PREPARATION FOR a Job INTERVIEW

PREPARATION FOR THE INTERVIEW

The interview planning is fundamental. For a better focus we recommend, once again, to manage with the profile revealed by our client, internal or external. From there on, take the necessary time to review the background and the conditions of all of the candidates before receiving them personally. The experienced interviewers can make conclusions from an application form while they go from their office to the reception room where they are going to interview the candidate.

There are two moments in which it is possible to ask the candidate to complete the mentioned form: before the interview –this is the option that I like the most- or after it. We use this last option for the high level positions or for those cases in which we interview the people recruited through headhunting for the first time.

During the planning, it is very important to detect the difficult topics or “problems” of the candidate. In that way, you can take notes on the side of the CV or background form and not to forget to talk about these topics during the interview.

If your company is managed by the competence scheme, to which we will dedicate the second part of this book, the planning responds to the same scheme, it means, you will have to work with a profile by competence and the associated questions.

DEDICATE ENOUGH TIME TO THE INTERVIEW

Don’t write your appointment book superimposing compromises or with only little space between interviews; consider that the interviewee can be late, that you can be late attending them, that the interview could be longer or that you may need to use extra time to analyzed the information you have just gotten during the interview.

PREPARE AN APPROPRIATE FACILITY

Keep the following rules in mind:

  • 1. It has to be private. This is very important so the aspirants can talk freely.
  • 2. There should be almost no distractions. Among these, we can include a telephone that rings without someone picking it up, people who suddenly goes into the office or your own distraction if you are thinking on all the work you have left to do.
  • 3. The aspirant should be comfortable. Your behavior and attitude as an interviewer will determine in a great deal the comfort of the visitor. Make your best effort to create a comfortable environment. If the candidate feels comfortable, then you are assuring yourself a more productive interview.
  • 4. Both of you should be in the appropriate places.

Remember that anything you might face, either if it is a trip, a masterpiece or what occupies us right now, a selection interview will have better results if you dedicate it the minimum time of preparation.
 

 

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