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CHAPTER 2

QUESTIONS

YOU SHOULD

NEVER INITIATE

DON’T GO THERE

This book is focused on helping you to identify and customize questions
that will help you look good in the interview and secure a job offer. To
that end, an almost boundless universe of questions about the job, the
company, and the industry awaits you.
But there is set of questions that you should generally avoid initiating
until two things are true. First, the interviewer initiates them (and some-
times not even then). Second, you have either the job offer in hand or a
serious commitment of interest from your prospective employer.
Remember, your goal is to get a job offer. These are questions that
cannot help you advance this agenda, but could seriously derail your
efforts. Some of these questions are important, and you should defi-
nitely ask them, but not now.

COMPENSATION
With few exceptions, it is never in your interest to initiate questions
about salary and related compensation issues such as benefits, vacation,

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