Re:The Most Revealing Job Interview Question
by ubervero on Thursday October 04, 2012 @02:29PM
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I love interviewers' tips, upvoted. However, it's not clear to me how Kevin is able to "ask a question early in the 5 minutes that is a complete tangent and has little to do with their goal" to see if they "say no". As much as you want to test the candidate's confidence, you have to ask a relevant question. Maybe an example could help?
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Re:The Most Revealing Job Interview Question
by kevin_morrill on Thursday October 04, 2012 @02:41PM
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Here's a good example... one candidate chose to explain how residential firefighting works. They got into explaining why water is really important. I asked them about halon and they indulged a little bit. Then I asked them to explain how halon works. And so on...
If they haven't shut me down by the 3rd question, it's a sign they're never going to, and I stop distracting them.
For junior candidates, I usually don't even bother with this, because I am not going to stop myself from hiring just because they fail this question. So it's usually better to see if they can do well at just the core question.