Conduct Powerful Job Interviews: How to Prepare for the Job Interview

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Conduct Powerful Job Interviews How to Prepare for the Job Interview From Susan M. Heathfield, your Guide to Human Resources The interview team was selected at your earlier recruiting planning meeting, so the interviewers have had time to prepare. You will want to use the list of qualities, skills, knowledge, and experience you developed for the resume screening process. Use this list to make sure each interviewer understands their role in the candidate assessment. Review each interviewer's questions, too, to make sure the interview questions selected will obtain the needed information. Make Your Job Interviews Effective Best Practices in Interviewing We all know how litigious our society has become in the area of employment-related issues. Every recruiter, hiring manager, executive, and department manager must realize that asking the wrong interview questions or making improper inquiries can lead to discrimination or wrongful-discharge lawsuits, and these suits can be won or lost based on statements made during the interview process. Here are some best practices. Use Behavioral Interviewing to Select the Best During the job interview, help the candidate demonstrate his or her best knowledge, skills, and experience. Start with small talk and ask several easy questions until the candidate seems relaxed. Then, hold a behavioral interview. Behavioral interviews are the best tool you have to identify candidates who have the behavioral traits and characteristics that you have selected as necessary for success in a particular job. Additionally, behavioral interviews ask the candidate to pinpoint specific instances in which a particular behavior was exhibited in the past. In the best behaviorally-based interviews, the candidate is unaware of the behavior the interviewer is verifying. Purpose of the Interview Job Interview Match Dance During a job interview, the candidate has the chance to present him or herself professionally. Sometimes, if all else is a good match, the candidate is selected for the job. Sometimes, the company's needs and the candidate's strengths are not a good match. The job interview is the right time to discover this. Additional Resources for Job Interviews Eight Hiring Mistakes: From Application to Interview Hiring decisions that result in "bad" hires sap your organization's time, training resources, and psychic energy. These are the top hiring mistakes to avoid during your recruiting and hiring process. Do these eight activities with care; your recruiting, interviewing and hiring practices will result in better hires. Better hires will help you develop a strong, healthy, productive, competitive organization. Nine Recruiting and Selection Tips: Ensure Successful Hiring These nine tips will help you in recruiting and hiring a candidate who will become a successful, contributing superior employee. Remember that you're hiring for the future. While a new employee has to make economic sense for today's tasks, the best hires are people who position you to profit as your business moves into the future. This email is written by: Susan M. Heathfield Human Resources Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Missing a lesson? Click here. About U. is our collection of free online courses designed to help you learn a new skill, solve a problem, get something done, or just learn more about your world. Sign up now, and we will email you lessons on a daily or weekly basis. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the About.com 'Conduct Powerful Job Interviews' email. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement