6 Interviewing Mistakes

6 Virulent Interviewing Mistakes You Can Regret (a Lot) Later.

Don't you just love the word "virulent?" It means actively poisonous or intensely noxious. These six mistakes are like deadly viruses to your healthy hiring intentions.

You can spend painfully large sums of money to generate candidates, and hours of brain-cramping time trying to guess someone's intentions. But still your results are sickly and weak. You know the job and even have a sense for what "kind" of person will work best. You think you have a great on-boarding system to get people up to speed fast. You even consider yourself a top-rate performance manager.

But time after time you send out an offer letter feeling like (at best) you’re guessing or (at worst) you might be risking a court date by the time it's all over.

Maybe the culprit is in your interviews. If you take any of these little mistake microbes into your 2-3 hour of time with job candidate, you’re in serious jeopardy and you may not even know it.

Sadly, after 12 years participating in around 600 hires, I can tell you that these viruses are common and quite lethal. Hiring managers and business owners in almost all industries limp along either not knowing they're sick or thinking the disease just isn't curable. They stumble along, sick and feverish, trying to avoid hiring anyone who will be dangerously counter-productive, dreaming of great employees like 7-year olds dream of Santa Claus - maybe they exist, but maybe it's all a big, fat well-intentioned lie.

In fact, every one of these mistakes is curable if you act. But if you can’t identify and take the appropriate medicine, any one of them can get you.

Do your new employees seem to want something more from their work than you can give them? Perhaps you’re making the exotic Raj S. Mistake

If you feel like you’re an amateur psychologist who’s making a lot of bad diagnoses, you could have the Dog Question Mistake virus.

If your interview heroes are turning into employee nightmares, you could be falling ill to the Plausible Answer Error.

Losing great candidates waiting for the boss? The Dreaded Figurehead Disease.

If you’re getting answers that seem good, but your employees just aren’t quite right, you could have the “Satisfied with a Lie” virus.

If your current employees roll their eyes at their new teammate, you may be carrying the Trust Yourself malady.

Find out about all of them in the FREE e-lesson series, 6 Virulent Interviewing Mistakes You Can Regret (a Lot) Later.