Tag Archives: Interviewing

After hearing brilliant interview answer after answer, you might be shocked to learn that AI wrote those answers.  Article Descriptors| Recruiting /Interviews – AI generated answers – How to – 6 min read Yes, it’s true that today, the great interview answers that you are hearing may not be genuine …

Most resume scans are shallow, so they pass over factors that reveal if a candidate is exceptional.  Descriptors | Recruiting/Resume screening – Talent indicators – How-to – 5 min read Why Most Resume Scanning Approaches Fail To Identify Exceptional Candidates Most traditional resume-scanning processes come up short. They are designed …

One joke can quietly hurt diversity, raise anxiety, and make interviewees feel like they won’t fit.  In addition, most of these icebreaker jokes don’t even meet the practice’s primary goals of relaxing the candidate, reducing anxiety, and making the candidate more open to talking.  So why do so many interviewers …

The easiest way to raise the interview’s low predictive value is by reducing candidate anxiety. Yes, it’s a fact that Google research, unfortunately, found that most interviews were no more predictive than a coin flip. And academic research has further shown us that one of the primary reasons for the …

Mutilating unusual names may seem inconsequential, but it hurts diversity hiring, both now and in the future. In today’s talent marketplace, every organization is fighting to hire as many diverse and international candidates as they can. Unfortunately, many of these candidates have names that are unfamiliar to most US hiring …

Their backgrounds cause diverse interviewees to act differently but not matching expectations may cost them a job!

Unnecessary stress hurts interviewee performance. However, increasing transparency reduces most candidate stress.  Stop Treating Interviewees Like Adversaries By Increasing Interview Transparency Let me be blunt. Most recruiting organizations seem to enjoy making their interviews highly stressful. In fact, throughout recruitment history, job interviews have been highly adversarial and exclusively one-sided. …

Dr. John Sullivan speaks with host John Hollon about all things remote work: remote interviewing, remote onboarding, and how to manage a team remotely.

I recommend that you enter this waiting period with an “everything matters” approach. This means that rather than idly waiting, a candidate should take numerous actions that will provide them with a competitive advantage during this last phase of hiring.

For some unexplained reason, the sales component of recruiting is often ignored. Few recruiting leaders ever make a scientific assessment of the sales component of recruiting, but if they did, they would instantly become champions of peer interviews. Peer interviews (where a panel of team members conduct a candidate interview) …