How to Answer Awkward Interview Questions
Sometimes during an interview you may encounter questions that are not related to the topic of your career or professional qualities, but are only disguised as them.
More often, of course, such questions are asked by women; for example, a recruiter may be interested in the likelihood of going on maternity leave soon and ask whether a woman is married when she plans to have children.
If you already have children, you may be asked how often they get sick, etc.
Very often, uncomfortable questions are asked in small companies where the concept of “business ethics” does not exist as such.
However, the answers to these questions are also interesting in large companies, where these questions are asked in a slightly corrected form, for example, like this: “How do you see your future in the next three to five years?”
And these questions, if you think about it, are quite natural.
You need to answer such questions in the same style: if a girl is planning on maternity leave, but not right now, but in a year or two, then you can answer something like this: “I’m not planning on leaving anytime soon.”
Outright lies in interviews should, of course, be avoided.
Sometimes "special" questions are asked to determine whether a candidate is likely to hold a leadership position in the future, and those who do not "pose a threat" to management are selected.
In my practice as a recruiter, to be honest, there have been quite a few such cases.
There are also questions that help you understand the candidate's attitude towards work.
For such purposes, the following question is often asked, for example: “Why did you leave your previous job?”
The employer wants to get a guarantee that he is hiring an adequate employee.
In general, the strategy for answering all such questions is the same: you need to prepare this answer in advance.
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