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How to Not Conduct Twin Falls Job Interviews


For a job interview, prep work and readiness doesn’t fall solely on the candidate. If you are conducting a job interview, there are quite a few things you need to be doing as well. When the candidate is applying for jobs in Twin Falls, here are some things you definitely shouldn’t do to ensure a successful interview, courtesy of CBS Money Watch:

1. Don’t dominate the conversation: remember that the primary focus of the interview is on the candidate. Talking too much, especially about yourself, will result in little useable information being gathered from the limited interview time frame.

2. Avoid the Halo/Horns Effect: this sneaky psychological effect is when a candidate makes an incredibly strong (halo) or lousy (horns) impression on you that instantly sways your judgment. First impressions don’t make or break the candidate, so pay attention to their performance for the rest of the interview.

3. Don’t conduct short interviews: interviews take up time. Multiple interviews in a single day can take up a lot of time. Brief interviews are more convenient, but it’s hard to make a sound judgment on a candidate when you didn’t get much time to assess him. The ideal time frame for an interview should be 45 minutes to an hour.

4. Don’t rate candidates against each other: comparing candidates’ strengths and weaknesses against each other is tempting, but counter-productive. Grade each candidate on established criteria; not against each other.

By Kyle Wise

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