"I didn't always know the answers to my questions beforehand, so I had to listen very carefully and follow up quickly, " he says.

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Unless hiring managers have five coherent and actionable answers to my five questions they will continue to hire competent employees who fit the culture and who fit their jobs about 20% of the time.

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My answers to those questions may differ from yours, but dividing up into warring tribes and demonizing each other aren't the ways to figure out who's right.

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My answers to the above questions would be yes, yes, probably, and yes.

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Part I provided my answers to the first set of questions posed by Tsinghua.

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For answers to your computer questions, check out my Mossberg's Mailbox in today's Tech Center.

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For even when I pointed out that I had at my fingertips the answers to the real questions they needed answers to, I once again got radio silence.

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It was in hearing the answers to these questions that it became clear that my team faces many challenges ahead.

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His publicist agreed and dutifully took my list of questions for Fieri promising to get the answers.

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My experience is that the best time to ask questions (and get answers) is before the IPO happens, not after.

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