Category: Face-to-Face Interviewing

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 »

Who Embellishes More During An Interview?

Candidates or hiring managers? If you get 10 or more CEOs and key executives in a room and ask, “What percentage of candidates embellish in the hiring process?” you will hear anything from the conservative 80% to the more skeptical 100%. I don’t know if there have been any studies on this topic, but most [...]

Wednesday September 2nd, 2009 in Face-to-Face Interviewing, Interviewing | 1 Comment »

Interviewing Is A Quest For The Truth

Put Candidates Under “The Magnifying Glass” While not every candidate is guilty of puffery, we know from experience that it happens. Candidates claim responsibility for accomplishments that really were not their accomplishments, but rather those of bosses, peers, or perhaps even subordinates. There is a bulletproof solution to the problem of “accomplishment inflammation,” and that [...]

Saturday July 4th, 2009 in Face-to-Face Interviewing, Interviewing | 1 Comment »

5 Questions That Identify Top Talent

As a way of helping our clients, we often participate with them in interviews. It is not uncommon for clients to ask us to interview candidates they have surfaced on their own. Over my 20+ years as a recruiter, I have participated in hundreds and maybe thousands of interviews. The one thing they all have [...]

Tuesday May 12th, 2009 in Face-to-Face Interviewing, Interviewing, Phone Interviewing | 4 Comments »

Overcoming the Second Biggest Hiring Mistake

The sole purpose of an employment interview is to investigate whether the candidate can succeed in the open position. Uncovering that information requires a rigorous, disciplined interview process that leaves no question unasked and no stone unturned. Yet, according to a research study we conducted the second most common hiring mistake at the executive level [...]

Monday May 11th, 2009 in Face-to-Face Interviewing, Interviewing, Phone Interviewing | No Comments »

Eliminate Candidate Embellishment

While not every candidate is guilty of puffery, we know from experience that it happens. Candidates claim responsibility for accomplishments that really were not their accomplishments, but rather those of bosses, peers, or perhaps even subordinates. There is a bulletproof solution to the problem of “accomplishment inflammation,” and that is to become a great detective. [...]

Tuesday May 5th, 2009 in Defining The Job, Face-to-Face Interviewing, Interviewing | 1 Comment »
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