Headhunters’ questions are mostly according to the preferences of the customer organization. However, sometimes recruiters must know how and what to do in order to get the best candidate by both behaviour and knowledge.
Basically, headhunters’ questions are about work, skills, experience, career goals, etc. Sometimes, they also include relative questions to demonstrate abilities, interests, work style, preferences, etc. of applicants according to a relative situation.
However, a headhunter does not forget to ask the common questions related with the applicant’s knowledge, behavioural and challenging questions referenced to the work position. Plus, some more general knowledge questions about books and/or culture. And, finally headhunters want to ensure their choices, so that, they ask candidate to make their own questions in order to the headhunters can make a better and final decision according the behaviour of the applicant as a possible candidate.
Some of the most typical questions are:
- Why do you want this job?
- Why are you leaving your current company?
- What will you miss most of your current company?
- What are your expectations and personal goals for the forward five years?
- Where do you see yourself in a couple of years?
- If you die, what would you like to read on your epitaph?
- What do you think are your strengths and/or weaknesses?
- What is your greatest asset?
- When was the last time you find a solution for some troubled situation? What did you do? Did you have any regret about it?
- What did you do when you found a potential problem as an opportunity? Did you have any regret about it?
- How did you feel when you had to do something right experiencing a loss for it? What did you do next?
- Have you ever had a conflict with another individual? When? What happened? How did you feel then? What was the outcome?
- Do you work with scheduling methods? How do you work with it? Give examples.
- Do you work with prioritizing methods? What do you do when very important projects and tasks are scheduled? Give examples.
- What would you do if you were promoted? How do you select a possible successor?
- With whom would you like to be compared? With whom would not to? Why?
- What do you think are your best people's misperceptions?
- If you were me, what kind of selection process would you have chosen?
