Last week we discussed the common interviewing mistakes, so now we are going to go over how we can prevent them from happening.
You can avoid making these mistakes by designing an effective interview with the following five steps:
- Decide who is involved in the selection process and develop the selection criteria – clarifying and weighing information in the job description and specification.
- Specify the needs and wants and weigh the wants
- Determine the assessment strategies and develop an evaluation form – Once the criteria has been established and weighted, this is the basis for how candidates will be compared and evaluated.
- Develop interview questions – Use job-knowledge and worker-requirement questions to determine the capabilities of the candidate and their motivation and willingness to work under certain conditions (i.e. shift work or travel).
- Develop candidate-specific questions – Open-ended, job-related questions based on the candidate’s application form and resume can be a great indicator of the applicant’s abilities.
To this point, we have learned about all of the prep work needed before the interview. Now it’s time for the moment everyone has been waiting for. Stay tuned until next week (Wednesday Sept 28th) for our final installment – Conducting an Effective Interview.
