How to Address Questions in an Interview

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Katie Roney, on behalf of Expert Village. We are discussing how to conduct an interview. Every interviewer knows, and every interviewee knows, there's going to be a question time. Inevitably, [at] some point during the interview, the interviewer is going to ask the candidate, "Do you have questions?" The candidate must have questions. That's going to tell you as an interviewer, a) that they have researched the company, that they've looked at the position, that they've paid attention during the interview. Hopefully, they've written some notes down, so that's just going to give you an indication as to how serious they are about the job and about your company. You also want to make sure that throughout the interview, they're comfortable asking you questions. So, start the interview by saying, "Feel free to ask me anything during the interview as we go through this," or "Stop me if we're going too quickly," or "Is there anything I need to explain further?" Just intermittently ask them that, that way they know that at any point, they can stop you and ask you maybe to go a little bit in more detail about a certain subject. That's going to let you know that... or make them feel comfortable, and also let you know that they're interested and a very attentive interviewee. [Katie] Phil, did you have any questions over the position we just went over? [Phil] Yeah, I saw on the job description that there was some travel required. What would be the percentage of the travel? [Katie] It's right around 25%. Now, is 25% going to be a little too much? [Phil] No, no, I was just curious what it was."