Management Success Tip – Use Creative Interview Questions

Want to power up your management success? …use creative questions in interviewing – it’s a great interviewing technique!

As a former career coach, I would spend many hours preparing job candidates for interviews.  We all have that list…right… the one that says these are the questions you to which we should definitely have the answers.

Creative, zanny off beat questions are an interesting compliment to behavior interviewing.

How about throwing that candidate off on purpose? In reality asking questions they are unprepared for will go a long way in getting more honest answers and gaining some insight into their personality.

Here’s a few to consider and hey, put your creative twist on these:

—What will your colleagues miss most about you when you leave?

—What about work reminds you most about what you hated in school?

—If you worked in a big glass fish bowl, what would you do differently?

—What would your company be liked if you never worked there?

—What proverb best captures the essence of your current organization!

—What’s your idea of a utopian workplace? (Ok…if they know what utopian means…that should count for something!)

Note: some of these are sourced from the book 75 Cage Rattling Questions, by Dick Whitney

You can access the book at this link:
75 Cage Rattling Questions to Change the Way You Work: Shake-Em-Up Questions to Open Meetings, Ignite Discussion, and Spark Creativity

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