INNOVATIVE INTERVIEWING
How confident are you that your current interviewing process is eliciting the best hires every time?
Ask
yourself honestly: how many times your organization has hired what
seemed like the best person but once hired, was someone who didn’t
“fit”? Did you ever have the sneaking suspicion that you missed the
“gold” candidate because your team’s interviewing skills were not
consistent?
You’re not alone. Many companies make similar mistakes in their hiring process, none more than in the interview. We often don’t realize how the “gut” decisions we make on first impressions can actually lead us down the wrong path in hiring. Improving your hiring team’s interviewing skills will make the process more effective, while putting your candidates more at ease.
We have to make a tremendous leap of faith in hiring someone, and often the interview process is not accurately designed to find out what we really need to know to make such a big decision. The best “actors” come off well, but the best actual on-the-job performers can behave quite differently in an interview setting, a distinction which is hard to catch if your interviewing skills rely heavily on out-dated methodologies.
From setting up the proper waiting area to asking the right questions that allow for a full, candid picture of the candidate at work, most organizations don’t prepare enough for interviewing.
Hire Alignment can help you coach your hiring managers and in-house recruiters on the art of “guided conversation” techniques as a powerful alternative to traditional interviewing skills. Through trademarked motivational training workshops, we work with your staff to make the “interview” both fun and more effective. Your candidates will be further inspired to want to work for you and you can confidently decide who is the best fit - particularly when the techniques we teach you will provide a more accurate depiction of each candidate outside the high pressure stakes of the interview room.