Job Interviews Can Tell You A Lot about Someone Finding the right person for a job is never easy, but interviews can at least tell you something about how serious a candidate is. Take this list of outrageous questions that job candidates had the temerity to ask in actual interviews, compiled by staffing services firm OfficeTeam. You can tell a lot about a candidate's motivation by what they focus on in interviews, so you'd clearly want to avoid hiring these folks. Here are some of the questions these actual interviewees asked: Do I have to be at work every day? Do you have a job for my partner? What are the women who work here like? Can I have three weeks off every three months to pursue my music career? Is it OK to wear shorts to work? What job is this for? Not very promising. OfficeTeam also offered a few examples of questions that would reflect well on a candidate: While researching your firm, I learned the company recently [fill in the blank]. How does this affect your current strategy? Can you describe a typical workday for a person in this role? What skills and attributes are most important for success in this role? Questions like those suggest a candidate who's thinking about your organization and what they can contribute to it. Adapted from Six Outrageous Questions From Job Candidates by Dennis McCafferty at CIO Insight.