On 7/21/10, Always looking to improve wrote:
> Hello. Once I've found out that I didn't get a specific
> position, I always like to contact the principals to get
> some advice about our interview and perhaps why I didn't
> get the position. Here are some questions:
>
> - Is this a good idea?
> - What is the best way to phrase the question I want to
> ask to get their insights?
> - Any other tips?
>
> Thank you all in advance!

It doesn't hurt to ask. Rather than asking why you didn't get
the position, though, I'd ask if there is anything they
recommend you do that would increase your chances in the
future.
Sometimes their answer will be "no". For the last interviews
I did, of the eight candidates interviewed my answer to six
of them would have been just "apply again if we have another
opening". Of those we interviewed there were only two
candidates for whom I could have offered a suggestion for
growth. I would have gladly hired all six of the others if
we'd had six openings. Sometimes it's nothing you've done
wrong, just a matter of having to choose only one person.

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