Hishem AzzouzHost Of Recruitment Mentors Podcast

The Importance of Interview Prep

Name: The Importance of Interview Prep
Uploaded: 2024-03-06T17:00:41+00:00
Duration: 46 s
Channel: Hishem Azzouz
Description: In this excerpt, the speaker reflects on a process they have refined over the past year: interview preparation and debriefing. They acknowledge that team…

6 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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In this excerpt, the speaker reflects on a process they have refined over the past year: interview preparation and debriefing. They acknowledge that team members sometimes cut corners—skipping thorough candidate preparation when busy or doubting a candidate’s fit. To counter this, they instituted a policy that every candidate must receive full preparation, including researching the hiring company, reviewing the job specification multiple times, and understanding client requirements. The speaker stresses that sending under‑prepared candidates to interviews is unacceptable and that ensuring comprehensive prep gives each candidate the best possible chance of success.

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Is there one process that you can think of that you've improved over the last 12 or so months that has had a big impact? So I mentioned about interview prep and interview debrief. We did have people cutting corners a little bit. You know what it's like when you're busy and you think this candidate's probably not going to get this job, they're not great for it, I might have better candidates in there, so I won't go out of my way to really prep them and really get them ready for the interview. I think what we've really improved on over the last 12 months is making sure that every single candidate has every possible chance of getting that job. If you're sending them in there not fully prepped, I think you're crazy. Yeah. And unfortunately, there's a couple of occasions where we found that people were going into interviews and, you know, they, they hadn't done their research on the company. They hadn't gone through the job spec multiple times and really understood what the requirements are from the client. Like I said, you work so hard to get these interviews.