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High-Impact Interview Questions: 701 Behavior-Based Questions to Find the Right Person for Every Job

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Selecting the right person for a job is both an art and a science. To help you improve your chances of finding the right person, author Victoria A. Hoevemeyer proposes that human resource departments and hiring managers should ask applicants explicit questions about their skills and behavior. This approach, known as "Competency-Based Behavioral Interviewing" (CBBI), provides a clear picture of what candidates actually did in their previous jobs. Hoevemeyer's sensible idea is that if candidates succeeded at certain tasks before, they'll repeat their success in their new jobs. She provides a very long list of detailed questions that hiring managers can use to learn the specifics of candidates' skills and past performance. However, the book lacks proof that the CBBI process actually results in recruiting new hires who perform well and have better retention rates. Still, since Hoevemeyer's approach clearly elicits rich information, we believe that managers and even experienced HR professionals may find her interviewing tactics useful.

This book is easy to pick up and understand what behavioral interviewing is all about. For someone that is at the other end of the interview process (the interviewee) this book helped to better prepare me for the interview process in this day and age. Interviews no longer entail just talking about your experience. A potential employer needs more information about a person in a short period of time. By reading "High-Impact Interview Questions" I feel more confident knowing what a potential employer could be looking for and what kind of quetions they may be asking. For the price, this book is well worth it!

"High-Impact Interview Questions" will save you both time and effort in the interview process. It provides hundreds of interview questions that you can tailor to your organization. By asking questions that focus on the candidate's actual performance, you will increase the likelihood that the people you hire will be a good fit for the position and the organization. This book is a great resource for the new interviewer as well as the seasoned HR professional.

Great explanation of the rationale behind behavior based interviewing. Guides the interviewer through the process of developing questions and evaluation procedures. Interview process is focused, to obtain more accurate and relevant information from candidates.

Well written from start to finish - I couldn't wait to adapt these questions into my interview process. The author does an excellent job informing you how these questions can help see the true candidate. I thought I was confident in my skills before I read this book - I cannot put into words how much I have grown since I finished this book - and implemented behavior-based questions. Highly recommend to any recruiter at any level.

The book is only a collection of questions that you can easily find online without paying for them. The writer doesn't give any insight into the correct answers or key points. In my opinion this book is not worth buying it.

If I had to recommend one book for anyone who is involved in interviewing candidates, "High-Impact Interview Questions" would be it! It is a practical, thorough, easy-to-use resource and reference guide for behavioral interviewing. The added bonus is that it's organized according to competencies, making it incredibly simply to use in conjunction with an organization's current competency models.

It's great for converting to behavioral based interviewing, enhancing your current behavioral interview process, or even simply testing behavioral interviewing out by converting some of your current interview questions to behavioral questions.

There is no doubt in my mind that if interviewers use the information and tools in this book that they will absolutely find the right person for every job!

Great questions to use as is, or to modify to meet your needs. Also really helpful is the list of follow up questions.

I usually often fall in some all traditional interview questions, taht came up sometime might not even relevant with topic we need to know from a candidate.

Behavioral interview questions had been introduced quite some years ago, but without asking the precisely correct question, sometimes candidate fall on answering worngly, causing me captured wrong preception of that person, which cost on recruitment process.

Author had make me much more easy on how to ask precise Behavioral based question, and some thecning of probing to help us the dig deeper of candidate answer, and found it very useful to understand one person during the interview process.

this is a decent overview of a very solid approach to interviewing. i am a big fan of pursuing a line of questioning into its details. i think this is a helpful tool for anyone involved in hiring.