting you to have prepared a dazzling array of questions and not the answer to all too common response “Sorry I think you have answered everything I really want to know.”

This is a fabulous opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge about the company or industry, highlight your deep interest in the company and further emphasize your qualifications and suitability are a good fit.

It is an opportunity to show you have done your home work and really thought about working for the company.

It is also the opportunity to put your foot right in it and lose it at the winning post.

Try not to ask highly sensitive questions and probing questions which may be misconstrued as an attempt to see if there a misfit with you.

A personal dislike for me was questioning about lunch break times or holiday entitlement. Very important, but if you are looking to impress they should not be high up in your priorities.

Avoid doubts creeping into the interviewers mind about your salary expectations. If they really want you they are not (or shouldn’t) reject you over a couple of thousand pounds.

It is best to stay with simple fairly predictable questions as much as possible, and avoid letting the interviewer think you don’t know the basics of the company.

Try and drop into the preamble of a question that you had recently read an article about the company. Prepare questions that work the interviewer. Get them to talk about themselves will give you less opportunity to put your foot in it and give you plenty of opportunity to be enthusiastic.

• What are the most important corporate goals at this current time?
• What have you most enjoyed about working for this company?
• How would you describe your firms culture?
• How is your company looking to grow?
• What makes your company so good at what it does?
• How would my position fit into your company’s goals
• What do you foresee as the biggest changes to your business / products in the future?
• What have you most enjoyed about the atmosphere in the company?
• Where will the company be in 5 years?

Like a good radio interviewer they have their set of generic questions ready to put into a conversation and you don’t need to know specifics about the company to practice them.

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