CHAPTER6
Interviews
Honing your interviewing process will allow you to build a competitive advantage. When you can differentiate well, you will identify strong, highly capable candidates whom your competitors will overlook or mismeasure.
Once you enter the interview stage, the total cost of evaluating a candidate increases substantially, so it’s critical to do it once per candidate and get it right. This chapter addresses measurement, building and running interview teams, scheduling and running interviews, phone screens, and on-site interviews.
Measuring People
All measurements from instruments in the real world have a margin of error, whether the instrument is figuring the distance between galaxies or the rate of nuclear decay in atoms. The ...
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