Transform Your Interviews: From Interrogations to Engaging Conversations
The Sterling Choice
Recruiting in the Food Manufacturing, FMCG & Engineering Sectors | Permanent & Contract Recruitment | UK and USA
Hi again!
Maybe it’s just me and my line of work that means bad candidate experiences resonate with me so much, but I’m fed up with hearing about candidates’ bad interview experiences. And I don’t mean ‘bad’ as in, they weren’t successful in securing the role. I’m talking about impersonal, cold, one-way interrogations.
I’ve seen a lot of experiences being shared on LinkedIn lately. Believe it or not, I have personally heard horror stories of candidates taking part in a 4-5-hour interview process and not being offered refreshments or adequate bathroom breaks.
Interviews should be positive experiences for candidates... and hiring teams.
Both parties get so much more out of an engaged and comfortable conversational experience because an interview SHOULD be a conversation, not an interrogation! A good interview builds trust, so candidates feel safe to divulge information, ask pertinent questions, and showcase their true values - as well as their skills and experience.
A good interview allows an interview panel to make more informed decisions because they will be able to really understand the candidates' values, priorities and skills. THAT'S how you'll get the best match for your team and company.
If you can engage in a more conversational style of interview, you'll find information flows much more easily and organically.
I can help you cultivate a more fulfilling, useful and strategic interviewing process that gets results. Get in touch.
Over and out,
Kathy.
Packaging Technologist Manager at Al Hatab bakery / Circular Economy Advocate
4 个月Businesses should remember that it is a two way thing, I am there to see if you are a place I actually would like to work for / with, In the not so distant past, I was invited to a 2 hour teams panel interview.. The first 20 minutes would be to give a 'short pre-prepared presentation about yourself, achievements, and personal SWOT' this was then going to be followed by '?an unprepared presentation in which you would have 30-minutes prep time and then 15 mins presenting and a 15 minutes Q&A' and after that... 'a 40-minute competency-based interview' Noped out of that one in double quick time, that screamed to me that they were just going to throw as many obstacles and problems as they could come up with, also there was no time scheduled in there for any questions I might have, it was so one way I wasn't sure how I would find my way back.. Without a doubt, the best 'interviews' I have ever had was when it was more a conversation, I was relaxed, the interviewer was relaxed, we got a feel for what the role and business was like and how I would fit in to it.