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The document provides 10 questions to ask candidates during a job interview and describes good answers for each question. The questions address the candidate's career goals, willingness to comply with company policies, availability to work different shifts including weekends and travel, dependability, preferred work environment, examples of accomplishing goals and adapting to changes, future career aspirations, understanding of potential job frustrations, and sick day history. Good answers demonstrate professionalism, alignment with the company and job requirements, goal-setting abilities, and positive references.

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The document provides 10 questions to ask candidates during a job interview and describes good answers for each question. The questions address the candidate's career goals, willingness to comply with company policies, availability to work different shifts including weekends and travel, dependability, preferred work environment, examples of accomplishing goals and adapting to changes, future career aspirations, understanding of potential job frustrations, and sick day history. Good answers demonstrate professionalism, alignment with the company and job requirements, goal-setting abilities, and positive references.

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Questions to Ask an Employee When interviewing them for a job?

1. Where do you see yourselves in five years?


Good Answer: I would have like the person to answer in a professional manner stating her
main goal, and how he or she will achieve these to get to where they would have liked to be
in five years time.
2. This is our policy regarding smoking/dress code/alcohol and drug use while on the job. Are
you willing and able to abide by this policy?
Good Answer: The employee would have to agree with the jobs policy’s as if the person did
not then that may not be the best place for them to be working.
3. Are you able to work shifts? Graveyard shifts? Weekends? Are you available for business
travel?
Good Answer: A good answer would have to contain the amount of shifts she is willing to
work and how many hours and what time of day, and if the times did not suit the employee
then the job may not be best suited for that particular person.
4. When we call your previous employer or references what are they likely to tell us in regards
to your dependability/attendance?
Good Answer: The Answer would have to contain positive feedback, and also be certain that
her future jobs would have good recommendations of he/she.
5. In what kind of a work environment do you do your best work?
Good answer: The best answer would contain he/she’s perspective on what is there
preferred work environment is and if it was not similar to the one she was enrolling for the
boss may feel she may not be suited for this particular job.
6. Give me an example of a time when you had set a goal for yourself and tell me how you
went about accomplishing it.
Good answer: Giving an example of a goal and how you succeeded and showing your
determination
7. Tell me about a time when you were working hard to complete a task and you were asked to
leave that task before completing it and start a different job.
Good answer: giving and example of an appropriate time in a professional manner.
8. If your job progresses as you like, what would be the next step in your career?
Good Answer: Giving a reason of your next step showing determination, and goal setting.
9. What are the major frustrations of this job?
Good Answer :Give examples not being to fussy.
10. How many sick days have you taken in the past years?
Good Answer: telling the right amount of days making sure there were not to many sick
days.

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