Employee Engagement For Dummies

Chapter 13

Why Do You Want to Work Here? Interviewing Job Candidates

In This Chapter

Considering a candidate's behaviors, education, skills, and traits

Developing effective interview questions

Knowing what to do with the candidate's responses

You've pinpointed your employee value proposition (EVP) and created your “sales sheet,” outlining why you rock as an employer (see Chapter 10). You've built your BEST profile (see Chapter 12). You've leveraged social media as a branding and staffing tool (see Chapter 12). Now it's time to interview the bevy of candidates who are sure to come your way. This chapter discusses the interviewing process and how you can tweak it to hire only the most engaged employees.

Best in Show: Interviewing the BEST Way

In the preceding chapter, I introduce you to the BEST approach to hiring candidates. This approach goes beyond evaluating a candidate's skills and education to also consider his behaviors and traits (hence, the acronym BEST). If you opt to use the BEST approach to hiring, you'll need to adapt your interview process accordingly. In this section, I show you how.

Step 1: Develop your BEST profile

In Chapter 12, you develop a job description that ...