One of the biggest mistakes you can make in an interview? Failing to answer a structured, behavioral question with a specific example. Unfortunately, it happens all too often. To understand how to ...
The other day a woman at a webcast I was leading asked why I didn’t think behavioral-based interviewing is effective for assessing competency, fit and motivation for a specific job. My two-minute ...
The right interviewing technique helps you assess candidates efficiently. However, asking the wrong questions increases the risks of bias and may result in hiring an unsuitable person for the position ...
Managers are bad at assessing job candidates in almost countless ways. But according to Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, a global expert on hiring and promotion decisions, two of these ways are especially ...
Google used to be famously known for its brainteaser interview questions, such as, "How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane?" Luckily for future Google interviewees, the tech giant has said ...
Want to know how to prepare for a job interview? Here’s a step-by-step guide and a number of practical, effective interviewing tips. If you want to improve your job interview skills and get the job ...
Don't wing it; listen more than you talk; have specific questions prepared, and you just might win the hiring game. Great interviewing is an art, pure and simple. Like any art form, it takes practice, ...
Decades of research into the effectiveness of employment interviews has shown one consistent result: we are terrible at conducting them. Our ability to predict success from a typical unstructured job ...
Unconscious bias isn’t something a business can eradicate overnight by passing a mandate. Even after outlining the steps that should be taken to improve the hiring process and uncover more diverse ...