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Finding Top Talent Using Behavioural Based Interviews

"I feel like the candidates I interview are so polished that it’s difficult to decide on who is the best fit for our role.”

Don’t worry you are completely normal.  In the job environment today candidates are very sophisticated and have often:

  • Sought the advice of professionals in writing their resumes and cover letters
  • Reviewed career portals for advice on interviewing
  • Been guided and advised by a career counselor
  • Role played interview scenarios

Obviously candidates want to give you the best impression they can.  As recruiters we’re charged with screening and interviewing candidates to ensure that the talent we bring into the organization is going to deliver on business objectives.  Finding and selecting talent that can build-on organizational capabilities is really what our role is all about.  The challenge is we have to find, screen, and assess the best candidates in a world where candidates are doing their best to accentuate and emphasize all their positives, and underplay and minimize all their possible limitations.  What we usually see in the interview is different to the person we normally see six months later, and in some cases we have to ask them to leave.     

"It would seem that candidates hold all the power in today’s job market.  With all these challenges are there any tools to assist recruiters?”   

A powerful tool that can help recruiters get behind the candidate’s interview mask is behavioural based interviews.  We’ve all heard that the best predictor of future performance is past performance. Behavioural based interviews allow you to control the interview and seek out the information you are most interested in, not the information your candidate is most interested in sharing.  Our assessment system at Thomas International has robust resources and reports to help you in the development and identification of suitable questions for behavioural interviewing.  Questions can be developed for each specific role, and even to target candidate’s potential limitations they have to the role.  Thomas International’s Assessment System and behavioural based interviews can be a powerful combination in:

  • Adding rigor and objectivity to the recruitment process
  • Reducing turnover levels
  • Focusing the interview process to save recruiters time
  • Selecting the best talent to build organizational capability

Interested in learning more about behavioural interviews and the Thomas International Assessment System for your business? We want to hear from you.

Interested in learning more about behavioural interviews and the Thomas International Assessment System for your business? We want to hear from you.

Our talent management tools can also help in the Orientation process

 

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View a sample of an individuals fit to a People Manager role and the appropiate Behavioural Interview Questions

 

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See how CDI used Thomas International's Assessment System to reduce turnover.

 
 

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