Boost Your Hiring IQ
Take the Manager's Hiring IQ Test
I’ve heard it said that the only thing more painful than going to
an interview is to have to conduct an interview.
Most hiring managers dread the experience. One of the reasons that
they dread the experience is that they have had little or no
training in how to effectively perform the task.
There have been studies that have found that many hiring decisions
are actually made in the first two minutes of the interview. If that
is the case, these decisions are being made on a subjective basis,
when the interviewers’ inner prejudices are at work; they are
judging the candidates by the way they look, act, shake hands, and
most of all by their demeanor.
Most candidates are nervous before the interview. In fact, some are
paralyzed at the thought of selling themselves. If the interviewer
cannot see beyond that behavior and work to bring out the best in
the person, they may be missing out on great people who are not
great at interviewing or selling themselves.
Your job in the interview is to ask the questions that will bring
out the skills, abilities, traits, and past behaviors of the
candidate so that you can get as clear a picture of that person as a
possible in a short amount of time. Often hiring is done with little
more than a passing thought to the skills, abilities, and knowledge
needed for a position.
Inadequate evaluation of critical skills cost companies millions of
dollars each year because objective job data have not been
collected. Just as interviewing for the job as a candidate is a
learned skill, so is hiring a learned skill.
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Boosting Your Hiring IQ programs, private coaching
with Carole, joint venture opportunities,
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organization, please contact her at 877-647-5627 or carole @ interviewcoach.com, or, visit www.interviewcoach.com |
Take the Manager's Hiring IQ Test
Ask questions that identify the ideal candidate.
Decode their answers and hire the best.
What's Your Hiring IQ?