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The $100 MBA Show

MBA1279 How To Get The Best Out of An Interview Candidate

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Interviews can be tough...for the interviewer. There’s nothing more awkward than struggling to find out if the person you’re interviewing is right for the job. Even worse, passing on the perfect fit because you didn’t get the information you needed is just plain tragic. So how can you make sure to draw out the very best of what the candidate has to offer?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Heyo! Welcome to the $100 R.M. B. A show because when you grow so does your business.

0:14.0

That's why we deliver daily 10 minute business lessons for the real world.

0:18.0

I'm your host, your coach, your teacher Omar Zen Home.

0:21.0

I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business training and

0:25.3

community online. And in today's lesson you will learn how to get the best out of an interview

0:30.7

candidate. One of the worst things to experience during an interview is where you're sitting in front

0:36.8

of the candidate, whether you're online via video or in person, and you're just not getting

0:42.4

enough information.

0:43.4

It's like pulling teeth.

0:44.6

And at the end of the interview you're left with,

0:46.5

I don't have enough information to make a decision,

0:49.8

to actually say yes.

0:51.4

I'm not even sure if this person really wants this job.

0:54.3

There is a chance that this person is a good fit for your business and for the

0:58.2

position but are you gonna risk it? Do you know for sure? Well in today's

1:02.0

episode we're gonna talk about some of the things

1:03.8

that you can do to prepare your candidates to make sure you're getting the best version of them.

1:09.6

You're getting the performance that you can base your actual decision on.

1:14.6

Nicole and I do a lot of interviews for our business.

1:16.9

Even though we've grown, we still like to do the first interview.

1:20.9

It's like the cultural fit interview before we move on to a technical interview. It's like the cultural fit interview before we move on to a technical

1:24.2

interview where the manager in that department would do that interview. So I want to

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