We provide competency-based behavioral interviewing training for interview teams including hiring managers, recruiters, and interviewers.
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Aug 2024
Interviewers traditionally focus on verifying the skills and experience found on a candidate’s resume to make hiring decisions. However, as artificial intelligence begins to impact jobs functions, traditional qualifications will become less critical for job success.
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.
Oct 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.
Jul 2023
To effectively conduct behavioral interviews with ChatGPT-prepared candidates, incorporate these best practices in your recruiting and interviewing process.
Nov 2022
Replacing the traditional panel interview with an effective team interview has a lot of advantages.
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.
Oct 2021
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.
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.
Jan 2021
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.
Dec 2020
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?’ ”
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.
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.
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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Apr 1992
Recently, Fortune performed some research on the "New Crisis in Business Ethics" (April 20, 1992). Their research showed that 50% of respondants under 30 cheated in college and 12-24% included false information on their resumé.
Apr 1992
You have a right to know if a candidate can write well. It's better to learn this in the interview process than after you hire them.
Jan 1992
Diversity means taking advantage of new and multiple opportunities. In a historical perspective, this is how American business has benefited from diversity.
Jan 1992
The ADA aims to eliminate barriers to employment attitudes of employers as well as physical access. As interviewers we need to focus on what the job involves, not the disability of the applicant. It is also timely for all of us to check our attitudes and assumptions about disabled workers.
Jan 1992
In our diversity interviewer training, we mention a current trend whereby some candidates are less willing to be acculturated to mainstream standards.
Jan 1992
As current students learn to handle open-ended questions in school exams, they will also be more confident and effective when hearing them in job interviews. Eventually, interviewers will start to meet more savvy candidates who are tested in school for thinking ability and will be applying it in job interviews.
Jan 1992
When a CEO talks about the quality of interviewing in his company we listen. Business Week made this easy with a cover story on T.J. Rodgers, CEO of Cypress Semiconductor as "Bad Boy of Silicon Valley."
Jan 1992
The California Court of Appeals ruled in favor of an applicant at Target Stores saying questions about his religious and sexual preferences invaded his privacy.
Jan 1992
The following remarks about treatment of women in the workplace were recently delivered at a luncheon speech in San Francisco by Francis Conley, Professor of Surgery at Stanford University.
Jan 1992
The Civil Rights Act of 1991 elevates senior management interest in the way interviews are conducted in their companies.
Jan 1992
In a seminar for a company's college recruiters, our client introduced our Effective Interviewing!® training by quoting research from the College Placement Council on student attitudes about interviewing.
Jan 1992
T.J. Rodgers at Cypress Semiconductor stresses the importance of knowing the company's revenue per employee and using this to measure yourself against the competition.
Oct 1991
Interviewing is something you do for the rest of your career.
Oct 1991
We encourage managers to consider interviewing training that calls for seeing each person as a unique individual. This entails becoming aware of your own cultural filters so that you are better able to manage your assumptions and reduce unconscious bias.
Oct 1991
Perhaps because we have a program on how to interview a diverse workforce, we are seeing a range of response by corporate America to the issue of diversity.
Oct 1991
Most of our readers are familiar with this figure from the Department of Labor Study, Workforce 2000: 85 percent of new hires in the 90's will be women, minorities and immigrants.
Oct 1991
Gloomy headlines across the country about staff cutbacks seem to mask a trend that partially explains why we are now so busy coaching organizations on how to improve their interviewing and selection skills.
Oct 1991
With the ADA, interviewers must not ignore obvious physical disabilities. Instead, they must explore with the candidate how their disability can be accommodated on the job.
Oct 1991
The end of the cold war and easing of tensions between East and West means about 500,000 men and women currently in the U.S. Armed forces will be released into civilian jobs. This represents some 25% of current armed services personnel.
Jul 1991
In The Career Makers, author John Sibbald profiles the top executive search professionals, many of whom claim to measure an amazing array of competencies in the candidates they present to their clients.
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?
