Interviewing Tips and Interviewing Techniques

How to conduct a safe, legal interview that also enables you to select the best candidate for your open positions is important. The interview is one of the significant factors in hiring. Perhaps the traditional interview is accorded too much power in selection. Learn more interviewing tips and interviewing techniques to make your interviews a powerful tool and process to evaluate candidates. Interviewing Tips and Questions - Interviewing Tips The job interview is a powerful factor in the employee selection process in most organizations. While the job interview may not deserve all of the attention that the job interview receives, it is still a powerful force in hiring. Share your best interviewing tips and questions. Conduct Powerful Job Interviews Want to hire great employees? How to conduct a safe, legal job interview that also enables you to select the best candidate for your open positions is important. The job interview is one of the significant factors in hiring because so many employers count on the job interview to help determine their best, most qualified candidates. Learn about job interviews in my free email class. Unusual Job Interview Questions Help Select the Best The job interview is a powerful factor in the employee selection process in most organizations. While the job interview may not deserve all the attention that the job interview receives, it is still a powerful force in hiring. Other background checking and work history references provide much less personalized and more factual information, and hopefully, you have also added these checks to your hiring decisions, too. But the job interview remains key to assessing the candidate's cultural fit. Candidate Thank You Letters People forget that the purpose of a job interview is not just to get the job. Sound strange to you? Its not. You go to a job interview to discover whether your talents, abilities, interests and direction are a good fit for the job, the company, and the companys mission. Learn more about the match that needs to occur during a job interview for a subsequently successful employment relationship. Best Practices in Interviewing You want to interview potential staff and effectively select the people who

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Best Practices in Interviewing

How to Interview Legally and Effectively 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 wrongfuldischarge lawsuits, and these suits can be won or lost based on statements made during the interview process. Thus, it is important to incorporate risk management into your interviewing process to help minimize your firm's exposure to employment practices liability. You, or your company, could be accused of asking improper interview questions or making discriminatory statements or comments that reflect bias. It is also possible to make assurances or promises during an interview that can be interpreted as binding contracts. Recognizing these potential danger areas is the best way to avoid saying the wrong thing during an interview. Most companies have at least two people responsible for interviewing and hiring applicants. It's critical to have procedures to ensure consistency. Develop interviewing forms containing objective criteria to serve as checklists. They ensure consistency between interviewers, as well as create documentation to support the decision if a discrimination charge is later filed by an unsuccessful applicant.

Interview Problems to Avoid To minimize the risk of discrimination lawsuits, its important for interviewers to be familiar with topics that arent permissible as interview questions. For example, you shouldnt ask a female applicant detailed questions about her husband, children and family plans. Such questions can be used as proof of sex discrimination if a male applicant is selected for the position, or if the female is hired and later terminated. Older applicants shouldnt be asked about their ability to take instructions from younger supervisors. It is also important to avoid making statements during the interview process that could be alleged to create a contract of employment. When describing the job avoid using terms like "permanent," "career job opportunity," or "long term." Interviewers should also avoid making excessive assurances about job security. Avoid statements that employment will continue as long as the employee does a good job. For example, suppose that an applicant is told that "if you do a good job, there's no reason why you cant work here for the rest of your career." The applicant accepts the job and six months later is laid off due to personnel cutbacks. This could lead to a breach of contract claim where the employee asserts that he or she can't be terminated unless it's proven that he or she didnt do a "good job." Courts have, on occasion, held that such promises made during interviews created contracts of employment.

Conduct Powerful Job Interviews

Want to hire great employees? How to conduct a safe, legal job interview that also enables you to select the best candidate for your open positions is important. The job interview is one of the significant factors in hiring because so many employers count on the job interview to help determine their best, most qualified candidates. Certainly the job interview is a key component in determining whether the candidate fits your company culture. This is so despite the fact that at least

one research study indicates that selecting a candidate who performed well in an interview only increases your chances of hiring an employee who is successful by two percent. So, perhaps the traditional job interview is accorded too much power in employee selection. But, since it is, you have the opportunity to either enhance your current skills or learn to do job interviews well, in this free email class.
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Learn more job interview tips and job interview techniques to make your job interviews a powerful tool and process to evaluate candidates. Specifically, in this job interview email class, you will learn:

The approaches to job interviews that is available for your use. How to plan effective job interviews. Who should conduct the job interview? How to conduct the job interview. How to conduct behavioral job interviews. Job interview questions that are illegal and why they are illegal. Excellent behavioral job interview questions.

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