Top Traits of an Organized Job Interview

This article is the 8^th in our series of 15 articles to help you with hiring for your organization. In our previous article we discussed the tips and techniques recruiters can follow to advertise their job openings properly. In this article we take the concept and process of hiring even further and talk about some of the top traits of conducting an organized job interview.

Recruiting – like most other things in life – is both an art and a science. By focusing on the science of recruiting, recruiters can methodically and consistently improve how they conduct the process. Interviews are an important part of the hiring process, and before we talk about the tips to conduct a successful interview, it is necessary that we shed some light on the important traits of an organized job interview.

Structured Interviews

Some hiring teams allow their interviewers and panel to conduct interviews without any defined structure in mind. Interviewers are given the liberty to pace and take the interview forward in whatever direction they want. While this improvisational approach does feel natural, it does not help with consistency and unbiased measurements.

We advocate the use of structured interviews as an important job interview trait. Here’s how you can do this in practice; start by understanding and identifying the characteristics and skills of your employee. Next, ask questions that check and expose those characteristics and skills. Create a document containing a specific flow of questions. You can always mix and match the questions, but make sure that every candidate gets a level playing field.

Selecting the Right Interviewer

Without a proper process, organizations select interviewers based on their calendar availability instead of their actual skills in conducting interviews. You should make sure that the interviewers you select are actual experts in conducting interviews. Sometimes organizations select ‘easy’ interviewers because they quicken the process and weed out the intricacies.

To ensure that your process is scientific, we think you should have designated interviewers with skills to match their responsibilities.

Data Analysis

Once you have a structured process and a capable interviewer in place, you should go to the next important step of data analysis. The best way to do so is to track performance of new candidates for at least a couple of years and identify the answers and techniques used by high performing candidates.

Set the answers and techniques applied by those employees as your benchmark, and look for similar answers from your potential candidates in the future.

Knowing the top traits of an organized job interview process, we will now head to the right tips for conducting a job interview in our next article.

We at JS Benefits Group have worked with numerous clients to discuss the process of a successful job interview. You can get in touch with JS Benefits Group immediately to discuss and devise a strategy.