{"id":3201,"date":"2012-08-28T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2012\/08\/28\/asking-questions-on-a-procurement-interview\/"},"modified":"2021-07-06T08:51:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T12:51:56","slug":"asking-questions-on-procurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/asking-questions-on-procurement\/","title":{"rendered":"Asking Questions on a Procurement Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that you have enjoyed the article \u201cProcurement Interviews: Questions &amp; Stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>As alluded to in the article, hiring managers often don\u2019t limit their judgment of you to just how you answer their questions.\u00a0 They also judge you on the quality of the questions that you ask them!<\/p>\n<p>In the article, I gave examples of six questions to consider asking a manager hiring for a procurement position.\u00a0 Here are a few more that you may want to consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where do you see the procurement department going in the next several years?<\/li>\n<li>How is the procurement department perceived by management and internal customers?<\/li>\n<li>What mistakes has the procurement department made in the past that you\u2019d like to avoid in the future?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Asking good questions can showcase yourself as an intelligent candidate who is focused on delivering measurable results and improving procurement performance.<\/p>\n<p>One caution:\u00a0 don\u2019t go into an interview and expect to ask these questions without back-and-forth dialogue.\u00a0 Too often, I see people getting lazy and just using a template of sorts and not being prepared for what comes next.<\/p>\n<p>If the hiring manager responds to your question by asking you \u201cWhy do you ask that question?\u201d or answers your question then asks \u201cWhat do you think of that?\u201d be prepared to have a real, comfortable conversation.\u00a0 If you just ask questions because you read them here and don\u2019t spend any time thinking through how the subsequent conversation will go, you won\u2019t achieve your goal of using questions to showcase intelligence!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that you have enjoyed the article \u201cProcurement Interviews: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - 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