Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's cast, favorite candidate interview preparation part one.

In today's cast, we describe how to increase the chances that you will get to hire your favorite

candidate when he or she has to interview elsewhere in the organization.

Here we go. You know what's amazing to me is all the work that some managers do in terms of recruiting,

you know building a network and then recruiting top talent to their team.

They go through all the interviews and they love the candidate. It's a perfect fit, right?

I'm assuming here they've done their work, they've asked smart questions, they've really fully vetted the candidate.

They're ready to hire them and then their boss wants to interview the candidate.

Mm-hmm. And they just leave it completely to chance.

We'll just let this person that we really like,

we'll let them go in front of our boss.

We're not going to prep them and comes back and the boss says,

eh, not so much.

Not so much.

And you lost the opportunity,

because you know this person is the right person.

And who do we think they blame?

They blame the boss.

They're boss.

Yeah, they do.

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