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Re: What Are Your Best Interview Questions?

AustraliaWorks — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:10:30 -0000

hey mark, this is a great article and such amazing insight into these questions and why, anyway if you have a moment please also check this list i compiled of the 50 most commonly asked interview questions, why they are asked, any hidden motives and exactly how to answer the questions!
50 most common interview questions and answers

Re: What Are Your Best Interview Questions?

C. Hays — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:39:00 -0000

As a volunteer alumni interviewer for Penn applicants, I find this one opens up some interesting windows: "If you didn't have to work to earn a living, what would you do?" I try to build my own answers into my day. Thanks, Max, for the gift of all your insights and inquiries.

Re: What Are Your Best Interview Questions?

maxkalehoff — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:37:16 -0000

Thanks Adam. Indeed, some of the best people I ever worked with answered the
spare-time question with "I go home and do similar stuff because that's what
my passion is." Not negating balance, but emphasizing that passion and work
are aligned.

Re: What Are Your Best Interview Questions?

Adam Singer — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:06:30 -0000

Fantastic Max, I loved this. I especially like the part about obsession - it's his passion, and we shouldn't think that is dysfunctional at all.

Re: What Are Your Best Interview Questions?

Jeff Ogden — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:41:01 -0000

Good post, Max. I think the quality of people is Job One in companies today. Questions are important, but I also think companies need to think deeply about the personality characteristics of top performers -- not just past experiences or education. In addition, top people can be found in unusual places. My boss for seven years, Robert Greifeld, worked his whole career in technology, yet he has been the CEO of NASDAQ OMS for the same amount of time and has been hugely successful. Most companies would have never considered Bob -- that would have been a mistake.