10 Questions that you should never ask in a job interview
March 13, 2009 by
Filed under Business
These 10 questions are less suitable for a job that should never arise, unless you do not want the job.
1. “What makes your company?”
This was a reasonable question for an interview in 1950 or 1980, before the Internet existed. Currently, it is your job to investigate any company to have an interview before putting a foot in it. We need to introduce a job knowing what the company, who your competitors and what their successes (or challenges) have been reported recently.
2. “Will you check my background?”
It is amazing how often a candidate for a position does this question, causing alarm in the interviewer, instead of a more general “could you please tell me a little about their selection process from this point “. Many people have problems with his record of concern to them during their job search or are not sure how solid the references could be given a job. If you are invited to a second interview, then you can deal with any sensitive issue of its past. Asking “are you going to check my background?” makes it appear that it has something to hide.
3. “When can I apply for a pay rise?”
Companies pay people to fear than what they should pay as much as fear of more, because a person who is not paying enough in relation to their counterparts in the labor market is a person who could leave soon post. Instead of asking for its first increase before getting the job, he can ask (in a second interview) “Does your organization a conventional performance review and pay once a year.”
4. “Do you have another job available?
Job hunting requires fast thinking at the time of speaking honestly and, if a job is below your abilities, you’ll do better if he speaks with candor rather than turn to the case with this question. It does not need to discard the option is offered, might say, “job sounds interesting, but frankly, I was earning 30% more people and supervised in my previous job. Could you help me understand the career of this role? . This gives the interviewer, if being given a hint to mention another vacancy that may exist.
5. “How soon can be transferred to another job?”
When you answer this question, is announcing “I will go to the first opportunity.” If you like the work, accept it. If not for you, wait for the right opportunity. Almost all workplaces will keep you in doubt for at least a year before approving an internal transfer, so look for a job with the idea probably will not work after changing the way you had hoped.
6. “Could you tell me which lines of public transport are at your site?
Enter the Internet and find out for yourself. Problem is not possible to find the pattern that you get to work.
7. “Do you have to go on smoking breaks?
If you work in retail or a call center could apply breaks. In the rest of the work, do not ask if your urge to smoke gets so into his work that he feels the need to investigate the matter, ask your best friend or your partner to help you stop smoking as a gift for finding a new job. Many companies ban smoking on their premises and some do not like to hire smokers. Why give a possible reason for rejecting a boss?
8. “Is (my condition) covered by your insurance?”
This is a bad question for two reasons. Should not be a perfect stranger to our medical problems, especially when the person is deciding whether or not to give us a job. Ask to see a copy of the prospectus provided by the company when you make an offer. This is a bad question from a standpoint of view, only a tiny percentage of people in human resources, and no department manager, knows all the diseases covered by your insurance plan. Either way, your pre-existing condition not covered under almost any corporate plan for at least a year.
9. “They ask for a drug test?”
If you have any philosophical objection to drug testing, wait until you are asked to undergo one and express your objection. Otherwise, your question sounds more like, “do not pass such a test, so you better not ask.
10. “If you hire me, can I wait until (a period of more than three weeks from the date) to start working?”
After hire, give a firm anticipates a period of at least two weeks to notify his change of job in your current job. If you are not working, you would like to see it before. If you order too long before starting to work-unless you have a very good reason, who hired him would think, “How serious is this candidate about the job.” In any case, if you want to request an extension to the date of commencement of work, request after receiving an offer for the position. Not before.
This article was retold and it was written by Liz Ryan
