Police Applicants: The Questions YOU Need to Ask in an Interview!
- Is this an agency where I will experience personal growth? How will that happen?
- How do you reward performance and initiative?
- What is your agency’s driving values and vision?
- What kinds of networking goes on here?
- What incentives will I have to maintain a healthy lifestyle?
- What are your policies on maternity and paternity leave? Do you provide employee daycare?
- How successful have women and people of color been in your agency? Please give me some examples.
- Is this agency connected with a university? What are those connections?
- What sort of in-service programs do you have available for my continuous improvement and lifelong learning?
- Is this an organization that is having fun? Please provide some examples.
[Adapted from Reinventing the Corporation by Naisbitt and Auberdene, 1985]
For more see: The Quality Leadership Workbook, Couper and Lobitz (2017).
