38 Smart Questions to Ask in a Job Interview

The opportunity to ask questions at the end of a job interview is one you don’t want to waste. It’s both a chance to continue to prove yourself and to find out whether a position is the right fit for you. Choose two or three questions that are more relevant to you, write them down and glance at them right before your interview so that they’re fresh in your mind.

“So, do you have any questions for me?”

When you reach this point in a job interview you don’t want to be caught off guard. It’s important to have a plan for how you’ll respond, and a list of questions specific to that opportunity.

But what types of questions should you actually ask?

The HBR guide brings advices from Art Markman, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Bring Your Brain to Work, and John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of How to Get a Job You Love.

Here are their recommendations for how to approach this part of the interview and sample 38 Smart Questions to Ask in a Job Interview they’ve seen work in practice: