Why is it Important for Everyone to Have a Well-Written Job Description?
A job description is a “snapshot” of a job. An effective job description therefore needs to communicate clearly and concisely what..
Recruitment and Selection
Different Types of Interviews
Unstructured interviews An unstructured interview is one in which the questions asked and topics covered vary considerably from interview..
Rating Scales Commonly Used in Interviewing
Structured and Unstructured Interviews Employment interviews can be structured, or unstructured in format. Structured interviews are..
Dealing with Candidate Oversupply: Pros, Cons and Implications for the Future of Staffing
The last couple of years have been hectic and highly pressured with HR departments, recruiters, and business in general reeling from the..
Selection Diagram
This quotation by Mort Meyerson, an American business leader, sums up the job of the leader as almost split in two: first, it is about..
Using Contrary Evidence Questions When Interviewing
In order to get the most from an interview, the best approach is to ask questions which are behaviorally based such as “Describe how..
Examples of Probing Interview Questions
We often want or need more information than we get when we ask a question during an interview. Probing is asking follow-up questions when..
Job-Specific Interview Tools
For some time now, it has been established wisdom that preparing for an interview in advance is a good idea. There is simply too much going..
Conducting a Metrics Interview
The “metrics interview” is just a twist on the traditional behavioral interview in that it relies upon the assumption that someone’s..
How to Strengthen the Validity of Your Interviews
Knowing that interviews are notoriously unreliable, subject to gross amounts of human error, and that candidates are becoming more and more..
