Roommate Interviews - 20 Housework Questions For Choosing The Right Roommates
Are you looking for a new household member that has the same idea about housework than you and your roommates? If you answered yes, your household will find plenty of company. It's on the top of the wish list of many households when putting together the qualities of their perfect roommate.
Your household can find the right person by asking questions during the interview that lets you and your roommates find out your interviewee's feelings about housework and their history of performing chores. This lets you decide if a candidate matches the qualities of your perfect roommate or has similar views towards to housework and completing chores. Asking the same questions at each interview helps you compare each potential roommate and choose the person that would be most suitable and meet your household's expectations. Each question that you ask should be designed to find out if you and your roommates could live with the interviewee's level of tidiness, cleanliness and hygiene. If you have any doubts during or after the interview, the person is probably not the right roommate for your household.
So, which questions should your household be asking when looking for the right roommate? Here are 20 questions to help you get the ball rolling.
1. How do you feel about housework?
2. Describe the housework routine where you are currently living?
3. Which chores do you least prefer to do?
4. Which housework duties do you prefer to do?
5. How do you feel about chore schedules or rosters?
6. Have you ever lived in a house with a chore schedule? How did you feel about it?
7. How do you feel about people who do not keep to the housework roster?
8. What do you feel is the best method of keeping an apartment or house clean and tidy?
9. Have you ever had a dispute with a roommate over housework?
10. Have you ever asked a roommate to leave over an issue about housework or cleanliness? Explain the situation.
11. Have you been asked to leave due to an issue about housework, tidiness or cleanliness? Explain what happened.
12. If you saw someone was not pulling his or her weight in keeping the apartment or house clean and tidy, what would you do?
13. Do you feel housework is a group effort or a responsibility of each individual?
14. Would you be prepared to pay for a cleaner?
15. How would you feel about doing housework that you prefer not to do, like cleaning the bathroom?
16. How often do you undertake housework duties?
17. Would you be prepared to do another roommate's assigned chores when they are unable to complete them, for example, when they are sick?
18. Have you ever created a household chore roster?
19. Have you ever made up an excuse to avoid doing housework?
20. How do you feel about roommates who make excuses to get out of doing housework?
Whether your household is looking for a roommate that is clean and tidy or alternatively just goes with the flow, your household can find a roommate that has the same idea about housework. It's as simple as asking the right interview questions to help you find the roommate that's perfect for you and your household.
Enid Steiner is a Director of www.flatwithme.com.au, an Australian online roommate service. Flatwithme.com.au lets people find their perfect roommate and provides helpful share accommodation resources including calculators, questionnaires and articles.
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