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The Planning Stage: Identify and Analyze The Other Party
The Planning Stage: Identify and Analyze The Other Party
The Planning Stage: Identify and Analyze The Other Party
• Leading questions
• These attempt to force the respondent to answer
in a particular fashion
• Often unfair and manipulative
• Ex: How committed are you to our company’s
philosophy of customer service?
• Illegal questions
• These are areas that are off limits and do not
need to be answered if asked
• Age, appearance, marital status/family, physical
disabilities, race/ethnicity, religious and political
beliefs
Preparing for the Telephonic
Interview
• Minimize distraction
• Follow-up
The Interview Process
• Opening
• 50% of decision is made within the first
30-60 seconds (Dave Deaver—nat’l mgmt
recruiter).
• Greeting/building rapport, orientation (given
by interviewer)
• Question and answer section
• Interviewer—control and focus, listen actively,
use secondary questions when necessary
Process Continued
• Interviewee
• Give clear/detailed answers, correct
misunderstandings, cover your own agenda
• Closing
• Review and clarify results of interview,
establish future actions, conclude with
pleasantries
During the Telephonic Interview
During the Telephonic Interview
During the Telephonic Interview
• Information gathering
• Assess situations, events, persons
• Employment Interview
• Prepare for possible formats
• Telephone—often used when candidate is out
of state (can use notes in front of you!)
• Panel—candidate questioned by several people
at one time (saves company time and $)
• Behavioral—focus primarily on past experience
(often these questions are used in many types
of interviews… phone, panel, etc.)
How to deal with tricky Interview
Question?????????