Chapter 3. Conducting the Interview – Questioning and Scoring

This chapter will show you how questions are used to assess and score the skills the candidate reveals in the interview.

You will need to have practiced all the skills we have worked through in the previous chapters to be able to make sense of the questions and answers, as well as to assess the candidate's score in the interview itself. In particular, you need to have practiced the NLP skills you learnt in the previous chapter. A good way of gaining confidence with NLP is to use these skills in your daily life; become familiar with these skills in a way that they become almost natural to you. This will ensure you are well prepared to observe the candidates' performances.

I need to show you the way questions can be used to clarify not only what skills each candidate has, but also what level of skill. To give you the greatest benefit, I will take you through an example of a job, its job description, skill requirements, interview questions...