Becoming a Great Job Interviewer

* From Managing For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Date: Friday, August 12 2005

Draft your questions before the interview. Make a checklist of the key experience, skills, and qualities that you seek and use it to guide your questions. Of course, one of your questions may trigger other questions that you didn't anticipate. Go ahead with such questions as long as they provide you with additional insights regarding your candidate.

Select a comfortable environment for both of you. Your interviewee will likely be uncomfortable regardless of what you do. You don'tneed to be uncomfortable, too. Make sure that the interview environment is well-ventilated, private, and protected from interruptions.

Avoid power trips. Forget the old games of shining bright lights in your interviewees' eyes, turning up the heat, or cutting the legs off their chairs (yes, some managers still do this!) to gain an artificial advantage over your candidates. Get real — it's the twenty-first century!

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