Job seekers have many sources of assistance for interviewing, and it’s simple to learn acceptable answers to the typical questions.

For this reason even the wrong candidate for the position could answer the questions in such a way that fools you into considering he or she is a fit.

That is why is important to ask candidates questions that make them to expand on their answers, showing their thinking skills as well as their approach and job competencies.

Such questions might contain:

• If you could draw your own job, what would it look like?
• What’s your favorite part of the work you do now and why?

Green interviewers sometimes fall into the trap of permitting the interview become “free form”, spending various amounts of time on a number of questions, basing follow-up questions on how the candidates reply.

This can result in a candidate getting control of the interview and driving you where he or she wishes to go, rather than where you are able get the information you actually need.

Prepare a list of questions in advance, based on the information you require, and use it as a guide during the interview. Place each question on a separate sheet of paper and get ready one set for each candidate.