5 Creative Questions to Ask While Interviewing Potential Employees | The Journey
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Date: 2020-10-14

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0:14 Creative interview questions
1:00 Can you pitch this question to me as if I'm a potential client?
1:49 Tell me about a project that didn't work out
2:56 If you had $100,000 to start your own business, what would you do with it?
3:44 Who is your role model and why?

We’ve all sat across the table from a prospective employer and heard those tried and true questions: “What is your greatest strength and weakness?” Or, “Why are you leaving your current role?”. For those wanting to get the job, it’s easier than ever to research the best responses to these questions. There are countless blog posts or YouTube videos detailing the best answers, tips, and tricks to be better at job interviews.

However, as a hiring manager, maybe your interviewing skills need improvement as well. If candidates are coming to the interview better prepared, you should be too. There are creative questions out there that will not only keep the interview process interesting for you and the candidate but also reveal an aspect of your potential new employee’s personality that would typically go unexplored. 

Move away from the typical, “Where do you see yourself in five years?” and take a look at some creative alternatives to the standard job questions that just might lead you to discover your next rockstar employee.

1) “Can you pitch this company to me as if I’m a potential client?”
This question covers a few bases. First and foremost, it’s a creative way to see whether or not your candidates have done their research prior to the interview. Do they have a basic understanding of what your business does? And more importantly, can they articulate what differentiates you from the competition?

Also ask this question of the internal-facing candidates, too. It will give you insight into why they’re interested in working for your company, and it might give you a sense of how their passions align with your business’s mission and goals.

2) “Tell me about a project that didn’t work out. What went wrong?”
When a candidate talks about a past failure, do they frame it as a learning opportunity, or do they try to place blame on former colleagues or outside forces? 

Of course, you’re ideally looking for people who accept responsibility for their role in the failure but don’t beat themselves up over it. The person who’ll be the strongest addition to your team is the one who is introspective about past mistakes and uses what they learned there to do better the next time.

3) “If you had $100,000 to start your own business, what would you do?”
This allows you to assess multiple aspects of your candidate’s personality and skill set. First, it gives you a glimpse into what makes this person tick. If a candidate envisions themselves starting their own business, the type of company they say they’d establish will point to their outside interests and areas of expertise.

Additionally, the question gives you a sense of their analytical and problem-solving skills. 
You’ve given them a set dollar amount to work with, so how will they allocate and budget those funds for their imaginary business? This will give you a sense of their financial savvy and show where their professional priorities lie.

4) “Who is your role model and why?”
At face value, this might seem like a softball question. However, the way the interviewee chooses to answer this question can actually show a great deal about their value system.

The person they most admire presumably possesses the traits and qualities that they hope to emulate. This gives you a sense of whether or not they’ll duplicate skill sets already present on the team or bring new strengths to your group.

5) “What kind of animal are you and why?”
Asking the candidate to imagine themselves as an animal invites them to boil themselves down to their most essential characteristics. The “why” is a critical component of this question.

If an employee says they’re most like a bear, is it because they want to hibernate six months of the year? If so, they might not be your ideal candidate. If they say they relate to the bear’s ingenuity and problem-solving skills when it comes to scavenging for food at a campsite, that might be a sign that your interviewee is the type of creative thinker you want to hire.

Better Interviewing skills help find dream employees because these questions are likely new to your interviewee, you’ll likely get honest answers — not canned and well-rehearsed responses.
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