Category: Face-to-Face Interviewing

Can Your Candidates Demonstrate Initiative Before You Hire Them?

Q. What questions do you find are helpful for getting to the candidate’s motivation and cultural fit?  One question that I believe addresses these issues is centered around understanding the candidate’s drive or initiative. Granted there are others, but I think this particular one deals with both. Just about all jobs require some level of [...]

Thursday December 1st, 2011 in Face-to-Face Interviewing, Interviewing, Phone Interviewing | No Comments »

Interviewing Only The Employed. Is It The Way To Hire?

Q. My boss thinks we should only interview and hire people that are working.  What are your thoughts on this?  I think you and your boss should only interview and hire qualified candidates that will be top performers. Why would your boss want to exclude a potential top performer because they are not working? I [...]

Thursday November 17th, 2011 in 1st Impressions, Face-to-Face Interviewing, Interviewing, Phone Interviewing | No Comments »

One Simple Thing CEOs Can Do To Improve Interviewing

Q. Are there any tricks to improving the interviewing in our company?  I wouldn’t call it a trick, but there is one thing that impacts interviewing more than anything else and when properly handled can literally change interviewing overnight. The power of  first impressions.  Few things impact the interview more than the interviewer’s first impression [...]

Thursday November 10th, 2011 in 1st Impressions, Face-to-Face Interviewing, Interviewing | No Comments »

Two Reasons Interviewing Fails So Often

Do you have other people in your organization interview candidates that will end up working directly for you? Just about everyone answers “Yes” to this question. The follow up question to that is, “Have you ever sat in the interviews with these co-workers and assessed whether or not they are competent interviewers?” I don’t mean [...]

Thursday September 23rd, 2010 in Face-to-Face Interviewing, Hiring Mistakes, Interviewing | 2 Comments »

A Candidate’s Background & Experience Are Irrelevant

Just to clarify, I said “irrelevant.” I didn’t say “not important.” Since most people have been taught interviewing is about the candidate’s background and experience, the interviewer tends to ask a lot of questions about the past. For example, “What have  you done in this area?”  or ” Have you ever done _____?”  Those trained [...]

Monday August 30th, 2010 in Face-to-Face Interviewing, Interviewing, Phone Interviewing | 3 Comments »

Why You Should Measure Self- Motivation

In 25 years of Executive Search, Barry Deutsch and Brad Remillard, hosts of this radio show podcast, have interviewed over 250,000 candidates for more than 1000 search assignments. They’ve discovered a few core traits of success that high performers possess and poor performers lack. One of those core success traits is high levels of self-motivation [...]

Saturday April 10th, 2010 in Face-to-Face Interviewing, Interviewing | No Comments »

The Magnifying Glass Approach to Interviewing

Most hiring managers and executives are frustrated by the level of exaggeration and embellishment candidates spout in the interview. How can you get honest, detailed, specific, quantifiable anwers to your questions? The technique to eliminate exaggeration and embellishment is called the Magnifying Glass Approach to Interviewing, which is a component of our Success Factor Methodology. [...]

Saturday April 10th, 2010 in Face-to-Face Interviewing, Interviewing | No Comments »

Losing a Top Candidate – Perception is The Only Reality. Lessons learned from 20 years on the front lines of the talent wars.

You rarely lose a top candidate at the end of the hiring process. It’s usually in steps taken along the way. In this case the client made a series of seemingly small mistakes that resulted in the candidate declining to go forward. It started simply by the hiring manager keeping the candidate waiting 30 minutes, [...]

Tuesday February 9th, 2010 in Face-to-Face Interviewing, Hiring Mistakes | No Comments »

Stop “Telling” in an interview instead ask “How”

If you are in HR or executive search, how many times have you heard a hiring manager say when referring to a hire that is under performing and about to be let go, “I don’t know why they aren’t performing, I told them during the interview exactly what that job is. I can’t figure it [...]

Wednesday December 9th, 2009 in Face-to-Face Interviewing, Interviewing, Phone Interviewing | 3 Comments »

A Homework Assignment Should Be Required Before Hiring Anyone

When the pool of talent is narrowed down to the final two candidates, it’s time for the interview team to come up with homework assignments. An important predictor of how a candidate will adapt to your organization’s environment is to see an example of his or her thought processes, analytical skills, and problem-solving, up close [...]

Tuesday September 29th, 2009 in Face-to-Face Interviewing, Finding Candidates | No Comments »
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