Posted by Bill Morgan on March 15, 2010
What is a behavioral interview?
Developed several decades ago by industrial psychologists, behavioral (also known as competency based) interviews have rapidly grown in popularity and most organizations now use them to some extent. Unlike your traditional interviewing techniques, which are based around popping open questions to the candidate, behavioral interviews focus on past performance and behaviors.
The behavioral [...]
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Posted by Bill Morgan on March 11, 2010
In every interview, the trick is not to answer questions the best but to uncover the true need. The person interviewing you is not interested in great, flowery resumes and speeches but to discuss solutions to problems they have.
The candidate must find out what motivates the interviewer and most often it is given to them [...]
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Posted by Bill Morgan on February 15, 2010
In many interviews you will hear something that is a potential opportunity, but often the candidate doesn't hear it. It could be personal things that come up, pictures on the wall, something someone says to someone else, or something said to you that has nothing to do with the interview your're at.
For instance, Stacey has her [...]
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Posted by Bill Morgan on February 5, 2010
I interview lots of people on a daily basis and have many candidates interviewed by companies. I have a whole litany of things I require my candidates to do and ask as I prep them to be successful but there is one question they need to ask.
If you ask most people after an interview "So How [...]
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Posted by Bill Morgan on January 28, 2010
IIt happened. The word I dread. A manager used the word 'Underwhelmed' to described how my candidate did. The whole phrase being 'he was great technically and can probably take us to a new level, but his personality underwhelmed us, so we won't be pursuing yada yada yada'. The kiss of death when an interviewer underwhelms the [...]
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