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What's Going on Here, With This Human? - Graham Duncan Blog
Don’t approach interviewing as a process where you are trying to trick or trip up the other person. First, that is intrinsically a bad way to behave. Second, once the person realizes what you’re doing, they’ll stop trusting you and, in most cases, become guarded. That will make it harder for you to determine whether the person is a good match for y
... See moreDaniel Gross • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
What kinds of challenges are interesting to you and why? Can you describe a favorite project? This tells me what a candidate is passionate about. What do you consider your greatest strengths? What would your peers agree are your areas of growth? This question gets both at a candidate’s self-awareness and what his actual strengths and weaknesses mig
... See moreJulie Zhuo • The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
It can be very instructive to ask, “What questions do you have for me?” or “What questions do you have about us?” or similar variants on this theme. The goal is to get the candidate to voice information about what he or she really cares about, and it also tests how well the candidate knows the job or project under consideration. On top of all that,
... See moreDaniel Gross • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
On interviewing: Whoever's sitting across the table from me is getting my utmost attention and I suspect I can learn something that they know about the world. And I'm not just trying to evaluate them. I'm trying to learn at the same time.