One of the biggest mistakes you can make in an interview? Failing to answer a structured, behavioral question with a specific example. Unfortunately, it happens all too often. To understand how to ...

Hiring the right talent can make or break your small business. Yet many entrepreneurs struggle with creating an effective interview process that accurately assesses candidates while respecting ...

Don't wing it; listen more than you talk; have specific questions prepared, and you just might win the hiring game. Great interviewing is an art, pure and simple. Like any art form, it takes practice, ...

Job interviews are the fortune cookies of hiring—vague and often misleading. But companies keep using them, despite research suggesting that typical job interviews are mostly unreliable predictors of ...

Structured interview questions are pre-decided questions employers use to get specifc information and facts from a potential employee. Compared to unstructured or open-ended interview questions, ...

In the preliminary interview or on-site interview, you will be talking to someone who represents the hiring company. More and more people involved in hiring decisions are using a format known as the ...

The choice of questions during a structured interview can be tough. The question should be open-ended enough to elicit responses of good length yet particular enough to elicit quality responses. It ...

Job interviews have become significantly more formulaic and predictable. Employers seem to increasingly favor standardized or structured interviews, in which each applicant is presented with the same ...

The right interviewing technique helps you assess candidates efficiently. However, asking the wrong questions increases the risks of bias and may result in hiring an unsuitable person for the position ...

The 2020 update for my best-selling Ladders Interviews Guide is out now and available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle versions. I’ve included a brief excerpt below. This updated version is designed ...