
ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS HIRE THE BEST PEOPLE
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f What are your most important long-term goals?
f Have you recently established any new objectives
or goals?
f What do you want to do with your life?
Q: If you could change one thing about your
personality with a snap of the fingers, what
would it be and why?
What do you want to hear?
A smart candidate will take a trait previously (or now)
identified as a weakness and put together a brief answer that
indicates awareness and motivation:
“Boy, I had a hard time with procrastination in
college. But I licked it because burning the midnight
oil all through exam week every semester was driving
me nuts.
“I have ...