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QUESTIONS FOR SUPERSTARS

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Could I get a chance to see the team in action? Can I sit in on a team
meeting? Shadow someone for a day?
Is the interviewer willing to make the company more transparent to you?
This is a good way to find out.

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What are the biggest problems facing this department in the next six
months and in one year? What key competencies have you identified that
I will need to develop in the next six months to be successful?
Here you’re looking for the hiring manager’s hot buttons. These are the
issues against which your initial performance will be evaluated.
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What do you see in me? What are my strongest assets and possible weak-
nesses? Do you have any concerns that I need to clear up in order to be
the top candidate? What is the likelihood, in percent terms, that you will
make me an offer?
This is a bold and confident bid-for-action question that also asks for
any objections.

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What is the best/toughest question I could ask you to find out about
the worst aspects of this job? How would you answer it? If you were my
best friend, what would you tell me about this job that we haven’t already
discussed?
A last-ditch attempt to reveal negative information about the company.

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