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Job Interviews Are Broken. There’s a Way to Fix Them.
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Job Interviews Are Broken. There’s a Way to Fix Them.

Instead of focusing on credentials, let’s give candidates the chance to showcase their will and skill to learn.

Adam Grant
The New York Times, 2020
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Often, job interviews are futile. Candidates fudge their answers and oversell their qualifications. Managers ask the wrong questions and subconsciously rely on biases. With expert insight and a sense of humor, organizational psychologist Adam Grant walks you through common roadblocks that keep you from hiring the perfect candidate. His examples will encourage you to rethink your job interview process, and build a creative and collaborative team.

Take-Aways

  • Improve job interviews at your company by asking candidates about behavior rather than timeworn questions with easily feigned answers.
  • Structured interviews can cut down the effects of implicit biases in your hiring process.
  • Request a work sample to focus on the quality of someone’s work, rather than how smooth of a talker they are.

About the Author

Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and the best-selling author of Originals, a book about nonconformist thinking.

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