Interviewing Tips and Techniques

Use this interviewing checklist to prepare your team to interview potential employees. If you follow these steps, you will ensure that you make great hires.

Want job interview tips to help you select employees? These job interview tips will help you assess the skills, experience, and cultural fit of your potential employee. 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 it receives, the...

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.

You want to interview potential staff and effectively select the people who best fit your organization's needs. To do this, your interview process, interview questions, and interview exchanges must be legal, ethical, and not offer assurances that potential staff can interpret as promises. Want to know more about interviews?

From lies to lack of preparation, poor attitude, and insincerity, you can pick up on signs and collect evidence during an interview that the potential employee is not for you. If you know what you are looking for, employers can successfully spot these job interview red flags - before making a job offer to a prospective employee. They’re...

Employers need a checklist of dos and don'ts about how to interview prospective employees. Some actions by the candidate, though, are immediate red flags. When the employer heeds these red flags, the candidates selected are more likely to succeed in your employment. If you find yourself wondering, "whatever was he thinking," following the...

Behavioral interviews are a powerful tool for assessing your job candidate's skills and accomplishments. You can determine whether he or she is the best fit for your job by using a behavioral interview. Find out more.

The internal job interview serves many purposes. The employer holds an internal job interview to assess the skills and experience of a current employee. The internal job interview can be so much more than just a job interview, though. Here's frequently asked question about internal job interviews. You might want to solicit opportunities to...

People forget that the purpose of a job interview is not just to get the job. Sound strange to you? It’s 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 company’s mission. Learn more about the match that needs to occur during a job interview for a subsequently successful employment relationship.

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.

Informational interviews allow people who are interested in a particular career field, job, company, or industry to interview (talk with) a person who is currently, successfully employed in a job in their field of interest. People who request informational interviews want to know about the job, career, industry or company from the perspective of an insider. They want information about real life e…

The telephone interview or candidate screen allows the employer to determine if the candidate's qualifications, experience, workplace preferences and salary needs are congruent with the position and organization. The telephone interview saves managerial time and eliminates unlikely candidates. Review the suggested format.

Interviewing is often just as stressful for the interviewer as it is for the job seeker. Knowing the different types of interviews, and why and when they are successful, can help make your interviews more comfortable for both parties. Find out more.

You want samples and examples, so, this featured tool is a Job Candidate Evaluation Form. Useful for comparing candidates, it also gives your interviewers information about the skills they need to assess in each candidate. Take a look and remember, you can print a printer-friendly version.

People forget that the purpose of a job interview is not just to get the job. Sound strange to you? It’s 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 company’s mission. Learn more about the match that needs to occur during a job interview for a subsequently successful employment relationship.

These nine tips will help you in recruiting and hiring a candidate who will become a successful, contributing superior employee. Learn how job analysis helps you in recruiting and hiring a superior staff.

Genentech, Fortune magazine’s pick as the best company to work for, regards recruiting talented employees as a top priority. Recruiting the “right” employees is a lengthy process that can include a candidate returning to the company to interview 5-6 times. A candidate may participate in 20 interviews. I’ll bet other best companies approach...

A phone interview allows you to call your most promising job applicants prior to bringing them in for a job interview in your organization. The phone interview allows you to screen the applicant's skills, knowledge, experience, and salary expectations before you invest company time in onsite interviews. The phone interview saves company time,...

To make it to an interview, a candidate has already passed a review of his resume, a review of his cover letter, a comparison against all of the other current candidates applying, and possibly, a telephone screen. Consider the odds of an individual's candidacy making it this far. Under these trying circumstances, you'd think the candidate's interview would shine. Wrong.

Employers need to notice and heed certain interview red flags. Whether your candidate is unable to supply details about accomplishments or arrives late and is dressed for a party, you need to notice and evaluate interview red flags. You spend too much time and resources on training and enculturation to let a bad candidate in your door. Readers...

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.

If you've interviewed potential employees for jobs, you have sample interview questions that shine the spotlight on your best potential employees. These are the interview questions you use again and again because they work for you. These interview questions get candidates talking and contribute to a successful job interview. Your favorite interview questions might work for others, too. What's your favorite interview question and why?