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Never Rank Candidates.

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This cast answers these questions.

Should I rank candidates as I interview them?

Should I have my staff rank candidates as they are interviewed. What do I do if my

number one candidate isn't interviewing well? Well if you want answers to these

questions and more keep listening.

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I think folks are going to be surprised for a lot of managers,

unless you've been listening to us a very long time,

because we've been doing us a very long time now, I think we're surprised when we tell them not to rank candidates as they're interviewing them, right, individually or collectively.

Yeah. And the fact that it just completely biases the whole hiring process.

Yeah, it's really common to rank candidates.

It is probably the conversation I hear the most when I'm talking to clients who are

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