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Chapter 3. Tips for Improving Employee Interviews

Few, if any, people are hired without an interview. It’s the single most widely used device for screening job candidates. And not only is the interview widely used, it also typically carries a great deal of weight. That is, the results tend to have a disproportionate amount of influence on the decision of who is hired and who isn’t.

Effective interviewing skills aren’t just for company recruiters or those people who work in an organization’s human resources department. Every manager is involved in the hiring process for his or her department. So every manager needs to be capable of conducting effective interviews.

What can you do to be a more effective interviewer? Based on an extensive body of research, ...