Interviewing Tips for the Interviewer

 

The interview is more than an exercise to match skill sets to job requirements.  It is more than a personal “chemistry test.”  It is the main tool to help you predict if someone’s skills, experiences and successes in the past are likely to be repeated, even amplified, in your environment.  And if it results in a hire, it is the beginning of an important working relationship.  It requires preparation and strategy.

 

Analyzing and reading a resume

What is the candidate’s career story arc?

Basics of candidate assessment

Skills, Accomplishments, Support, Suitability

What candidates may be trying to do in the interview

The candidate agenda

Effective communication in the interview

Human communication is a verbal and visual interchange of information; and interviews should be a tw0-way street.

Preparing for the interview

Winging it in the interview is a lost opportunity.  Hiring priorities, the questions that reflect them, and the interview mind set

INTERVIEWERS’ COMMON MISTAKES

What not to do!

TYPES OF INTERVIEWS

Five basic interview approaches and their advantages and disadvantages

TYPES OF QUESTIONS

Eight basic types of questions, and advantages and disadvantages

DURING THE INTERVIEW

The mindful approach to interviewing

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER ASKING

Questions pertaining to experience, skills, knowledge base, working/management style and current status; intervention strategies to keep things on course

FERRETING OUT WEAKNESSES

We all have improvement needs:  techniques for uncovering them in candidates while maintaining rapport

AFTER THE INTERVIEW

Digesting what you learned in the interview and drawing conclusions

REFERENCE QUESTIONS

Reference checks as valuable tools for additional learning and validation

OFFERING, NEGOTIATION AND CLOSING POINTERS

Win-win negotiation

CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR UNRESOLVED ISSUES

Approaches for overcoming obstacles to the close of an offer

EXECUTIVE RELOCATION GUIDELINES

Checklist for the relocation package
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