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think the job you're applying for looks like an interesting job, but you don't have a clue what it is going to do for you, you don't know where you're going to be in four to five years or what you want to do in four to five years, that tells me that this person will end up drifting. I want to know that this particular job is something that you think is a fit for you given your career plans because we're deciding whether it is a fit for us. I think this goes back to the successful hire question-a successful hire being in some ways someone who's an organizational fit as well as an individual fit. When those two things come together, as someone once said, it is a beautiful result.

John Mann is associate director of The Alexander Group. He works out of the executive search firm's office in Houston.