TRAPS: Watch
out! This question can derail your
candidacy faster than a bomb on the tracks – and just as you are about to be
hired.
Reason: No matter how bright you are, you cannot know
the right actions to take in a position before you settle in and get to know
the operation’s strengths, weaknesses key people, financial condition, methods
of operation, etc. If you lunge at this
temptingly baited question, you will probably be seen as someone who shoots
from the hip.
Moreover, no
matter how comfortable you may feel with your interviewer, you are still an outsider. No one, including your interviewer, likes to
think that a know-it-all outsider is going to come in, turn the place upside
down and with sweeping, grand gestures, promptly demonstrate what jerks
everybody’s been for years.
BEST ANSWER: You, of course, will want to take a good hard
look at everything the company is doing before making any recommendations.
Example: “Well, I wouldn’t be a very good doctor if I
gave my diagnosis before the examination.
Should you hire me, as I hope you will, I’d want to take a good hard
look at everything you’re doing and understand why it’s being done that
way. I’d like to have in-depth meetings
with you and the other key people to get a deeper grasp of what you feel you’re
doing right and what could be improved.
“From what
you’ve told me so far, the areas of greatest concern to you are…” (name
them. Then do two things. First, ask if these are in fact his major
concerns. If so then reaffirm how your
experience in meeting similar needs elsewhere might prove very helpful).
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