Another skills PPT

1. Interviewing Skills
& iCIMS 2023

2. Why Interviews Are Important
 Help you to assess a candidate’s strengths, weaknesses,
and suitability for the job
 Provide you with the information you need for making the
best hiring decisions

4. Why Interviews Are Important
Interviews:
 Help you to assess a candidate’s strengths, weaknesses,
and suitability for the job
 Provide you with the information you need for making the
best hiring decisions

5. Why is Interviewing so Crucial?
 Both the organization and the candidate have a lot to lose
if an interview leads to an improper match.

6.  Interviews that are not based on a proper job analysis
won’t elicit meaningful information.
 Subjection to personal bias and other sources of error.
 Some candidates are very practiced at interviewing.
 Interview questions may be too closed-ended.
 Poor listening skills.
How & Why Interviews Go Wrong

7. Plan Your Strategy
 Know and understand AAS’s policies and procedures
 Determine key selection criteria
 Prepare a description of the job and the organization

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Rating Scale
The most critical element of the rating scale is not how
many levels it has, but rather how those levels are
defined.
Use a rating scale anchored to benchmarks (example
answers, descriptions, or definitions of answers). Use
Subject Matter Experts to develop the scale and
benchmarks.

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Five-level Rating Scale
What would one expect or want an outstanding candidate
to give as the best possible answer?
(5 point)
What is an acceptable answer that one would expect a
qualified candidate to give?
(3 point)
What would one expect as a poor answer from a candidate
who has little or no knowledge or skill on this job
requirement?
(1 point)

10.  Organizations that use the first approach – per question rating – tend to be in the public-
sector or otherwise very structured in their human resources or selection procedures. Below
is a typical 5-point scale used with this approach:
 Well Qualified (5) Candidate provides a thorough response to the question. Candidate
demonstrates a thorough understanding of the issues at hand that is more to substantially
more than the job requires. Response is well thought-out and well presented. Overall,
candidate’s response is complete, addresses all aspects of the question and does not require
probing.
Qualified (4-2) Candidate provides an acceptable response to the question. Candidate’s
understanding of the issues at hand is equal to or slightly less that what the job requires.
The response may not be as complete or thorough as the well-qualified candidate’s response.
Overall, candidate’s response is complete, addresses the question and any probing required
is minimal.
 Not Qualified (2-1) Candidate fails to provide an acceptable response to this question.
Candidate’s response does not convey the level of experience/expertise required in this
position. Candidate’s response may be vague or incomplete. Overall, candidate fails to
provide experience/expertise demonstrative of the requirements of this position.

11.  1. Conduct a Job Analysis. Identify the job characteristics (i.e., job tasks, duties, and responsibilities) and the
competencies/knowledge, skills, abilities required to perform the job successfully.
 2. Determine the Competencies to be Assessed by the Interview. Consider which competencies are measured
most effectively with an interview.
 3. Choose the Interview Format and Develop Questions. Determine if you will use a behavioral interview or
situational interview. Work with subject matter experts to develop questions.
 4. Develop Rating Scales to Evaluate Candidates. Determine the proficiency scale and develop accompanying
proficiency level examples. (NOTE: May not be applicable to a selecting official’s interview.)
 5. Create Interview Probes. Establish if probes may be used. If probes will be used, draft specific probes for
each question.
 6. Pilot-Test the Interview Questions. Pilot test the interview questions on persons similar to the anticipated
candidates. Check for clarity and appropriateness.
 7. Create the Interviewer’s Guide. Prepare an interviewer's guide, question booklet, and rating form.
 8. Document the Development Process. Document all stages of the interview development.
 September

12.  What is a Job Analysis?
 •A systematic examination of the tasks performed in a job
and the competencies required to perform them
 •A study of what workers do on the job, what
competencies are necessary to do it, what resources are
used in doing it, and the conditions under which it is done
 •A job analysis is NOT an evaluation of the person
currently performing the job

13.  What is a Job Analysis?
 •A job analysis consists of three general steps:
 1.Tasks and competencies are collected
 2.Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) rate the tasks and
competencies
 3.Any low-rated tasks and/or competencies are dropped

14.  Uses for a Job Analysis
 •Job analysis data can be used to determine:
 –Job requirements
 –Training needs
 –Position classification and grade levels
 –Other personnel actions, such as promotions and
performance appraisals

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A Great Hire?
 Performs effectively.
 Stays beyond the average employee tenure.
 Demonstrates a commitment to your organization and its
mission.
 Accepts, supports, and contributes to your business
culture.
Put it simply, a great hire meets ALL of your needs and
expectations.

16.  Let candidates know what they can expect: A pet peeve of
many job seekers is that they are left "hanging" after an
interview, or they are promised follow-up that never
comes. If the candidate is a good fit, be clear about what
the next steps will be. And if the candidate is not a good
fit?
 "Always end the interview on a positive note, but be
genuine," says Goldman. "Don't tell the candidate to call
you if you don't mean it."

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Steps to the Process
 Know what you want.
 Best hiring practice you’ll ever need! What 10 qualities you want
the top 10% to possess?
 Design for consistency.
 Design your interviewing process. It is a critical step that often
interviewers have no or little training in doing.

18. Interview Question Worksheet
Essential Functions
Function # 1 Prepares, scans and quality reviews
patient records.
Question 1:
Potential Follow-up Question:

19. Better Interviews
 Make them structured.
 Eliminates haphazard interviewing.
 Standardization allows you to compare apples to apples.
 Decreases legal liability
 Aids in documentation
 Provides equal treatment to all candidates
 Make them competency based.
 Make them behaviorally focused.

20. Review Your Notes
 Notes should be factual
 Avoid any opinions or personal biases
 Include job-related information only
 Keep notes on file for at least 1 year

21. Characteristics of Questions
 Realistic,to the point, brief and unambiguous
 Complex enough to allow adequate
demonstration of the ability being rated.
 Formulated at the language level of the
candidate, not laced with jargon.
 Tried out on job incumbents to check for clarity,
precision of wording and appropriateness.
 Not dependent upon skills or policy that will be
learned on the job.

23. Never ignore a gut feeling, but also never believe that it’s
enough.
Robert Heller
(adaptation)

24. Interview Questions
 Job Knowledge
 Demonstrate specific job knowledge or documentation of
job knowledge.
 Past Behavior
 Describe activity of past jobs that relates to the job.
 Background
 Focus on work experience, education and other
qualifications of the candidates.
 Situational
 Hypothetical situations that may occur on the job and how
candidates respond to situation

25. Traditional Questions
With these, you can gather general information about a
candidate and their skills and experience. Because these
questions are asked often, many candidates will have
prepared answers to them, so they can be used to help
candidates feel at ease in the early stages of an interview.
Examples:
 What are your greatest strengths ?
 What are your experiences that are related to the position
for which you are being interviewed?
 Why do you want to work for us?

26. Situational Questions
Ask candidates what they would do in a specific situation
relevant to the job at hand. These questions can help you
understand a candidate’s thought process. Examples:
 How would you deal with an irate customer?
 If we were to hire you, what would be the first thing you
would do?
 How do you deal with stress on the job?

27. Behavior Based Questions
These require candidates to share a specific example from their
past experience. Each complete answer from a candidate
should be in the form of SAR response – Situation, Action and
Result. Examples:
 Tell me about a crisis you could have prevented. Did you do
anything differently after the crisis had passed?
 Tell me how you resolve crises by deploying your team members.
Give me a specific example.
 Crises usually require us to act quickly. In retrospect, how would
you have handled a recent crisis differently, if you had been given
more time to think before acting?

28. Culture Fit Questions
These will help you select candidates who are motivated
and suited to perform well in the unique environment of
your organization. Examples
 What gave you the greatest feeling of achievement in your
last job? Why was it so satisfying?
 Why did you choose this type of job?
 What motivates you to work hard? Give me some examples.

29. Leading Questions
Too much information can result in candidates altering
their responses to meet the interviewer's expectations
Example
 We are an informal and team-oriented organization that
promotes taking risks and thinking 'outside the box.' We
encourage our employees to ask questions, share their
views, and approach challenges with creative solutions.
What do you consider an ideal working environment?

30. Allowing Time to Answer
 Rushing candidates or not allowing enough time for
them to think about and provide a response can result
in little or no information.
 Some candidates try to side-step a question and need
to be redirected to answer the original question.
 Give candidates enough time to respond.
 Insist on an answer.
 Allow silence to encourage them to think through a
response.

31. Problematic Questions
First rule in Interviewing:
“Innocent questions can lead to trouble.”

32. 9 Legal Landmines for Interviewers
 Problematic interview questions tend to fall into nine
categories:
 Marital Status
 Family Obligations
 National Origin or race
 Age
 Religion
 Disability
 Arrest or convictions
 Financial Condition
 Off-duty Activities

33. Illegal Questions
 Title VI, The Americans with Disabilities Act, and other Federal
and State acts forbid employers from discriminating against any
person on the basis of sex, race, national origin, religion or
disability.
 Therefore, an illegal question is any question pertaining to any
of these areas that could be construed discriminatory and is
completely unrelated to any requirement of the position.
 Questions must be focused only to determine a candidate’s
capability to perform the essential functions you have defined
for the job.

34. Must I ask each person the same interview questions?
 Each candidate should be asked the same template of questions. This
helps ensure that the applicants are compared to the job-specific
criteria and reduces the risk of discrimination in the hiring process.
You may find it necessary to ask some candidates additional questions
to explain information from their resume or application or to
encourage more complete interview responses.
If I know right away that this is not the candidate for me, must I
continue with the entire interview?
 Remember that first impressions can be misleading. If you are
convinced that you don’t have a match, you should still afford
everyone the opportunity to answer each core question from the
template. Your goal is for each candidate to be fully heard and fairly
treated. You are not obligated to extend the interview beyond the
planned questions.

35. What do I do if the candidate tells me something that is
inappropriate or personal?
If the candidate does stray into an inappropriate area, thank
the candidate for their candor, and guide the conversation back
to your interview plan.
How long should an interview last?
This depends on the position for which the candidate interviews
and the structure of your interview process. If you follow a
template, individual interviews can be completed in about 30
minutes. The most important aspect is to ask each candidate the
same questions, and allow time for them to respond completely.

36. The Interview Process and Beyond
Before the Interview:
 Put candidates at ease: Interviewing can be stressful, so do your best
to help candidates relax. Make sure candidates are greeted and
escorted, if necessary, to their interview location. Start with low key
questions.
 Don’ judge on first impressions: We’ve all met them --- people who
don’t make a great impression but end up being great employees. To
make sure you don’t overlook these diamonds in the rough, withhold
judgment until you’ve had the chance to thoroughly evaluate a
candidate’s capabilities and potential.

37. The Interview Process and Beyond
During the Interview:
 Tell the candidate a little about the job: While you don’t want to
dominate the interview time, you should start with a brief summary of the
position including the prime responsibilities, reporting structure, key
challenges, and performance criteria. This will help the candidate provide
relevant example and criteria.
 Take notes: While you won’t have to transcribe everything the candidate
says, do write down important points; key accomplishments; good
examples, and other information that will help you remember and fairly
evaluate each candidate.
 Invite candidates to ask questions: This can be the most valuable part of
the interview. Why do they want to be here---is it the challenge of the job?
The advances in the industry? The prestige of the organization? Is it the
paycheck?

39. The Interview Process and Beyond
After the Interview:
 Let the candidates know what they can expect: Always end the
interview on a positive note, but be genuine. Don’t tell candidate to
call you if you don’t mean it. If the candidate is a good fit, be clear
about what the next steps would be.
 Review notes and reach consensus. The post-interview evaluation is
the time to review notes and advance the hiring decision. Each
interviewer should be prepared to back up remarks and
recommendations with specific examples and notes from the
interview.

40. Interview Notes
 Notes should be factual
 Avoid any opinions or personal biases
 Include job-related information only
 Keep notes on file for at least 1 year

46. Why is Interviewing so Crucial?
 Both the organization and the candidate have a lot to lose
if an interview leads to an improper match.