Choose useful questions for the employer
An interview is also a research opportunity: understand what the role offers you as well as explaining your experience.
Find what the listing leaves unanswered
Read the advert again and mark uncertainties. Choose topics that affect your decision, such as success measures, team structure, everyday responsibilities or working arrangements. Instead of asking for readily available information, ask for an example of how it works.
Make abstract language concrete
Pair ‘What is the culture like?’ with a behaviour question: ‘How did the team make its last important decision?’ Explore what flexibility, growth and ownership look like in daily work. Do not reduce an answer to one positive adjective.
Adapt to the conversation
You might clarify role and process early, discuss work in detail with the team and resolve terms at offer stage. Prioritise questions that could change your decision. When taking notes, label assumptions separately from things actually said.
Turn reading into an output
- Write three uncertainties that affect your decision.
- Prepare one example-seeking question for each.
- Separate answers from your interpretation in notes.
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