On-the-Job Interview
Should you stop with the silly one-hour interview and put your candidates to work to find out how they get things done? Kris Dunn of The HR Capitalist thinks so. He writes about it in “Should You Ditch the Second Interview and Have Candidates Work a Half Day For You?”
Here’s my take: Show, don’t tell. If you can actually do something, let’s see it.
A Little Background on Background Checks
Sure, you do background checks on employees. Or do you? I’ve known of a few people in HR and HR consulting who had some pretty questionable elements on their resumes, let alone regular employees. A famous flareout came when Radio Shack CEO David Edmondson admitted lying on his resume about earning a degree he didn’t have. (Lying about academic degrees seems like a pretty common, albeit easy to verify, “error” on resumes.)
That’s why I thought an article on The Consumerist called Do a Background Check On Yourself made so much sense. Potential employees can check to make sure that their records are correct, and boneheads who chose to lie about their backgrounds can do it at their own peril. The article says:
Companies can order all sorts of reports on you and make judgments about you, from banks, to landlords to employers. Here’s how you can see the data they’re seeing and make sure the record is right.
There are lots of valuable resources listed in one easy-to-access place.
Excellent Interview Questions
Simon Meth at SittingXlegged conducted a contest to determine “the very best interview questions.” He has winners.
Don’t Phone in Your Phone Interviews
Penelope Trunk, who writes The Brazen Careerist blog, wrote a very interesting article called “Five Ways to Do Better in Phone Interviews.” It’s stimulating thought. Penelope says:
- Attend to your surroundings.
- Dress for the part.
- Stand up.
- Prepare for the most obvious questions.
- Don’t forget to close.
Check out the whole article. Energy, my friends, matters whether you’re doing an in-person interview or if you’re on the phone.
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