We provide competency-based behavioral interviewing training for interview teams including hiring managers, recruiters, and interviewers.
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Jan 2024
With interview training for hiring managers, your organization increases the odds that the next amazing candidate who walks through your door ends up on your team instead of working for the competition.
Jul 2023
To effectively conduct behavioral interviews with ChatGPT-prepared candidates, incorporate these best practices in your recruiting and interviewing process.
Jan 2023
Can a successful, but static business practice gradually lose its effectiveness? In the case of behavioral interview training, a technique that predicts-on-the-job performance far more accurately than other interview training methods, the answer is yes.
Jun 2022
Before interviewing candidates for today’s hybrid environment, companies need to reassess their leadership profiles to identify any new or existing competencies needed in future hires.
Feb 2022
Given that competition for talent will remain high, to make successful new hires, organizations need to ensure that interviewers do more than just assess candidate qualifications. They also need to know how to assess candidate fit and potential, create a good candidate experience, and sell to candidates.
May 2021
Interview questions from our Effective Interviewing!® training can make the performance evaluation process more constructive and effective. And these questions are especially helpful for virtual performance reviews.
Jul 2020
The option of hiring virtually, rather than through typical in-person interviews, has graduated overnight from a technological convenience to the new norm. Companies that hope to succeed in a virtual setting must rapidly adopt new best practices.
Mar 2020
By having the right interview techniques in place, you can overcome unconscious bias in hiring decisions and the workplace, and build an even more successful company.
Jan 2020
Sales candidates often excel at selling themselves, but that doesn't mean they can successfully sell on behalf of your company. Competency-based behavioral interviewing is an important skill every sales manager should master to ensure they hire the right candidate.
Oct 2019
Behavioral interviewing training helps attorney interviewers interpret the “how and why” behind a candidate’s answers to their questions. This equips them to predict future performance in those selected to join the firm. Read more articles on the attorney hiring process at Interviewing Training for Lawyers.
Jul 2019
Global giants like McDonald's and BMW once seemed invincible. But now, under increasing pressure to stay relevant and ward off competition in the digital age, legacy brands are looking to Silicon Valley for inspiration. As Atif Rafiq, McDonald's former chief technology officer, said in a recent interview, “We think, ‘How would Google do this? How would Amazon do this?’ ”
Jun 2019
More and more organizations are building sustainable relationships with target customers. In this talent-scarce market, we think they should also build the same kind of relationships with candidates.
May 2019
Competency-based behavioral interviewing training is based on the idea that candidates' past and present behavior is the best predictor of how they will behave in the future.
Apr 2019
Replacing the traditional panel interview with an effective team interview has a lot of advantages.
Mar 2019
Graduate students are spending too much time learning how to take an interview but rarely learn how to conduct one. Look at the problems this presents once those students enter the workforce.
Jan 2019
If you want to get at the truth about a candidate – any candidate – we caution you against relying on “give me an example” questions.
Dec 2018
Some costs of a bad hire are obvious, such as the time and personnel needed to recruit, interview, coach, mentor and develop a replacement. But hidden costs, which don't show up on your profit-and-loss statement, can be far more damaging in the long run.
Oct 2018
A joint project of researchers at Duke and Penn State found that kids who showed specific social competency traits in kindergarten were four times more likely to graduate college and have a full-time job by age 25.
Sep 2018
There is absolutely no evidence that the ability to deal with a stressful interview situation is an accurate predictor of the ability to deal with job stress. In fact, the opposite may be true.
Aug 2018
Here are two of the most commonly cited problems interviewers face and some solutions provided in our interview training.
Jun 2017
In a wide-ranging interview that appeared in The New York Times, Lazlo Bock, Google’s former Senior Vice President for People Operations, praised behavioral interviewing, panned brainteaser questions, and noted that academic accomplishments don't always translate into success.
May 2017
If you don't think a single lazy or incompetent employee can damage an entire organization, think again. Research conducted at several major universities shows that adding just one "bad apple" to a group can drive down performance by 30 to 40 percent.
Mar 2017
Here are just three of the several approaches used by technical experts at our client companies to assess technical competence.
Dec 2016
Hiring new college graduates requires some recalibrating of the interview process. Here are some questions to draw upon in your next interview.
Jul 2016
An interviewer can profoundly affect top candidates decisions to join or not to join a company.
Jan 2016
Some argue there are currently plenty of qualified individuals in the workforce and that employers routinely overlook top candidates and artificially create a skills gap.
Dec 2015
Encourage employees to think twice about changing jobs to correct just one paycheck.
Sep 2015
Selecting competencies as part of the hiring process can be a problem for hiring managers and interview teams who jump on the "competencies bandwagon" too quickly.
May 2015
Here is a quick check you can use on your favorite interview questions to make sure they are legal. There are three criteria to consider when deciding whether or not to ask a question in an interview.
Mar 2015
Behavior-based interviewing that relies on give me an example questions is in jeopardy. A number of factors including ongoing talent shortage, increasing diversity, savvy candidates, and declining authenticity threaten the continued effectiveness of this form of interviewing.
Jan 2015
Brainteaser questions have little value in predicting future performance. In the long run, they may actually discourage top candidates from accepting an offer—the opposite of their intended purpose.
Dec 2014
Do you ask job candidates to describe real situations they've faced and problems they've solved? Good idea. But what if the stories they'are telling are bogus?
Oct 2014
After interviewing the interview expert Jim Kennedy, Michelle Martinez explores how to eliminate hidden interviewer bias and make better hiring decisions.
Feb 2014
Have you ever been in an interview situation where you experienced discomfort with the candidate because of some difference between the two of you? We teach individuals to recognize this feeling and how to expand their cultural comfort zone in order to reduce bias in the interview.
Jan 2014
Suppose you're interviewing a great candidate: top school, top of the class, top references. But suddenly something is said that sets off a few alarm bells, something that seems a little over the top, even for a wunderkind. What do you do now?
Dec 2013
Shift focus away from resumes and credentials and learn more about how and why a recent graduate excelled in their studies and relevant activities.
Mar 2013
What separates top performers from average performers in engineering jobs?
Jan 2013
Your initial reactions to a candidate can be powerful and persuasive, but they can also be spectacularly wrong. Find out how to avoid the pitfalls of snap judgments in an interview and hire effectively.
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Jul 1995
Former San Francisco 49ers coach Bill Walsh considers the hiring process "possibly the single most important act of top executives," but he also calls it a "crap shoot." He has some sound advice for improving the odds.
Jul 1995
Female executives traditionally have been in short supply in high tech firms, but technology-driven companies are currently hiring more senior executive women than ever before.
Jul 1995
"Computer snoops" retrieve "deleted" information - some of it presumably erased years ago - from hard drives.
Jul 1995
For years, economists have been predicting that the United States would experience a shortage of competent employees by the end of the century.
Jul 1995
As evidenced by the reading of the O.J. Simpson verdict, body language is "guilty" of failing to accurately predict behavior.
Apr 1995
John Kotter, Harvard Business School professor, spent twenty years tracking the careers of 115 MBAs from the Harvard class of 1974. In his book, The New Rules: How to Succeed in Today's Post-Corporate World, he describes how these students survived the downsizing, restructuring, and globalization that characterized two of the most volatile decades in American business history.
Apr 1995
For better or worse, first impressions count. They influence our choice of friends - sometimes even of partners - and they play a major role in the hiring process.
Apr 1995
Despite rollbacks in affirmative action, nothing can alter the fact that today's global economy demands a diverse workforce.
Apr 1995
As the economy becomes increasingly global, adaptability, patience, and tolerance – all qualities that effective interviewers already look for – will become a standard part of every job description.
Apr 1995
If you're asking any of the following questions, it may be time for your company to address its interviewer training needs.
Apr 1995
A hassle arrest is an unwarranted police harassment that never leads to a conviction. This is a fact of life in minority communities and one of the reasons why it is illegal to ask job applicants about their arrest records.
Apr 1995
Major employers - such as Disneyland and Ford - are increasingly relying on technology to simplify the hiring process.
Jan 1995
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reports that colleges routinely exaggerate the average SAT scores of incoming students.
Jan 1995
The financial world has recently been rocked by a series of events that underscore both the risks investors run in the marketplace and the risks management faces when making hiring decisions.
Jan 1995
A recent survey asked managers in more than 100 large corporations to describe their most unusual experiences interviewing prospective employees. Here are some of their replies.
Jan 1995
These days, most job descriptions - even the most entry-level - call for a college degree. This makes complete sense from a screening standpoint, but the risk is that the pool may grow too small for some really big fish.
Oct 1994
The first annual Competency and Performance Conference revealed the growing interest in competency-based tools by private and public sector organizations in America and internationally. Related issues in the use of these tools were also highlighted at this meeting.
Oct 1994
When Brazil defeated the U.S. team in the World Cup Soccer playoffs this summer, they illustrated a key principle behind the focus on competencies.
Oct 1994
We recently received a call from a major Hollywood studio asking if we could help improve a new TV talk show host's interviewing skills with tips from our interviewer training. We gladly responded to the request.
Oct 1994
At the start of each recruiting season, we publish some of the surprising questions we discover are still being used by interviewers.
Here are some quick tips from our interview training seminar to help you conduct a successful interview. We recommend that you complete the first three steps before the interview.
Most of us have experienced the interview from the candidate's perspective. But how often do we have an opportunity to evaluate the interviewer?
