Expert claims asking this one question in interviews is a ‘waste of time’
During an interview you need to be as efficient as possible - and wasting time is the absolute worst thing you can do.
Efficiency starts from the moment you send your CV and cover letter - here's a top tip from me, neither should be longer than one page even if it means cutting some things out of your resume because your name will be among dozens if not hundreds of other people.
Do you really think your future employer wants to turn to a second page? They're busy and while they need the best candidate for the role they're also conscious about needing to carry out their existing role.
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But if you don't care for my advice, I mean why should you? A former Spotify and EA (Electronic Arts) HR worker, Dan Space, may be able to provide you with some expert counsel.
He took to Instagram to explain why you should avoid asking the popular interview question - 'what does success look like in 30, 60, 90 days?'.
Okay, so the reason anyone would ask this would be to get a general feel for the work environment you're interviewing for, but Space explained that you won't really gain anything from it.
"This is always on the top 10 questions to make sure you ask in an interview but I don't really think it's that valuable and I think this for two big reasons," he told his almost 15,000 followers on the social media platform.
"One is that I don't think you're going to get as a candidate meaningful information that's really going to be valuable to you, and two you're not asking a question that helps you stand out.
"Like I've said with hiring managers who have three or four really really good candidates and can't make a good decision, like any of the four would do well, and in many cases they start to go the questions that the candidate asked essentially as a way to help them decide.
"And if you have four really good candidates and three ask 'what does 30, 60, 90 days success look like', and you sort of gave them what you think the predictions would look like if the person takes the role, but then one person asked a really, really provocative question that helped make them stand out... to me, that does better for you."
The video is of him talking through a recent interview he had with CNBC - where he concluded that asking 'what does success look like in 30, 60, 90 days?', is 'just a waste of time'.
So there you have it, don't ask the same questions that everyone else will probably ask - do your research and ask a question that will help you stand out.
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