How To Do A Phone Screen Interview - Part 4

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Mike Auzenne

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🗓️ 10 January 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Part 4 of our guidance on phone screen interviews. Before you bring a hiring candidate for a full day of interviews, phone screen your potential candidates to narrow the field even further. Here's how.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mandertools.
0:02.0	How to do a phone screen interview.
0:05.0	Part 4. Here we go.
0:07.0	Okay.
0:09.0	Going back to the point about they're prepared for it or they least know it's coming.
0:13.1	Even though our purpose is to say no,
0:15.7	we don't want to be capricious, right?
0:17.4	We don't want to say no to hiring a great engineer
0:20.1	because he can't ride a unicycle for instance.
0:23.0	Interviews are an artificial reality,
0:26.0	but a good interviewer, an effective interviewer,
0:29.0	uses an interview in a professional way.
0:31.0	Again, we don't need to elevate stress intentionally, we don't need to play tricks,
0:35.2	we don't need to ask the hardest questions first. All of our data showed those techniques
0:40.7	don't help us. They don't predict well.
0:43.5	That's the point of interviewing is predicting well.
0:47.2	And all that said, tell me about yourself does something that only behavioral interviews do close to as well.
0:56.6	Tell me about yourself creates numerous opportunities for probing
1:00.9	about the two things that will make the biggest difference in
1:05.0	this candidate's success or failure with your firm and that is how and why
1:10.1	they make the decisions they make and the behaviors they engage in around those decisions.
1:16.8	Decisions and behaviors, and in fact decisions are a subset of behaviors, but people don't think
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