Hey there, welcome to another post that will greatly help you. And in this post, I want to give you five questions that you should ask in your next job interview. You need to gather some information to decide whether the job is the right career choice for you and whether this particular company is a good fit for you and these questions will help you do just that. The last thing you want to do is go through all the effort of job searching only to end up in a place that is so terrible it sucks the joy in life out of you, So these five questions will help you avoid that and make an informed decision. In the course of this post, I will give you the questions themselves as well as what information you can get out of them.

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Back to the interview subject at hand, I want to preface this by saying that you don’t have to wait until the end of the interview when the interviewer says, do you have any questions for you to ask any of these questions? It doesn’t have to be them interrogating you the whole time. Ideally, an interview is going to be a two-way street, a bit of a back and forth conversation where they’re seeing if you’re a good candidate and you are seeing if they’re a good place to work in, so don’t be afraid to ask any of these questions at any point in the interview. You’re interviewing them as well.

Now let’s get to the questions:

1. Can you describe to me a typical day or a typical week in this position?

This question serves two purposes. Firstly, it gives you a better idea of what your responsibilities will be and what you will be expected to do, which is always a pretty good thing to know. And secondly, it will show whether they know what it is that you’re going to be doing, whether they have a well-defined job description and it’s worth looking out for that. Because if the job description is a bit loose, or it is not well defined, some employers will take advantage of that and the list of your responsibilities will keep growing the longer you work there while your paycheck will most likely remain the same.

2. What are some standout qualities of previous employees who succeeded in this position?

This question itself sounds a bit like what qualities those successful employees possess, but that’s not the whole truth. The actual question is what good qualities did those previous employees possess that actually got noticed by the management and were considered good. This question will let you know what the good qualities are and what the employees actually get to notice, and then if you have them, what qualities you should emphasize in yourself, either for the rest of this interview or in the next rounds of interviews.

And if you get asked the question, like why should we hire you or sell yourself, playing into those qualities will allow you to craft a much stronger response.

3. Where do you see the successful candidate for this role in three to five years?

And there’s nothing magical here. This is just a straight-up question to find out if there’s upward mobility, and if there’s hope for advancement in the future, this question can help you figure out whether this could be a place for you to stay for a while, or if it’s just an intermediate step in your career.

4. What are your expectations for this role in the first six to 12 months?

And this question is all about finding out and managing the expectation. What does your boss consider to be a good performance over the first six to 12 months? Because at times a company is in a proverbial sinking ship with lots of holes in the hole, and it’s slowly filling up with water and going under, and they want to get that one person in who will fix everything in the first six to 12 months. And if you find yourself in a place where your potential future boss is expecting four people’s worth of results out of you for a single paycheck, have a real hard think about whether it’s worth working there.

5. What is your management style?

And it’s no secret that most people quit their jobs because they think their bosses suck. Not because they think their job sucks. And it’s really nice to get a glimpse into what your potential manager is like. Before you actually have to work for them and use your intuition with this one. If something sounds a bit off, if something’s not quite right, chances are you won’t like what happens once you start working there.

There you have it, these are the five questions that you should ask in your next job interview and I hope this post helps you nail your next interview and find a job at a company that you’re actually happy to work for. If you have any questions, you can always leave them in the contact us section and as I said, I’ll be replying to every one of them.