Don't focus a job interview on whether the candidate can do the job. The purpose of an interview is not to evaluate hard skills or job experience or training. Anybody who makes it to the interview already meets the requirements. Look instead for the behaviors of the person. The interview is the time to find out the motivators, the personality, and the soft skills of self … [Read more...] about Do you make this costly interviewing mistake?
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Potential hires meet with staff as part of job interview
Because a job interview produces a lot of pat answers, one medical office manager sends potential hires out to spend 15 minutes with the staff they will be working with. What takes place are "the little conversations that employees have with one another," she says. And the outcome is information no formal interview can uncover. For that reason, the time with staff has … [Read more...] about Potential hires meet with staff as part of job interview
10 interview questions that reveal the true personality of every job applicant
Interviewing job candidates is perhaps the most serious responsibility of management. A bad hire is a full-time disaster, because the doctors, the staff, and the manager spend more time with that person than they do with their own families. Interviewing is an artificial situation and managers get tricked by it. Everybody can have a pat answer to the standard questions of "what … [Read more...] about 10 interview questions that reveal the true personality of every job applicant
Interviewing job candidates
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Want to keep valued employees? Conduct a stay interview
By Lynne Curry bio If you've ever been blindsided by a valuable employee's resignation and conducted an exit interview, you may have asked the right questions six months too late. Exit interviews detail why employees leave your organization. In contrast, stay interviews—rarely done—provide a valuable tool for retaining valued employees. What's a stay … [Read more...] about Want to keep valued employees? Conduct a stay interview
Interviewing job candidates
Editor's picks: 10 interview questions that reveal the true personality of every job applicant Model Guide: Behavioral interview questions How to tell when a job candidate or staffer is lying to you … [Read more...] about Interviewing job candidates
Top 10 oddball interview questions
Job candidates must be prepared for anything during an interview, according to Glassdoor, the transparent jobs and recruiting marketplace. The company therefore combed through hundreds of thousands of interview questions shared by job candidates over the past year to compile its annual list of the Top 10 Oddball Interview Questions. Here are the questions selected. 1. Asked … [Read more...] about Top 10 oddball interview questions
A telling way to interview job candidates
Anybody walks into a job interview with best foot forward and a slew of prepared answers. It’s the manager’s job to sift through what’s often a rehearsed performance and find out what the office will actually get if that person is hired. Here management consultant Manola Robison, CMC, of Robison Management Consulting in Atlanta gives a novel – and very telling – way to do just … [Read more...] about A telling way to interview job candidates
Model Tool: Candidate rejection letter, job interview
Why you need this model tool: After you interview candidates for an open position and choose the one you wish to hire, you have an obligation to get back to the people who spent time interviewing but did not get the job. How this model tool helps you: It can be difficult to know what to say to a candidate who was not hired. How to use this model tool: This model tool … [Read more...] about Model Tool: Candidate rejection letter, job interview
Are you misleading job applicants during the interview process?
Six in 10 employees say they've found aspects of a new job different from expectations set during the interview process, according to a survey conducted by jobs and career marketplace Glassdoor. Areas where job reality differs from employee expectations include: Employee morale Job responsibilities Hours expected to work Boss' personality Career advancement … [Read more...] about Are you misleading job applicants during the interview process?