Simple, effective ways to improve your interviewing and staff selection process.

Determining a list of job interview questions in advance allows comparisons of applicants across interviews. It also assists your organization to take a more team-oriented approach to interviewing and selecting candidates.

• Define the qualities, talents and skills you’d most like to have in a new employee.
• Then, devise a series of interview questions that allow your applicant to demonstrate she has the desired qualities, talents and skills.
   

Examples of questions to ask:

• What made you decide to apply at “Company”?
• Tell me about yourself and your last/current job/class.
• When we call your previous employer or references what are they likely to tell us in regards to your dependability/attendance?
• Tell me about a time when you demonstrated your trustworthiness or integrity in school or at work.
• Tell me about a time when you were working hard to complete a task and you were asked to leave that task before completing it and start a different job.
• Tell me about a time when you had to go above and beyond the call of duty to get a job done.
• Give me an example of a time when you had set a goal for yourself and tell me how you went about accomplishing it.
• Give me a specific occasion on which you followed a policy with which you did not agree.
• Give me an example of a time when you were able to successfully communicate with another person even when that individual may not have personally liked you (or vice versa).
• Tell me about a time when you improved a task or job you were working on.
• In what kind of a work environment do you do your best work?