One Vital Interview Question You Don’t Want to Forget to Ask

Posted on | April 15, 2012 | No Comments

By Sean Con­rad, Brazen Life

Brazen Life is a won­der­ful lifestyle and career blog for ambi­tious young professionals.

So you’ve landed what you thought was going to be a great job. But you find your­self work­ing fast and furi­ous with­out any real clar­ity about what’s expected of you, what your pri­or­i­ties are or how well you’re doing. You’d like to broaden your skills with maybe a course or an indus­try con­fer­ence… but good luck get­ting sup­port for that. You’re a high per­former, so you’d hoped to use this gig as a step­ping stone to big­ger things, but your man­ager is clearly not inter­ested in your career advancement.

You start to look for a new job, some­thing that will be a bet­ter fit, some­thing with a future. But how do you know the new scene will be any better?

Here’s a one word answer for you: ask. That’s right — ask about career devel­op­ment dur­ing the inter­view.

The inter­view process isn’t only for poten­tial employ­ers to learn about you. It’s also a great oppor­tu­nity for you to dig a bit on top­ics like:

  • Does the com­pany have any kind of process for giv­ing employ­ees feed­back? How often does that hap­pen? Is it for­mal or for­mal? How does it work?
Read more at blog.brazencareerist.com.

 

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