How to conduct an interview to find the best candidate I received this question from a subscriber recently – about how to conduct an interview to find the best candidate. Like many of us, she’s spent a lot of her management career doing interviews, hiring people, but not really mastering the art of the interview. […]
Weaknesses for job interview: How to answer the dreaded question I’m a little surprised to be writing about this topic because it has been written about many times before. But I recently participated in a couple of interviews where this question was asked, and I was quite shocked to see candidates so unprepared to handle […]
3 critical weaknesses that often disguise as strengths Interviewing is hard. I think I’ve said that a few times before. Just when you think you’ve got it figured out, you realize – often painfully – you don’t. Sometimes, everything is what it seems to be. Candidates are strong, or they’re weak. Their answers to questions […]
3 signs your candidate is too good to be true Hiring is hard. And the more I do it, the more I know this to be true. You do everything you can. You ask all the questions. You get outside opinions. You check references. You give them an assignment. And still, candidates don’t always work […]
My new favorite interview question I’ve written a lot this year about interview questions. This blog, had over 600,000 views on LinkedIn earlier in the year. In it, I wrote about a different approach to questioning designed to get a better understanding of candidates. I identified four questions I use to see the truth in the […]
5 job interview fails you can’t recover from It always surprises me how unprepared candidates are for job interviews. It’s shocking really, given the stakes involved. It’s also not a phenomenon reserved for the younger or less experienced among us. Pretty much across the board – from Junior Associates to SVPs – I’m consistently amazed […]
Group interviews – How to avoid consensus hiring Consensus hiring can kill a company. That sounds a bit dramatic I know, but I mean it. I don’t know exactly when it began, but these days most corporate hiring processes include groups of at least four or five people that interview, assess and weigh in on […]
4 Interview Questions To See the Truth in Every Candidate I want to become a better interviewer. In fact, I’m quite obsessed with it at the moment. The irony of this is that for the longest time, I placed little or no value whatsoever in the practice of interviewing … I honestly didn’t think it […]
