How to Hire the Best Employee for Your Company

How employers can make interviews more effective

Podcast Highlights

• What Are The Most Effective Interview Strategies for Small Business Owners?
• To avoid getting swept away by sparkling personalities or people who are really passionate, small business owners need to build a scorecard that will enable them to remain objective during the interview process.
• Your scorecard should include a list of all the skills, traits, and competencies that you’re looking for.
• You should also consider the questions you’re asking and then, decide what a bad, okay, and good answer to those questions might look like as a comparison.
• If you plan on having multiple people conduct the interview, give each person on your interview panel a specific topic or competency to focus on, to avoid repeating questions.
• Take notes immediately after each interview because as the day goes on, you’ll begin to forget the finer details of each meeting; when this happens, you may revert to your biases rather than focus on the actual facts.
• Conducting structured interviews, in which you ask all candidates the same questions, helps reduce personal biases and makes it easier for you to keep notes.

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