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Re^2: (OT) Interviewing a potential manager

by jhourcle (Prior)
on Aug 07, 2007 at 00:00 UTC ( [id://630927]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: (OT) Interviewing a potential manager
in thread (OT) Interviewing a potential manager

Do you have any children?

It may be a regional thing (state/country), but the candidate might claim that this question is trying to get information about their age and/or marital status. If you're in a large enough organization to have an HR department, it might be worth asking them for guidelines about the types of questions to avoid.

And I'll agree on the 'why are you leaving' (or 'why did you leave', as the case may be). It can also be a hand grenade question, as sometimes people will just go off talking badly about the company/people they used to work with. For management jobs, I'd expect the answer to be mostly diplomatic.

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Another question that I seem to keep getting asked is 'have you ever been fired from a job, or left because you were told you were going to be fired?' (mostly for security forms, as opposed to in an actual interview, though) I just remember the question, as I get to answer 'Yes', and in the follow up 'why?' I get to answer 'use of sarcasm'

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