Basic Questions:

Q: How many staffs are there in the Company?

Q: How many local and foreigners?
Q: How many lawyers are there?
Q: Age range?

Staff Management
Recruiting Techniques
Internal & External recruitment
Q: Does the firm practice internal recruitment?
If so, when was the last time of such recruiting technique?
Q: External, by which medium? Online posting, newspaper, other means of advertising,
referrals?
** Q: Advantages and Disadvantages can be asked if internal recruitment has been used
before
Realistic Job Previews
Q: Are both favorable and unfavorable aspects (Positive & negatives) are covered to job
candidates during interviews? (No concealing of negativity, such as informing staff that
OT is expected, meeting deadlines often happen)
Selection Techniques
(a) Selection
Q: Any other involve in selection of candidates (Reviewing resume etc) other than HR
manager herself?
(b) Interview
Q: Any other involve in interview other than HR manager herself?
Q: Will benefits, job-scope etc being confirm/inform during interview or will there be
another 2nd interview conducted on a later date?
(c) Employment test
Q: Any employment test to be taken? If so, will the test be depending on the job scope?
Q: What is the purpose of the test being conducted?
(d) Pre-employment checks
Q: Any pre-employment check necessary before start of work?

Orientation & Socialisation

Q: Any form of orientation being conducted? (Introduction to colleagues on the first day
etc)
Q: Any team building activity being carried out? Inside or outside office?
Training and Development
Q: Any training provided?
Q: In-company training or off-site training?
Q: How frequent?
Performance Management
Q: Performance appraisal Done yearly basis?
Q: Who will asses the appraisal?
Q: How do you evaluate appraisal? (By performance, behavior?)
Q: Bonus will be given based on the company performance or individual performance?
Flexibility and Work-life balance
Q: Working hour Allow to go out during working hour if any emergency things turn up?
Q: Lunch break, must off/reach on time? Any punch card machine?
Q: How often do employees have to do OT?
Compensation & Benefits
Q: Will the salary only increase based on how well the employee perform (based on
appraisal)?
Q: Any other benefits? (Insurance, Medical fee, Leaves)
Retention & Turnover
Q: How many employees will quit their job within 6 months? High/low turnover rate.
Q: Is there always an open vacancy to look for new employee? Why?
Q: Has any transfer/lay off of employee ever happened before?

Others

Q: Any form of feedback (for example: filing up form every month end) from employee
to improve on anything? If so, would it be anonymous?
Q: Does dispute/misunderstanding often occur in working area? If so, how would you
solve it?
Q: How do you keep staff for being interested in the work that they are assign to?
Q: How do you ensure that the employee follows the work ethic during working hours?
(Discipline, Quality, Responsibility, Teamwork, Integrity)
Q: Any annual gathering or normal gathering for festive season (Raya etc)?
Q: Based on the recent news on reducing foreign workers in Brunei and since there are
quite a number of foreigners in this company, is there any consideration being given for
laying off some of them?