FREE online courses on Interviews - Right Person For The Right Job - Planned interviews save time

 

As an interviewer, you can become organized and save time by:

 

·         Writing a detailed job description, which specifies what the candidate is expected to do.

 

·         Deriving a brief Person Profile from the job specification telling what the candidate is expected to know in order to do his job. A Person Profile attracts the type of candidates the interviewer is interested in.

 

·         Interviewing only those candidates who will report to you directly.

 

·         Conducting multiple interviews by working out a systematic schedule well in advance, if the job is for a senior position.

 

·         Asking questions in a manner designed to make candidates talk in some detail about themselves. If your queries invite one-word answers like yes or no, it will lead to long pauses, which will make the interviewee tense and uncommunicative.

 

·         Conducting interviews involving discussion among a group of applicants on a given subject.

 

·         Selecting the best from the rest by being a mere observer in the entire exercise.

 

An ill-prepared interviewer may talk endlessly about himself rather than getting the candidates to talk about themselves.