The ONLY 3 interview Questions You SHOULD Ask Candidates 💯 #shorts

26 Jul 2022 · 1 min

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This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube short titled "The ONLY 3 interview Questions You SHOULD Ask Candidates 💯 #shorts" (published 2022-07-26). It features a solo speaker giving hiring/interview advice and recommending three high-leverage questions to identify top candidates: (1) ask about their most impressive career achievement (a question Elon Musk reportedly uses), (2) ask what they are deeply passionate about and have them teach it to assess communication and persuasion, and (3) ask about a 3–12 month project they worked on and probe for their specific contributions to evaluate depth and ownership.

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Here are 3 high-leverage interview questions that you can be asking so you can hire the best people, because we all want to work with the best people. Number 1, what is the most impressive thing that you have done in your career? It gets to the crux of things. Are they humble? Are they hungry? Are they smart? This is a question that Elon Musk uses all the time. And then you can ask more questions and you can follow up on those. Number 2, what is something that you are deeply passionate about? What are you deeply passionate about? Think about it for a couple of minutes and then I would like you to teach me about it. It shows very quickly how well they communicate, how well they can tell a story, and how convincing they are, because people on your team They're gonna have to be able to do that, and they are also going to be able to train other people. Number 3, tell me about a project that you worked on for maybe 3 to 12 months or so, something that you're really proud of, and tell me specifically what you did there. I'm going to ask questions. This is more of a follow-up to number 1, and this allows you to go a little deeper into what this person considers impressive and whether you are impressed or not.