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Best Way to Go about in Team Interviews

Before the interview begins, the employer will need to decide whether to use one interviewer at a time, or more. Is it a good idea for employers to conduct team interviews in which two people from the company interview a candidate at the same time? The answer is—yes and no.… Continue Reading…

Best Way to put Job Interviews into Perspective

You are nervous because of what the job interview means to you. This is it. Real life. Your future. Your career. What you’ll be doing for the rest of your life. Success and failure hang in the balance.

Wait a minute, let’s try to put this into some kind of… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Conduct Casual Encounters During Interviews

If your initial interviewers have done an effective job of screening, most candidates invited back for further inter­views at your company should receive offers. Therefore, each interviewer at the company should start with the presumption that each interviewee he sees will be extended an offer.

Once a candidate is invited… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Conduct Indirect Selling in Screening Interviews

Especially in screening interviews, much of the selling that goes on from the interviewer’s standpoint is indirect sell­ing—the interviewer selling himself. In choosing a company m which they think they will feel comfortable, candidates judge their comfort level primarily from the way they react to the interviewers they meet. Indeed,… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Make a Decision on Picking the Right Candidate after Interviews

After all you have been through—both as interviewer and as interviewee—it would be nice if you could plug the infor­mation you gathered from the interview into a computer, press a button, and wait for the correct decision. But no such luck. Worse, not only can’t you get the right answer… Continue Reading…