7 Difficult Questions to Ask Candidates at a Job Interview
Job interviews are your only chance to meet an applicant and find out if they have the personality,
character, and skills to make a great employee.
But the job interview is only as useful as the...
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7 Difficult Questions to Ask Candidates at a Job Interview
Job interviews are your only chance to meet an applicant and find out if they have the personality,
character, and skills to make a great employee.
But the job interview is only as useful as the questions you
ask.
When you conduct interviews, it’s important that you ask tough questions that will bring out a
person’s true nature.
If your questions are too easy, an intelligent but not necessarily qualified candidate
is going to coast through them with platitudes and clichés, making it difficult to find out any meaningful
information.
Questions for Applicants
• “What are your three greatest weaknesses?”
The greatest weakness question has become cliché, and most candidates are already prepared to answer it
with some meaningless answer that they researched online.
If you want to really challenge them, up the
ante.
Force them to continue to think about what their weaknesses might be and see how they conduct
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