There have been many articles written over the last few years on what is the best predictor of success in business. The costs to a company in making a bad hiring decision are significant. If a company hires a poor performing candidate, the company will see lower productivity from this employee and will have wasted the time and money to hire and train this resource. When the company replaces this employee, it will incur additional costs to replace him or her, which includes the fees to hire the employee, as well as the training costs. So it is vitally important for companies to hire the best qualified candidates as possible.

Typically, the recruiting process includes an interview between the candidate and the HR representative. Following that interview, the hiring manager will interview the candidate to see if he or she is qualified. During this process, many questions are asked by company and the jobseeker. I have found that questions fall into three categories (the most relevant, irrelevant and provocative questions).

Read sample questions from our Relevant, Irrelevant and Provocative Interview Questions post.

Thanks David for this great post!