Reinventing Job Interviews

March 2nd, 2023.

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One of my favourite Podcasts to listen to is Work Life by Adam Grant, Professor of Organisational Psychology at Wharton Business School. Work Life is about understanding how to help people succeed at work. If you are managing/leading people in your startup or company;

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Reinventing Job Interviews

One of my favourite Podcasts to listen to is Work Life by Adam Grant, Professor of Organisational Psychology at Wharton Business School. Work Life is about understanding how to help people succeed at work. If you are managing/leading people in your startup or company, I highly recommend this.

In one of the episodes, specifically in Season 3 episode 6 titled: Reinventing the Job Interview, Adam Grant examines how we can improve the way we hire and get hired. He explores the flaws and biases of traditional job interviews, such as relying on gut feelings, asking irrelevant questions, and making snap judgments. He also shares some evidence-based practices and tools that can help us make better hiring decisions and showcase our skills and potential.

Some of the key takeaways from this episode are:

• Job interviews are often poor predictors of job performance because they measure how well we can sell ourselves rather than how well we can do the job.

• We can reduce the influence of first impressions and stereotypes by using structured interviews that ask consistent and relevant questions across candidates, scoring them on objective criteria, and conducting them blind or anonymously when possible.

• We can also use work samples or simulations that mimic the actual tasks and challenges of the job, such as case studies, role plays, or auditions. These methods can reveal more about our abilities and fit than resumes or interviews.

Most companies/startups are bad at hiring. It’s not because people aren’t smart, it’s because generally as humans, we are bad at judging a person’s ability objectively. Most interviews are riddled with biases and most common interview practices only ensure we hire the wrong people.

For decades, managers have bet on the wrong people — and rejected the right ones. The Kansas City Star once rejected an application from a cartoonist named Walt Disney. Record labels said no thanks to the Beatles, Madonna, U2, Kanye and Ed Sheeran. A hotel, a police department and a Kentucky Fried Chicken all denied Jack Ma a job.

Hiring managers can improve their hiring processes by overcoming these three (3) basic mistakes which are:

1. Asking the wrong types of questions

Some questions are just too easy to fake. What’s your greatest weakness? “How many golf balls fit into an airplane”, etc have no real value in telling you how well a candidate will perform on the job;

2. Focusing on the wrong criteria; and

3. Favouring candidates who are the best talkers.

We should instead ask situational and behavioural questions rather than ones that are easy to fake or reveal more about the manager than the candidate. Focus on work samples and situational simulations of the job, which can give employers a better idea of candidates' abilities than interviews.

That being said, would you be reinventing your job interview process? I’d definitely love to hear from you!

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