Comments on: Ask Questions that Are Legal and Useful, Not These https://www.evilhrlady.org/2016/10/ask-questions-that-are-legal-and-useful-not-these.html Everything to make HR better Fri, 26 May 2017 16:41:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Nanc https://www.evilhrlady.org/2016/10/ask-questions-that-are-legal-and-useful-not-these.html#comment-208167 Tue, 18 Oct 2016 17:54:33 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=4085#comment-208167 Loving an accent: As my dear departed great aunt Estelle from Arkansas used to say, “where I come from, we don’t have accents, buy y’all do!” I suppose it would be rude to say it to an interviewer now, but when she came north to work in an airplane factory in WWII and use that line, she was hired on the spot by my great uncle George.

She was a pistol and she made the best fried pies ever.

]]> By: mer https://www.evilhrlady.org/2016/10/ask-questions-that-are-legal-and-useful-not-these.html#comment-208166 Tue, 18 Oct 2016 12:06:29 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=4085#comment-208166 #9, “…hate about your last job…” I agree that’s not good, at least not phrased that way. But engineers are an odd lot as a group, I’ve heard that most of us can be placed on the autism spectrum somewhere.
Why do I say that? Need to as engineers a question or two to figure out if they can fit in with the group. A question that I’ve been asked is “this job (interviewer picks out something specific on the resume) what did you dislike the most about working on that”? and a followup pointing a different job, “what did you like most about working on that”? Not open ended, but directed at specific work items on a resume.

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