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examples of the kinds of questions you should consider pos-
ing during a telephone interview. (You can conduct a more
extensive phone interview by using the questions that appear
later in this book.)
Open-ended question: What do you enjoy most about work-
ing as a ____?
Open-ended question: What do you like least about it?
Probing question: Think of a specific time when you faced
a challenge in the area of ____. Can you tell me what steps you
took to overcome that challenge?
Question that isn’t a question: It would really help me to
have some idea of what prompted you to apply for this position,
and how you ...