Top 10 Questions By Dingman and Kidd

TOP 10 QUESTIONS EMPLOYERS WISH THEY HAD ASKED

By Bruce Dingman and Rich Kidd~

Everyone has regrets, but after a bad hire, those “should have asked” questions pile up quickly! While typically an employer thinks ahead of time what questions they want to ask someone in the interview process for a leadership role, hindsight can be painfully accurate. Here are some questions we as recruiters have heard employers muttering to themselves downstream from a bad hire:

1. What else should we know about you?

2. When we talk to your references what issues might they raise about you that you would want us to hear your side first?

3. What have you done for self-improvement in the last five years?

4. What have we not asked that we should have?

5. How does this job fit in your career development? What experiences have most prepared you for this next step?

6. For a few people Emotional Quotient (sometimes defined as the capacity of individuals to recognize their own, and other people’s emotions) is natural but for most it needs to be honed and developed. When we ask the direct reports from your last job on a scale of 1 to 10 to rate your EQ, how might they respond? What score would we hear if we asked colleagues from your first job? How would you explain your growth in exercising your EQ?

7. Thinking back on the bosses you’ve had, what were the characteristics you liked and disliked? And why?

8. What kind of tasks should your superiors not give you, those you don’t enjoy or areas at which you do not excel?

9. Why might this be the right job for you? And what concerns do you have about it?

10. As you look back on your last three jobs, please list several employees you have mentored, and what has happened to them since?

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Bruce Dingman is the president of The Dingman Company. He is a “generalist” working in many industries, one-third of his assignments are in hospitality or senior living, and over half for non-profit/religious/education organizations. The latter is his way of giving back to the things he believes in.

Rich Kidd is the vice president of The Dingman Company. He brings a diversity of leadership experience to the Dingman Company that spans from the business world, across the church community, and into Christian higher education.

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