Talent

As you present your questions and listen to the candidate’s stories in response, note whether the interviewee uses unusual expressions, seems to be coining their own phrases, explains basic concepts in a way different from what you might hear in the mainstream, speaks as if they are developing useful memes, has unusual rhythmic patterns to their sp

“How do you think this interview is going?”

“We have all committed mistakes in the workplace, as have I. What is an example of a mistake you have committed but did not come to regret for a long time?”

So if you ask a woman this question, the answer you receive may well be affected by some measure of social inhibition in addition to a sense of ambition, and that may render the answer correspondingly noisier in terms of information. Be aware of this potential distortion. The same problem may exist with some minority and immigrant groups, again, a

suddenly the question now was rewarding a perverse kind of conformity—conformity to the proper level of contrarianism—rather than the true contrarianism it was supposed to ferret out.

One common element in the confessional and therapeutic settings is that a lack of eye-to-eye contact can be used to stimulate or ease confession, or at least an opening up.

creative ways to take the candidate out of interview mode and into their everyday self. This is important, because the everyday self is what you’ll get if you hire them.

Daniel recalls that he first learned from Tyler this question for prospective hires: “What is it you do to practice that is analogous to how a pianist practices scales?”

In that same data set, if you are considering what does explain who becomes a doctor or a lawyer, parental education (and not IQ) is the main explanatory variable, accounting for 39 and 52 percent of those career decisions, respectively.