Conduct the 5-Core Question Interview

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The traditional interview is a useless tool for predicting future success. A series of canned questions soliciting prepared answers from candidates feeding back what they think you wish to hear is not an effective interview.

We have developed over the last 25 years through 1,000 search assignments and 100,000 interviews, 5 core interview questions based upon the top 5 predictors of success. Using these interview questions as a core part of your interview process will dramatically improve hiring accuracy.

Most hiring managers believe that at least 100% of the candidates they meet embellish and exaggerate their accomplishments. The key to successful interviewing is to eliminate the opportunity to embellish and exaggerate and leverage a powerful tool to predict future success.

Combined with the Magnifying Glass Approach to Interviewing, no candidate will be able to make up answers fast enough. Instead, they'll be able to clearly and precisely describe their accomplishments or they will self-implode in the chair quickly.

Spotlight on our Desktop Hiring Guide - Conducting a Great Interview

Desktop Hiring Guide

Give one to every supervisor, manager, and executive. A decade from now they will still have these in a corner of their desk. The 5 steps to implement the Success Factor Methodology are on one side and the 5-core question interview with magnifying probing questions is on the other. Your managers will not be able to thank you enough for giving them this tool.

Services and Resources To Conduct the 5-Core Question Interview

FREE Hiring Check-up

Our FREE Hiring Check-up will examine 8 key components of a best practice hiring process. If you qualify, we'll benchmark your process against our Success Factor Methodology. The results will identify improvement opportunities.

FREE Success Factor Review

We'll conduct a FREE review of a Success Factor Snapshot that you've put together. The lack of a great Success Factor Snapshot is the #1 reason your new hire might fail in the first year. This tool will enable you to easily hire a top talent candidate.

Advanced Interviewing

Invest in helping your executives and managers build teams of top talent through this on-site workshop to learn how to conduct effective and insightful interviews to eliminate candidate lies, embellishment, exaggeration, and misleading claims.