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8 Best questions about the position
- May I see a job description? What are the most important responsibilities of the job? A good place to start is to ask for a job description.
- How much time should be devoted to each area of responsibility? This question asks the interviewer to identify what is most important and then to prioritize. Often interviewers will find this question very difficult because they don’t really know. But how can you succeed without agreements on what’s most important?
- What initial projects would I be tackling? Like the question above, this is another attempt to prioritize, this time looking at projects.
- What is my spending/budget authority? This question goes to how much responsibility you will have before bumping into someone else’s responsibility.
- What are you hoping to accomplish, and what will be my role in those plans? You want to know what the company’s strategic goals are and how the company hopes you will contribute.
- Presuming that I’m successful on this assignment, where else might I be of service to the company? First things first, of course, but the question will tell the interviewer that you have a long-term perspective.
- Can you please describe the management team to me? This is the most general question about the management team you will report to.
- Can you show or sketch me an organizational chart? An organizational chart is a road map to the company’s structure and how much authority you will have.