Unlocking Job Insights: What Candidates Often Miss

Name: Unlocking Job Insights: What Candidates Often Miss
Uploaded: 2024-11-17T13:05:24+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Jason M. Lemkin
Description: Jason M. Lemkin, a final-round interviewer, asks candidates what they've learned from earlier interviews. He uses their gaps to reveal what they missed…

17 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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Jason M. Lemkin, a final-round interviewer, asks candidates what they've learned from earlier interviews. He uses their gaps to reveal what they missed about the company and its risks, then tells them directly. CEOs sometimes hate this honesty, but he sees it as essential.

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I don't know if I did this with you, but I do this with almost every executive. I like to be one of the last interviews and I ask them, Kyle, you've, you've, you've, how many interviews have you done? 10. Oh my God. And 4 with Adam and 6 with Dean. I'm like, okay, tell me what you've learned so far. And that sounds like a fishing question. It's actually not a fishing question because I want to learn what you didn't learn that matters. And then I tell the client every, the, the, I mean, not the, the prospect, the candidate, not the client, the candidate, everything I know. That they didn't figure out. It's usually a lot. I'm usually shocked that by 10 interviews in, they don't know a couple fundamental things about the company, a couple fundamental risks. I feel like that's my job. And once in a while, the CEO will get mad at me for this. Once in a while.