What Color Is Your Parachute? Guide to Rethinking Interviews: Ace the Interview and Land Your Dream Job (What Color Is Your Parachute Guide to Rethinking..)
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What Color Is Your Parachute? Guide to Rethinking Interviews: Ace the Interview and Land Your Dream Job (What Color Is Your Parachute Guide to Rethinking..)
Questions for the candidateWhat criteria would you use to hire someone to do this job if you were in my seat?How would your spouse or sibling describe you with ten adjectives?I think we’re aligned in wanting this to be a good fit, you don’t want us to counsel you out in six months and neither do we. Let’s take the perspective of ourselves in six mo... See more
Graham Duncan Blog • What’s going on here, with this human?
We can avoid a situation like the one Bob found himself in by asking five key questions: What’s my firm conviction or belief? What do I want the person or people I’m communicating with to know? What do they believe? What do they need to know? What are they ready to hear at this particular time?
Bernadette Jiwa • The Right Story: The secret to spreading your ideas
“Make you like them” is a cognitive bias we have in interviewing people. You actually want to avoid being caught in that trap. I’m looking for two key drivers in a candidate. I’m looking for their passion. Do they actually love what they do? There was a young woman who worked for us fifteen years ago, a year or two out of an Ivy League school, I fo
... See moreDavid M. Rubenstein • How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
Try to unburden the interview of too many assumptions you have about the role. I like asking up-front, “So what criteria would you use if you were the one hiring someone for this role?” I love this question because of how unexpected the answers are. Some are tactical when you expect abstraction. Some improve your own criteria. Some use jargon that ... See more