Comments on: Hiring managers don’t know interview questions

By: Facing a Day’s Worth of Job Interviews Without Losing Your Mind | Dice Blog Network

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:02:45 +0000

[...] to learn about culture and management style. Besides, people like talking about their work and this many people are not expert interviewers so talking about their work is easier than [...]

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By: MyOnlineCareerCoach » Blog Archive » Helping hiring managers conduct better job interviews

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:18:34 +0000

[...] ‘Hiring Managers Don’t Know Interview Questions,’ from the Cube Rules blog, focuses on reassuring candidates that their impressions are correct: many hiring managers really don’t know what they’re doing. Don’t worry too much about the occasional weird question, awkward silence, or meandering conversation, they say. The key, they stress, is that there are really only 3 basic interview questions that you have to answer. They all boil down to: Can you do the job? Will you love the job? And, what people do you like to work with? If you can bring anything the hiring manager asks back to this, they say, you’ll be golden. (Still, it couldn’t hurt to start training hiring managers to be more talented as interviewers!) [...]

By: Scot

Scot — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:43:33 +0000

Sigh…pretty amazing…

By: Scot

Scot — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:43:00 +0000

Sigh…pretty amazing…

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:24:01 +0000

Weirdest Question during an interview: If I were to go out to eat lunch with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be and what would I eat? What exactly was that to determine?

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:24:00 +0000

Weirdest Question during an interview: If I were to go out to eat lunch with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be and what would I eat? What exactly was that to determine?

By: Scot

Scot — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:31:37 +0000

I don’t think any manager feels at ease letting people go. I said that I think they are better at doing a layoff than an interview — they’ve had more practice at it in this recession. Plus, companies train managers how to do a layoff to ensure they don’t get sued.

But the lack of practice doing interviews, or even the preparation for the interview by the manager, is telling. Hiring is a high priority skill if the manager wants to achieve their goals. Yet companies don’t train managers on how to do interviews or how to select the best candidate.

Thus, candidates are better at answering interview questions than managers are at asking them.

By: Scot

Scot — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:31:00 +0000

Thus, candidates are better at answering interview questions than managers are at asking them.

By: Rick Saia

Rick Saia — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:18:11 +0000

Any manager who feels completely at ease in letting someone go needs a sensitivity transplant. Maybe that would help him or her “tune in” better when interviewing a prospective employee so that the interview becomes more of a flowing, rather than disjointed conversation.