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The Manager's Guide to Conducting Interviews
The Manager's Guide to Conducting Interviews

The Manager's Guide to Conducting Interviews: On the other side of the table – plan and execute excellent interviews to get the right person for the job

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The Manager's Guide to Conducting Interviews

Chapter 2. Starting the Interview – Greeting and Settling

This chapter uses the preparatory work you did in the previous chapter as a foundation to develop your skills in managing the candidate and the interview process. These new skills include everything you need as a new manager to perform at your peak in the initial stages of the interview. You will learn how to practice these skills outside of the interview so that you give an outstanding performance in the interview.

In this chapter, you will learn to be completely comfortable with the following:

  • Making introductions

  • Observing the candidate

By the end of this chapter, you will have all the skills and knowledge you need to manage your first interview to the point of asking questions, which we will deal with in the next chapter.

I know you prepared your foundation skills in the previous chapter, but the skills you will develop in this chapter are slightly different. You will need to practice these new skills in real social interactions. There...

Making introductions


Making an effective introduction is an essential part of the interview. It is crucial that you help the candidate relax and also relax yourself. You need to set the tone. If the interview begins well, everything that follows should be much easier.

Your first impression

You need to make a good impression on the candidate from your first meeting. It is very difficult to change someone's first impression of you. Therefore, it is important to represent you and your company as competent and capable throughout the interview process. As a manager new to interviewing, you have to walk a tightrope balanced between being neither under nor overconfident, neither too personal nor too formal.

Human beings make a quick "friend or foe" decision when they meet someone. This is prompted by the Four Tens, of which you need to be aware.

The Four Tens are as follows:

  • The top ten inches of you

  • The first ten steps you take toward the candidate

  • The first ten words you speak

  • The first ten seconds

The...

Observing the candidate


As a new manager, you are likely to be more nervous than an experienced one. In the interview, you have to manage the process, keep to time, and so on. You need to deliver information in mini speeches. To observe the candidate, you need to learn about the following things:

  • Misleading first impressions

  • How eye movements indicate thinking style

  • How body positions and movements can be read

You must be well versed in these tasks to leave you the thinking time to observe the candidate.

Note

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Think about learning to drive a car. In the beginning, there are so many things to remember to do. With practice, you learn how to drive without having to think about it.

First impression of the candidate

You are now seeing just how much is happening in the interview process. It is important that you continuously draw your thoughts together as you go through the interview to properly respond and direct your questions.

What is your first impression of the candidate?

  • Does the candidate appear...

Summary


I have shared critical skills in this chapter that will allow you to be fully aware of the informal and non-verbal communication in the interview room. You should be feeling much better equipped to properly conduct your first interviews.

I will repeat that you need to have practiced the skills in this chapter in any environment you are able to. You may find some of the techniques awkward at first, but it is better to get that behind you before the interview takes place.

You now understand how important it is to have learned and practiced these skills. In the interview, you are doing several things at once. As much as possible, everything you are doing should be automatic, almost unthinking, to allow you to observe the candidate.

We have covered a lot in this chapter, which together with the previous chapter will give you every opportunity to prepare for, and to be aware of, these important issues. If you thoroughly work through both chapters, you will have taken a big step toward gaining...

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What you will learn

  • Learn the skills you need being on the other side of the table to hire the right person for the job Plan and prepare to have all the information you need from HR Interact confidently with the candidate to gain the information you want from them Assess the candidate in a constructive way Effectively review and assess candidates with considered and collaborative scoring

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Table of Contents

4 Chapters
Before the Interview – Preparing and Practicing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Starting the Interview – Greeting and Settling Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Conducting the Interview – Questioning and Scoring Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
After the Interview – Agreeing and Deciding Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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This is a good practical guide which should suit first time managers and interviewers. The points are well explained and backed up by real life examples. By its very nature, the guide is generic, but it can be easily modified to suit specific situations. I will be recommending it to my clients.
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Sorry, but being from silicon valley I think this is old school advice. Good intention but it missed the mark for me.
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