Interview Tip: Ask About Innovation

1. In any interview situation, the organization appears to have all the cookies, but you're interviewing them too. Do not compound your current misery by taking a job where the staff is demonstrably unhappy.

2. Look for signs that staff likes being together. Do they laugh?

3. The interview is the sweet spot. Watch and listen. Are your interviewers listening to you? If you get evasive or rote answers in the interview, it's unlikely things will improve.

4. If you don't get an answer to how innovation happens, that's a red flag in itself.Joan Baldwin