Stepping Back to the Big Picture
The bottom line is that a big part of the reason these three types of questions continue to dominate organizations is that most managers, when they are asked, are not shy about telling you what good interviewers they are. They say that they have a good “gut reaction” to the answers that candidates provide; they “know in their gut” when someone is “being straight with them.” I even had one executive in a service organization tell me (with a straight face) that all she needed to do was look at what the person was doing in the lobby and be able to tell if they were going to work out or not.
Many hiring managers will swear that they get incredible insights into a person when they know things like what the candidate ...
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