Conduct The Perfect Job Interview - Without Any Questions
You’re a trained interviewer, seeking to exert your mythical superpower of looking into the soul of your interviewee, when you ask, “What is your greatest weakness?”
This is your fifth interview today and it’s not the first time you’ve asked that question. You’ve heard it all day, “My greatest weakness is I just work too darn hard.” Is this what you really want to know, or are you seeking something else? Does this persons’ ability to get the job done, and do it well, really hinge on a question like this?
Our common sense tells us that this “verbal tango” during a job interview does nothing to help us achieve our goal, which is to find the best candidate based on the skills required for the job. We sense there is a better way but decades of momentum tells us that this is the way that job screenings are done. Otherwise wouldn’t someone have found a better way to screen employees? This must be the best way…