This is a YouTube video titled "Smart questions to ask references about candidates." It contains a monologue or talk from August 8, 2024, discussing effective techniques for obtaining detailed and concrete feedback about job candidates from their references by asking comparative and probing questions. The content appears to be a single speaker sharing advice rather than a multi-speaker conversation.
You learn a lot from asking tough and probing questions. Another thing that we'll ask is things like, not just what do you think about this person? But we'll say, okay, how would you rate Kuba and the top whatever percent of people in his career as a, let's say, pay me to account manager of any pay me account managers you've ever seen? Maybe they'll say, oh, Kuba's for sure the top 10%. And then I'd say, okay, what separates Kuba from the absolute best paymeeta cap manager you've ever worked with? What is the difference between Kuba and that person? What could they do differently? And that forces the reference to give you real, actual, concrete information rather than a hand wave, easy sort of gesture.
