Posts in the Category: Interviewing
By Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
Posted in - Interviewing on September 2nd, 2015
Interviewer training has been established as a key component for maximizing the predictive validity of the employment interview. Early interviewer training programs were workshop based to provide sufficient opportunity for practice and observation of interviewing …
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By Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
Posted in - Interviewing on January 22nd, 2015
There are various ways that the employment interview may be viewed or used in a selection process. They range from being a structured cornerstone of the selection process to being a perfunctory and informal chemistry …
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By Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
Posted in - Interviewing on December 10th, 2014
In over 25 years of working with organizations to improve their talent management, I am amazed at the lack of improvement in one of the most basic and ubiquitous talent management processes, the employment interview. …
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By Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
Posted in - Interviewing on November 19th, 2014
Early History – Ancient Selection Techniques
Selection decisions no doubt have been made since the beginning of time. Making such decisions using selection techniques has a shorter history but still dates back to ancient times. The …
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By Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
Posted in - Interviewing on October 16th, 2014
Extensive research has shown behavioral interviewing to be the most predictive interviewing approach in use today. However, it has some significant drawbacks and problems. Interviewers and candidates find behavioral questions overly awkward and formal. They do …
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By Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
Posted in - Interviewing on May 6th, 2014
In the seminal book on Behavior Description Interviewing, our Chairman Dr. Lowell Hellervik and his co-authors laid out a taxonomy of interview questions. In this taxonomy, each question type …
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By Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
Posted in - Interviewing & Recruiting on November 5th, 2013
Research has shown interviewer training is an important component of the structure that leads to highly effective and valid interviews. However, not all interviewer training programs are equally effective. In this blog, I would like …
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By Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
Posted in - Interviewing on June 18th, 2013
There is a lot of buzz today about video interviewing. It is being promoted as a revolutionary improvement over the traditional phone or face-to-face interview. While there is merit in using video interviewing, it is …
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By Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
Posted in - Interviewing on June 13th, 2013
I was reading an article called “How to Measure Passion in an Interview” the other day and it got me thinking about the construct of work-related passion and what it really means to me. Work-related passion …
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By Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
Posted in - Interviewing on April 16th, 2013
There are different kinds of interview questions which can be used to gather different kinds of information. In the seminal book, “Behavior Description Interviewing,” the authors outline a framework for understanding the different kinds of …
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