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Ending A Bad Interview - Part 1

Manager Tools

Mike Auzenne

Management, Leadership, Strategy, Feedback, How-to, Skills, Advice, Development, Careers, Coaching, Business

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2011

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This guidance describes when and how to end an interview with a candidate you won't hire.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic, ending a bad interview. Part one. Here we go. This is one of the things that managers find so incredibly difficult and it doesn't need to be

0:30.8

but right people find it hard so we do plenty of work to screen

0:34.4

candidates but yet there are still times when candidates fail to meet our

0:39.0

standards and look at if you said yes to everyone, you wouldn't be a good interviewer, right?

0:44.6

We said many times the purpose of interviewing is to say no, is to find reasons to say no.

0:50.4

So you can't say yes every time. And be clear though here there is no way to be so good at screening

0:56.4

That the interview is just a formality. Do you think there managers out there that think that I think so?

1:05.6

Ah, right. Ah, yeah, I definitely think so. I think people think that some screen has been done by HR and there's been a phone screen and

1:10.7

so I like this guy 20 minutes into the interview you know why work any

1:15.0

harder than this I'll hire yeah yeah so you know we could be 90% through it

1:20.4

we could be 50% through the interview and we just know the person failed.

1:27.0

Right. I'm not pretty sure about but we know that this is someone who is not

1:32.1

going to get hired.

1:34.4

Yeah, we've decided we're not going to hire them.

1:36.9

Yeah.

1:37.9

Do we go through the rest of the interview and be polite which is what a lot of managers do?

1:41.6

Um, what do we do?

1:43.5

No, no, no, no, no.

1:45.8

This is manager tools.

1:46.8

We answer those kind of questions.

1:48.0

Here we go.

1:49.0

The first thing is, stop interviewing,

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