I asked eight people the interview questions they use for finding A players.
In the graphic below, here’s what they said.
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Taking a cue from suggested question 4, the one thing that Nadya does better than anyone else is visual graphics. Surfacing interview questions that actually work, not as much. Of the 8 suggested questions, only three are behavioral, with the other five being either generalities, hypotheticals, or self-perceptions. Of the three behavioral questions, the question on the time when procrastination had the best payoff for you offers the best chance of revealing important personal qualities. How you snagged your most recent job could yield tales of smart, diligent, effort, or it could reveal a lucky encounter that doesn’t reflect much on the candidate. The question about the last thing you read brings a lot of randomness to the answer. The last three things you read would be better. But what do I know almost 30 years after publishing the research and the book on behavioral interviewing?