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Always enjoy any variation of "what motivates you to come in every day and put in your best". Anything really where the intent is to genuinely ask a question and dig into my experience or time in industry, not check a box or ask for the sake of asking.
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There’s no one question that is great—it’s reading the flow of the conversation and digging into topics. That said, a few pointers on where people go wrong:
1) we aren’t on a date—I always find the question “what do you do for fun outside of work?” or a variant like that to be weird and not appropriate for the setting
2) “Could you talk about climbing the learning curve?” Wtf are you supposed to do with this question. It would be like me asking how you learned to ride a bike—Yeah, I fell off a bunch, but eventually could do it. This question sucks and everyone asks it.
3) don’t ask questions you know the answer to. It really bothers me when I get canned questions that I can tell you know what I am going to say. It’s just a waste of time. I get you are talking to me to have me give you a referral or to build consensus in the group you are a good candidate and that you might have had numerous convos with people in my group, but you should be able to come up with different questions or at least subjective questions that you can’t know the answer to.
The best questions show critical thinking ability and build off information you gained from others or from me. Questions such as what do you think makes your bank or group different/ unique compared to others is great because it’s subjective and can help you figure out why that bank might actually be a good place to work for. Also great are asking about misconceptions people had coming into the job or things they wish they would have known when they were in your shoes.
I was actually afraid to ask "what do you think makes your bank or group different/ unique compared to others" during networking in case someone might think I did not do my research on their bank and group and do not know why I want to work there, i.e. just applying for the sake of it.
I get why you would think this, but genuine question: how else would you know what makes their group different than by asking people who work there? WSO? The info on WSO for groups is horrifically wrong almost across the board. There’s no way to do your research on a group without asking a professional in the industry and specifically you won’t know the culture or group specific vibes unless you ask people currently in that group.
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