No, I Think You've Covered Everything

The Last Question of the Job Interview and What a Selection Panel Does With It

A doctoral thesis from the School of Continuous Improvement records 412 selection interviews at 26 employers, seals 764 pairs of panellists' scores on either side of the candidate's question, follows 131 offers for 26 weeks and trials the invitation reworded, moved and scored across 288 further interviews. The question left the score unchanged on 95.7% of sealed slips and changed no first-ranked candidate, and the thesis sets out the Candidate Question Standard the University has adopted, under which each candidate asks two questions chosen from a published Schedule of 24, hears them answered from a Register of Standing Answers and has them rated for 20% of the selection total.

@phdthesis{slop_b6zqnj,
  author       = {Signy Okpara},
  title        = {No, I Think You've Covered Everything: The Last Question of the Job Interview and What a Selection Panel Does With It},
  year         = {2026},
  school       = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.b6zqnj},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-thesis-the-last-question-b6zqnj/},
}