We provide competency-based behavioral interviewing training for interview teams including hiring managers, recruiters, and interviewers. We have been publishing articles for over 40 years to address the myriad of issues encountered in the process of hiring top talent.
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Jan 2022
Hiring Successful Leaders for a Hybrid World
A hybrid environment creates a new set of leadership challenges. The lack of consistent access to the entire team makes it harder for leaders to assess performance, build teams, and inspire performance. Managers will have to adapt their leadership styles and find a balance between face-to-face and remote leadership to create an equitable and supportive workplace.
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May 2020
Virtual Interviews: The New Benchmark
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.
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Sep 2019
Behavioral Interviewing Training Reinvented
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.
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Jun 2019
How to Interview Sales Candidates
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.
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Jan 2019
A Case for Attorney Interviewing Training
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.
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Jul 2018
Fallacy of "Give Me an Example" Questions
If you want to get at the truth about a candidate – any candidate – we caution you against relying on “give me an example” questions.
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Mar 2018
The Flawed Interview Process
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.
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Dec 2017
Competency-based Behavioral Interviewing Training
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.
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Mar 2015
NCHRA:Does Behavior-based Interviewing Still Work?
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.
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Dec 2014
Training Magazine: Invented Lives
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?
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Mar 2010
Helicopter Parents Take Flight
We've been studying behavioral interviewing practices for 35 years, and we've seen some very strange trends, but it’s hard to top the following: parents are beginning to join their child in their job interviews.
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Sep 2009
YouTube Impacts Behavioral Interviewing
There's been exponential growth in interview coaching services—from outplacement firms to the Internet and now to YouTube.
