Creating an effective employer interview question guide is a necessity for hiring qualified workers. But a simple search for the phrase "interview question guide" turns up 60,200,200 Google results in only 0.14 seconds. With such an ample supply of free advice, why are employee interviews so ineffective at employee screening and employee selection? The problem with most employee interviews is that the wrong questions can elicit persuasive but unpredictive candidate responses that influence managers to hire them. There are two types of wrong questions. First, you have the illegal questions - the questions you can't ask. Federal and some state law explicitly prohibit asking specific questions about age, gender, race, ethnicity, … [Read more...]
