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10 Candidate Questions that you, as a recruiter, must know how to answer
Finding and landing top talent is only going to get more difficult. A robust recruitment process and an investment in preparation for the interview are a twenty-first century leadership imperative.
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Insights from “Great Candidates Ask Great Questions”
by John O. Burdett, Orxestra® Inc., © 2020
1. As a business, why do you do what you do?
- Where and how are you striving for excellence?
- How are you going about the latter?
- How will you be different five years from now?
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2. What makes the business special?
- What are you doing to protect/nurture that capability?
- What concerns you most about what the competition is doing?
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3. How and in what ways is digitalisation changing the way the organisation does business?
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4. Assuming you have built a scorecard for this role, where is the greatest “stretch” demanded to meet future performance goals?
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5. Moving forward, what role specific leadership competencies define success in this role?
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6. How good a coach is my new boss?
- Does this role build on and extend my core capability: talent, skills, and leadership competencies?
- Will I continue to grow and develop in this role?
- How and in what ways?
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7. What constitutes a great team in your organisation?
- How do you assess team effectiveness?
- How and in what ways is “team fit” central to hire and promotion decisions?
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8. What are the organisation’s espoused values?
How do you live those values?
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9. What culture do you need to succeed tomorrow?
- How do you measure culture?
- What are you doing to make tomorrow’s culture come to life in the room today?
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10. How and what ways does the organisation give back?
How do you make a difference in people’s lives?
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