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n When are you happiest?
n What upsets you?
n What is your preferred reward?

Level of commitment

n How long do you plan to be in this position if it is offered?
n What are the next steps in your career plan?
n What is your ultimate goal?
n What do you see as the benefits of a loyal workforce?
n How should loyalty be rewarded?
n In an ideal world where anything is possible what would you be

doing today?
n Do you have life goals?
n Do you write them down?
n How often do you check your progress against your goals?
n How do you measure personal success?
n What do you dream about?
n What do you have in mind when you think “some day I’ll . . .”?

If creativity and original thinking are important

n What is the most creative thing that you have ever done?
n If you were to write a book what would it be about?
n What did you dream of when you were a kid?
n Do you enjoy fantasy?

To bring things to a conclusion

n What would you like to ask me that we haven’t covered?
n Why, after all that I have asked, do you still want this job?
n Why are you the right person for this job?
n What do you think that you bring to us that we need and don’t yet

have?
As the law expands there will be an increasing number of things that you
cannot ask. Questions that relate to age, sexual orientation and ethnicity
are increasingly, and rightly, taboo. The rule, however, remains simple:
only ask questions that lead to uncovering information that is totally rele-

50 Key management questions