Have you ever been sitting in a stock-standard, stale, boring, question-and-answer job interview? Whether you were doing the interviewing or being interviewed, it's not the best way to identify talent.
Tyler Cowen & Daniel Gross have some suggestions as to how to conduct better job interviews. In their book Talent, chapter 2 is titled 'How To Interview And Ask Questions'. Today's episode is the best bits of that chapter.
The first part of the episode is around the types of questions you ask (hint: if you google "top 15 most common job interview questions", you're doing it wrong). The second part of the episode is about the style of the interview: breaking out of pre-prepared canned responses and getting into conversation mode, changing the setting of the intetrview, and 'going meta'.
The next time your conducting a job interview (or the next time you want to showcase your talents in a job interview), these ideas will make things a hell of a lot better for everyone involved.
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