Becoming a Great Job Interviewer

• Can we afford you? It does you no good if you find the perfect candidate but find out at the end of the interview that you can't afford him or her. Remember that the actual wage is only part of an overall compensation package. Although you can't always offer higher wages for particularly good candidates, you may be able to offer them better benefits or a nicer office.

Interviewing dos

What should you do to prepare for your interviews? Here are some ideas:

• Review the resumes of each interviewee the morning before interviews start. Not only is it extremely poor form to wait to read your interviewees' resumes during the interview, but you miss out on the opportunity to tailor your questions to those little surprises uncovered in the resumes.

• Become intimately familiar with the job description. Telling interviewees that the position requires duties that it really doesn't is poor form. It's definitely poor form to surprise new hires with duties that you didn't tell them about in the interview.