Question: What are your long-term career goals?

Alternative Question Phrasing:

What are some of your long-range career objectives?
What are your long-term career goals and how do you plan to achieve them?

Follow-up questions:

How do you intend to achieve them?
How do these align with your personal goals?
What plan do you have for achieving these goals?

Question Details:

Question Type:

Traditional

Other Factors:

Big 5 – Conscientiousness (Work Ethic),Motivation/Ambition/Aspiration,Personal Improvement (Growth),Personality-Job Fit,Personality-Organization Fit,Rapport Building Question,Self-Awareness

Work Activity (Task):

Mental Processes – Developing Objectives and Strategies,Mental Processes – Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work

Work Style (Person-Job Fit):

Achievement/Effort (Action/Result Orientation),Self Control

Question Frequency

Question Difficulty

What to look for in an answer:

If your goals are aligned with the interviewee’s goals.

Red Flags to Watch For:

If the interviewee’s goals are too ambitious or something that they will be unable to achieve working in your company.
If the interviewee has no goals.

Sample Answer:

N/A

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