“Why are you not suitable for this job?” Headhunters like to surprise their application candidates with these and other difficult questions.
What should one answer?
For many people, the application process is associated with nervousness and high pressure.
Starting with the sending of the documents, where the fear of making mistakes - as in this case, for example, where an applicant's résumé accidentally adorned a strange, wrong name * - is great, right up to the exciting job interview.
In this, headhunters not only try
to check
the
qualitative suitability of
the candidate.
The person behind the applicant is also of great interest, as the headhunter also wants to find out, among other things, what kind of employee is sitting in front of him.
To do this, he specifically asks questions that are intended to catch the applicant on the wrong foot, so that they reveal something of their
true personality
.
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Difficult application questions: Have the right answer ready
Headhunter
Roger Duguay
revealed to the
career
portal BusinessInsider
which questions he asks his candidates in the job interview and how he rates the possible answers.
Of course, Boyden's head of CEO and Board Services is not available for all job interviews - with his
experience of around 1,000 interviews
with future bosses and CEOs, his insights and questions are very interesting for all current and future applicants.
This can be seen, among other things, in the complex questions that Elon Musk's company Tesla asks its applicants.
Below are the most important and difficult questions that Duguay asks in the job interview - and what the
answers reveal about the candidate
.
Questions about private life:
In general, Duguay tries to find out as much as possible about the candidate in an interview - especially about him
personally
.
He asks indirect questions about private life and wants to know what makes the applicant really tick.
Because the
headhunter already knows
the professional qualifications and which university he has attended
from the résumé
- if these factors had not been enough, the applicant would not have been invited.
Mistakes in the past:
Duguay specifically asks the applicant whether they would do something differently, 5 years back.
With this question, he wants to examine to what extent the candidate is able to
deal transparently
with his
own mistakes
and to learn from them.
The answer “nothing” does not satisfy Duguay - rather, he expects
to hear
of
at least 5 mistakes
from the past.
Unsuitable for the job:
At the very end of the interview there is a question that very few candidates expect and that makes them sweat a lot.
Duguay asks why the applicant
is
unsuitable
for the job
.
Not many candidates give a satisfactory answer here, Duguay tells the
BusinessInsider
.
That someone works too hard or always strives for perfection are answers that the headhunter
does not like at all
.
Rather, he wants to see that an applicant can also
show
himself to be
vulnerable
and that the interview is not just a showcase of ability and self-confidence.
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The key in the application: authenticity
There is no perfect answer to every headhunter's question -
there cannot be one
.
Because every company has different ideas and expectations when it comes to its own employees, and every headhunter in turn brings his
own wishes and experiences
with him.
A tip that is always valid is: be authentic!
Elon Musk also shows why this is so helpful, who impressively conceals the rhetorical errors in his presentations with his authenticity.
Those who are authentic feel comfortable in their own skin and
exude corresponding self-confidence
- qualities that headhunters like Roger Duguay like to see in their candidates.
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