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The best interview questions tell you about the person behind the resume – and speak to details not on a resume.

This is another post on what are the best interview questions to ask. Most of these posts focus on the traditional, standard, stupid, inane, canned, and silly questions that have no relevance to future success. For example, how can the candidate know how they can help your organization if you don't first discuss performance expecations. Secondly, asking deep value/character based questions about frustrations, motivations, feelings - will generate superficial responses until a high degree of trust has been established.

The one question I did like on this post was the one about "what will your former boss say when I..."

Barry Deutsch

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Interviewing remains the most popular assessment for employee screening, but the reliability remains low, often in the 50 percent range.

Ira shares an outstanding story that I see repeated over and over in the vast majority of companies - weak interviewing by hiring managers. This is one of the most critical failure points in the hiring process.

Most companies do a terrible job preparing managers and executives to hire effectively. In most companies, hiring is NOT a process, it's a random set of arbitrary meetings where each individual manager does interviewing in their own misguided way. The minute you turn hiring into a process, train all your managers, and put some rigor behind it - hiring accuracy starts moving up from the traditional low reliability level in the 50% range.

Barry Deutsch

Partner

IMPACT Hiring Solutions

http://www.impacthiringsolutions.com/Blog

Have you read our FREE book - You're NOT the Person I Hire?

This best-selling book is available as a FREE digital download on our website.