Question: How often do you network and meet with new people for work purposes?

Alternative Question Phrasing:

How frequently do you add contacts to your address book? Do you think it is worth building network of contacts?

Follow-up questions:

How do you do it? What platforms do you use to network with people?

Question Details:

Question Type:

Skills:

Basic – Monitoring (Making observations of self and environment),Social – Rapport Buiding/Relating and Connecting with others

Other Factors:

Personality-Job Fit,Personality-Organization Fit

Work Activity (Task):

Information Input – Estimating Characteristics of Objects, Events, or Information,Interacting with Others – Communicating with Persons Outside Organization

Work Context (Person-Job/Team/Org Fit):

Interpersonal Relationships – Face-to-Face Discussions,Interpersonal Relationships – Frequency of Contact With Others

Work Style (Person-Job Fit):

Approachability,Initiative,Social Orientation (Work Alone vs Group Work)

Question Frequency

Question Difficulty

What to look for in an answer:

The candidate’s networking/interpersonal skills.
The candidate’s social skills.

Red Flags to Watch For:

Avoidance of people to network with.
Lack of social skills.

Sample Answer:

Networking is helpful for the business especially if you want to benchmark for ‘best practices’ so I make it a point to network with my peers and colleagues in the profession whenever I get the chance.

Question Source: https://www.jobbankusa.com/interview_questions_answers/