Whether you’re a recruiter or a jobseeker or even a freelance, AI and various other developments over the last few years have radically changed what people think about in the hiring process.
Job interviews themselves, however, often don’t take these changes into account. The types of questions that come up are often those that have been used for many years, and fail to help understand how well candidates are tuned to current ways of work.
Here are twenty six example Qs to help inspire recruiters to think and ask more questions to understand how candidates may fit in with these changes, or to help candidates prepare for interviews with more forward-thinking companies.
AI and Automation
- How do you think AI will affect your role in the next five years, and what have you done to prepare for that?
- Which AI tools are already part of your current workflow – how have they changed the way you work?
- Where do you think AI should definitely not be used in your field, and why?
- How do you check the quality and accuracy of AI generated work, or how do you think it should be checked?
- If 40% of your current tasks became automated tomorrow, how would you rework your role?
Adaptability and Continuous Learning
- What’s the most recent tool or digital skill you taught yourself, and why did you choose that?
- What are you doing to stay relevant in a field that changes so quickly?
- Tell us about a time when a system you worked with became obsolete. How did you respond?
- Which digital trends do you think most people are underestimating? Which do you think they’re overestimating?
Commercial and Strategic Thinking
- Given the changes in tech over the last few years, how does your work contribute to revenue, growth, or efficiency?
- If your team’s budget was dropped by 30 percent, what would you prioritise and why?
- How do you decide what not to work on?
- How do you balance work on experimentation with work delivering predictable results?
Data and Decision Making
- What metrics truly define success in your role? Do they differ from those most people measure?
- What’s a recent decision you made based on data, and one where you relied more on judgement?
- Someone shows you data that they think proves you should change the way you work. How do you respond?
- How do you explain complex info to colleagues who are not technical?
Collaboration and Cross Functional Work
- Talk about a time when you’ve worked with people who do not understand your technical area.
- Describe a time you had to influence someone without formal being authority.
- What does strong collaboration between product, marketing, engineering, and design look like to you?
Problem Solving and Ownership
- Tell us about a technical problem you identified before others noticed it. What did you do?
- Describe a digital project you’ve been involved in that did not go to plan. What did you learn?
- How do you decide when something is ready to launch, and when it needs more work?
Ethics and Digital Responsibility
- How do you think about ethics in digital work, especially around data and around AI?
- If you were asked to build or market something you believed was misleading or harmful from a tech point of view, what would you do?
- If you were asked to build something that you knew would make your current work unnecessary, what would you do?
