Behavior-Based Interviewing...
More Than a Gut Feeling
Behavior-Based Interviewing
Selecting the right person for the job is critically important for today's
organization. Hiring the wrong person is not only costly in terms of time
and money, but it also can have a negative effect on employee morale and
damage an organization's reputation.
Whenever an interviewer uses "gut feeling" to make a selection decision,
the risk of making the wrong decision goes upunless the "gut feeling"
is really an intuitive sense that is brought about by objective versus
speculative data. The best predictor of how a person will perform in the
future is past performance. Behavioral interviewing provides the necessary
skills to generate information about a candidate, which allows for a more
objective evaluation of the information offered.
Behavior-based interviewing is accomplished through a select set of skills.
The interviewer follows a process that allows a candidate to tell what
they have actively accomplished, the types of traits and skills they have
demonstrated in the past, and what skills they are likely to exhibit in
the new job. The benefits of behavioral based interviewing include the
following:
- Provides an opportunity for the interviewer to discover and discuss
the candidate's on-the-job behaviors,
- Allows the candidate to sell him/herself,
- Allows interviewer to quickly determine if a candidate has the requisite
skills, and
- Helps ensure that the interviewer enjoys a successful selection
decision.
By the end of this program, participants will be able to
- Interview applicants efficiently and effectively,
- Prepare interview questions based on the required job behaviors,
- Use in-depth, open-ended probes to gather candidate information,
- Identify the elements of a successful interview,
- Recognize the importance and limits of an interview,
- Distinguish the consequences of poor interviewing,
- Specify common interviewing errors,
- Design a tailored interview, and
- Maintain EEO guidelineslawful and unlawful questions.
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