Most women business owners want to run a successful business while being popular with their employees. Although this is sometimes difficult, you can have a great relationship with your staff while running a profitable business.

Five Ways to Be an Effective Yet Likeable CEO

I’m astounded by the number of business owners who don’t develop a formal list of questions when interviewing prospective employees. Rather, they conduct a general conversation to get a gut feel for an applicant.

This approach doesn’t allow you to compare applicants evenly and is a poor business practice. Rather than getting to know an applicant, your goal should be to evaluate her ability to do the specific job. To discover this, you need a fixed set of interview questions for all applicants. Here are five questions you should always include.

Five Critical Interview Questions

We all know the tried and true questions to ask job candidates, but if you’re looking to find out about the real person behind the resume, here are a few questions you should consider asking.

Five Great Questions for Job Candidates