Do you know what to say when your interviewers asks if you have any questions? Do you know what questions you should ask or what if all your questions have been answered? You do not want to portray that you are uninterested in the company or the job position, but do you know what to say when they ask if you have any questions and all your questions have been answered during the interview. It is always good practise to try and ask at least two to three questions rather than merely saying "no" but you do not want to look foolish and ask a question which has already been covered in the interview.

Here are a couple of ideas to make some questions which should help you out of this tricky situation. You could ask the interviewers "why they enjoy working for the company?"; "Is there a formal appraisal system within the company?"; "What extent do people socialise together outside of work?" "What are the longer term prospects of working for the company?". However you will need to consider your questions carefully and make sure that they are relevant to the job position you are applying for and more importantly the position and level that you are applying at. For example it will do you no good if you ask a question about management responsibilities or budgets etc if you are applying for a junior level position, this question is not relevant and asking this could be dangerous and undo all your hard work during the course of the interview.

Interviewers always like to know that you have done your research on the company and this may give you a chance to expand on some recent press or advertising activity. If you want to try and engage in a discussion or want to find out more about the company then here is the chance to ask a question. It is always a good idea to ask a question with an open ended question when trying to open up a discussion. An example of open ended questions are "that's interesting how did that come about?", "May I ask more about....?" or "That's interesting, can you tell me more?".

There are a couple of questions which you don't really want to ask at this point, even if they are really important to you but they can be portrayed in the wrong way by the interviewers. If successful at interview you will then get a chance to ask these questions and discuss them in a more positive way. So what are these questions? Well they are "what is the salary?", or "what are the hours of work?" or how much holiday do I get?". You can see that an interviewer can think you are more interested in what you can out than what you can give them for the job and at the end of the day, that is what they are really interested in. So hopefully now you can see there are a couple of ways to answer this question without asking those forbidden questions.

By Tracy Wallbank