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Interview Questions: Cultural Fit

You need hires who are highly skilled, but you also need hires who are a good culture fit with your company and the team they will join.

Evaluating the skills and experience that a candidate possesses will show you if they can do the job, but evaluating cultural fit will show you if they will enjoy doing the job and find meaning in it. And, in some ways, this is more important.

A new hire with a skill gap can be caught-up by a few weeks or months of training, but a candidate who does not feel a fit with your company or their team is destined to be disengaged or even a detractor from the workplace experience of those around them.

Hires who do not feel a culture fit will quit, no matter how much they’re being paid.

Hires who do feel a culture fit will come to work with a good attitude, engage with their teams and strive to improve their work as well as their working environment.

You can use our cultural interview questions and answers to see if candidates will feel a cultural fit with your company and the team they would join, or the company you are recruiting for.  

 

Cultural Fit Interview Questions: Candidate Preferred Company/Team Culture

 

Before you tell a candidate about your company’s culture, you should ask them questions about the company cultures that they have enjoyed the most and been the most successful in.

If you start by telling a candidate everything about your culture, they may change their answers to match your company’s work environment, which doesn’t help anyone.

These questions will show you the kinds company cultures that the candidate thrives in and the kinds of cultures that aren’t a good fit for the candidate.

General Company Culture Questions

Work History Culture Questions

Cultural Fit Interview Questions: Assessing Fit with Your Company

Now that you know more about company cultures that have been a good fit for the candidate, ask questions that reveal their attitudes about your company’s core cultural principals.

For example, if your company values employees who are willing to help their co-workers when they get stuck, you do not want to hire people who are unwilling to help their peers.

Before you select these questions for your interview or create your own, ask people in your company about their experiences with your company’s culture and what they believe to be the defining traits of your culture. This way, your cultural interview questions are more likely to show you which candidates will feel a strong fit with your company.


Questions to Test Fit With Your Company’s Culture

Team Culture Questions

Diversity and Cultural Fit

You’re looking for people who fit well with your company with these cultural fit interview questions and answers, but you should always emphasize diversity when hiring.

Beyond the ethical and legal obligations of creating a diverse workplace, having too few points of view will always leave an organization vulnerable to short sightedness or even blindness.


Diverse companies draw on the many backgrounds, experiences and viewpoints of their employees to outperform monoculture companies, which lack diversity in backgrounds, experiences and viewpoints.

Loxo helps recruiters identify cultural fit for their clients by providing unparalleled sourcing abilities powered by AI and tools to enable easier communications with candidates. The more you know about candidates, the better equipped you are to connect them to companies with cultures that they will thrive in.  

To learn more about how Loxo helps recruiters assess the culture fit factors of candidates, schedule a demo here.

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