We provide competency-based behavioral interviewing training for interview teams including hiring managers, recruiters, and interviewers.
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Jan 2024
With interview training for hiring managers, your organization increases the odds that the next amazing candidate who walks through your door ends up on your team instead of working for the competition.
Jul 2023
To effectively conduct behavioral interviews with ChatGPT-prepared candidates, incorporate these best practices in your recruiting and interviewing process.
Jan 2023
Can a successful, but static business practice gradually lose its effectiveness? In the case of behavioral interview training, a technique that predicts-on-the-job performance far more accurately than other interview training methods, the answer is yes.
Jun 2022
Before interviewing candidates for today’s hybrid environment, companies need to reassess their leadership profiles to identify any new or existing competencies needed in future hires.
Feb 2022
Given that competition for talent will remain high, to make successful new hires, organizations need to ensure that interviewers do more than just assess candidate qualifications. They also need to know how to assess candidate fit and potential, create a good candidate experience, and sell to candidates.
May 2021
Interview questions from our Effective Interviewing!® training can make the performance evaluation process more constructive and effective. And these questions are especially helpful for virtual performance reviews.
Jul 2020
The option of hiring virtually, rather than through typical in-person interviews, has graduated overnight from a technological convenience to the new norm. Companies that hope to succeed in a virtual setting must rapidly adopt new best practices.
Mar 2020
By having the right interview techniques in place, you can overcome unconscious bias in hiring decisions and the workplace, and build an even more successful company.
Jan 2020
Sales candidates often excel at selling themselves, but that doesn't mean they can successfully sell on behalf of your company. Competency-based behavioral interviewing is an important skill every sales manager should master to ensure they hire the right candidate.
Oct 2019
Behavioral interviewing training helps attorney interviewers interpret the “how and why” behind a candidate’s answers to their questions. This equips them to predict future performance in those selected to join the firm. Read more articles on the attorney hiring process at Interviewing Training for Lawyers.
Jul 2019
Global giants like McDonald's and BMW once seemed invincible. But now, under increasing pressure to stay relevant and ward off competition in the digital age, legacy brands are looking to Silicon Valley for inspiration. As Atif Rafiq, McDonald's former chief technology officer, said in a recent interview, “We think, ‘How would Google do this? How would Amazon do this?’ ”
Jun 2019
More and more organizations are building sustainable relationships with target customers. In this talent-scarce market, we think they should also build the same kind of relationships with candidates.
May 2019
Competency-based behavioral interviewing training is based on the idea that candidates' past and present behavior is the best predictor of how they will behave in the future.
Apr 2019
Replacing the traditional panel interview with an effective team interview has a lot of advantages.
Mar 2019
Graduate students are spending too much time learning how to take an interview but rarely learn how to conduct one. Look at the problems this presents once those students enter the workforce.
Jan 2019
If you want to get at the truth about a candidate – any candidate – we caution you against relying on “give me an example” questions.
Dec 2018
Some costs of a bad hire are obvious, such as the time and personnel needed to recruit, interview, coach, mentor and develop a replacement. But hidden costs, which don't show up on your profit-and-loss statement, can be far more damaging in the long run.
Oct 2018
A joint project of researchers at Duke and Penn State found that kids who showed specific social competency traits in kindergarten were four times more likely to graduate college and have a full-time job by age 25.
Sep 2018
There is absolutely no evidence that the ability to deal with a stressful interview situation is an accurate predictor of the ability to deal with job stress. In fact, the opposite may be true.
Aug 2018
Here are two of the most commonly cited problems interviewers face and some solutions provided in our interview training.
Jun 2017
In a wide-ranging interview that appeared in The New York Times, Lazlo Bock, Google’s former Senior Vice President for People Operations, praised behavioral interviewing, panned brainteaser questions, and noted that academic accomplishments don't always translate into success.
May 2017
If you don't think a single lazy or incompetent employee can damage an entire organization, think again. Research conducted at several major universities shows that adding just one "bad apple" to a group can drive down performance by 30 to 40 percent.
Mar 2017
Here are just three of the several approaches used by technical experts at our client companies to assess technical competence.
Dec 2016
Hiring new college graduates requires some recalibrating of the interview process. Here are some questions to draw upon in your next interview.
Jul 2016
An interviewer can profoundly affect top candidates decisions to join or not to join a company.
Jan 2016
Some argue there are currently plenty of qualified individuals in the workforce and that employers routinely overlook top candidates and artificially create a skills gap.
Dec 2015
Encourage employees to think twice about changing jobs to correct just one paycheck.
Sep 2015
Selecting competencies as part of the hiring process can be a problem for hiring managers and interview teams who jump on the "competencies bandwagon" too quickly.
May 2015
Here is a quick check you can use on your favorite interview questions to make sure they are legal. There are three criteria to consider when deciding whether or not to ask a question in an interview.
Mar 2015
Behavior-based interviewing that relies on give me an example questions is in jeopardy. A number of factors including ongoing talent shortage, increasing diversity, savvy candidates, and declining authenticity threaten the continued effectiveness of this form of interviewing.
Jan 2015
Brainteaser questions have little value in predicting future performance. In the long run, they may actually discourage top candidates from accepting an offer—the opposite of their intended purpose.
Dec 2014
Do you ask job candidates to describe real situations they've faced and problems they've solved? Good idea. But what if the stories they'are telling are bogus?
Oct 2014
After interviewing the interview expert Jim Kennedy, Michelle Martinez explores how to eliminate hidden interviewer bias and make better hiring decisions.
Feb 2014
Have you ever been in an interview situation where you experienced discomfort with the candidate because of some difference between the two of you? We teach individuals to recognize this feeling and how to expand their cultural comfort zone in order to reduce bias in the interview.
Jan 2014
Suppose you're interviewing a great candidate: top school, top of the class, top references. But suddenly something is said that sets off a few alarm bells, something that seems a little over the top, even for a wunderkind. What do you do now?
Dec 2013
Shift focus away from resumes and credentials and learn more about how and why a recent graduate excelled in their studies and relevant activities.
Mar 2013
What separates top performers from average performers in engineering jobs?
Jan 2013
Your initial reactions to a candidate can be powerful and persuasive, but they can also be spectacularly wrong. Find out how to avoid the pitfalls of snap judgments in an interview and hire effectively.
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Aug 2013
To make successful hires, organizations should be determining the competencies they need to move into the future.
May 2013
In hiring decisions, a huge number of individuals on a selection committee never replace knowledge and judgment gained from trained interviewers using effective techniques.
Mar 2013
What separates top performers from average performers in engineering jobs?
Jan 2013
Your initial reactions to a candidate can be powerful and persuasive, but they can also be spectacularly wrong. Find out how to avoid the pitfalls of snap judgments in an interview and hire effectively.
Sep 2012
Here are a couple of ideas for productive phone screens for candidates when time is limited or the number of prospects is large.
Aug 2012
After running through six chief executives in five years, struggling web giant Yahoo hired a seventh: Google veteran Marissa Mayer. Although some pundits are betting against Mayer, we think she stands a chance of turning Yahoo around—but only if she was vetted properly.
Apr 2012
Many interviewers base part of their assessment of a candidate on the quality of the questions the candidate asks in the interview. However, how many interviewers realize that in the face of increasing diversity, more candidates will be seeking answers to "unspoken questions?"
Feb 2012
A huge surplus of talented workers and the growing recognition that standard interviewer training techniques don't work very well appears to be spurring the oddball question movement. But do these questions actually achieve what they're supposed to?
Dec 2011
If you think you've experienced some bad meetings, consider the unorganized discussions of candidates that can sometimes take place at the end of an interview schedule.
Oct 2011
The combination of well-prepared or disingenuous job seekers and inadequate interview procedures has made many employers vulnerable during the entire hiring process.
Aug 2011
It can be a real mistake to equate a lack of company knowledge with a lack of motivation. Focus instead on selling top candidates on the talent of the team they will join.
Jul 2011
What could Thomas Edison, who was known as the "world's greatest inventor" a century ago, have in common with today's top software engineers? Quite a lot as we recently discovered.
May 2011
Many interviewers believe it is efficient and appropriate to start an interview by telling the candidate exactly what they are looking for. That might be a good way to buy a house, but it's not usually a good way to hire an employee.
Apr 2011
Major League Baseball is currently rolling out a new technology that tracks each player's on-field performance second by second.
Jan 2011
The problem interviewers face is getting beyond the flawless facade to the real candidate. One extremely effective way of doing this is to make behavioral events the focus of the interview.
Dec 2010
These days, job seekers intent on gaining any advantage in a tough market don't have to falsify their resumes. They can hire the "experts" at websites such as careerexcuse.com to do it for them.
Oct 2010
So what do you do when you interview a co-worker? Go back 5-10 years and ask candidates to discuss education and prior work experience up to their current job.
Aug 2010
The cultural or organizational fit of a candidate is a critical element in any hiring decision. Let’s look at Mark Papermaster, who left Apple just fifteen months after joining them from IBM.
Jun 2010
Many employers struggle to adapt to the Millennial generation (also known as generation Y). Getting to know Millennials better can help you prepare for them in the interview and in the workplace.
Apr 2010
Despite the importance of the concept of organizational culture, many companies find it difficult to accurately define theirs. In his book, The Reengineering Alternative: A Plan for Making Your Current Culture Work, William E. Schneider, Ph.D., uses four models or types to define corporate culture.
Here are some quick tips from our interview training seminar to help you conduct a successful interview. We recommend that you complete the first three steps before the interview.
Most of us have experienced the interview from the candidate's perspective. But how often do we have an opportunity to evaluate the interviewer?
