It’s not so much that job candidates lie as that they don’t always tell the truth.
It is up to the interviewer to keep asking the questions that reveal true attitudes and behaviors. It is your skill as an interviewer in applying behavior based interviewing training that will reveal the underlying truth. The first questions won’t do it. The skill is in how you probe with effective follow-up questions to uncover job and cultural fit.
For example, many interviewers cannot escape the old-fashioned request for a candidate to list their strengths and weaknesses. Savvy interviewees are well prepared. They will come up with an answer that reflects well on them. A strength? Their problem-solving. A weakness? Their attention to detail.
To get beyond these answers, you have to dig deeper. Find out about the implications of their behaviors. What problem did they solve? How did they accomplish this? How did it affect others on their team? What did they learn? Where did they have to go for support and resources? How did they handle nay-sayers? Did they get all the credit…why or why not?
Make sure you don’t let candidates off with easy, standard answers. Go for the gold…keep probing until you have a clear idea of how they might behave on YOUR job in YOUR unique corporate culture.
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