This YouTube video (Donald Burns) advises hiring for the future by using behavioral interviewing to identify and hire 'A players.' It emphasizes asking open-ended questions, actively listening, and probing deeper to learn who candidates are and what they want rather than projecting the interviewer's needs.
One thing you need to understand is that when you're hiring, you're not just hiring for today, you're hiring for tomorrow. If you have people on your team that you would replace if you could, then you need to find a way to replace them. You need to use the skills of interviewing to hire and bring in the perfect fit team members, the A players. The key to outstanding interviewing is to ask open ended questions that allow the person to talk about themselves. You want to find out who they are, what they want, and not what you want. You got to make sure you understand the power of behavioral interviewing and then probe a little deeper. Probing is an art form that requires the interviewer to be actively listening to the answers. If you're just going to wait for your turn to ask another question, you're not really going to get really great answers.
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