Typewriter interview with Chase Jarvis
During interviews, I try to create a stillness that helps separate signal from noise, elephants from riders. The easiest way to create conditions of stillness is to talk very little. It also helps to have the candidate you’re trying to see clearly ask you questions. Questions have very high signal value compared to most anything else you can get fr... See more
grahamduncan.blog • What's Going on Here, With This Human? - Graham Duncan Blog
Good interviewers are simply themselves. They’re not acting. They’re curious. They know how to be quiet and listen. The authentic ones who ask good questions are the ones who extract profound answers instead of clichés, and who get past the surface and into something that rarely gets explored.
Dean Nelson • Talk to Me: How to Ask Better Questions, Get Better Answers, and Interview Anyone Like a Pro
Here’s a sample script: “In what context did you work with the person?” “What were the person’s biggest strengths?” Get curious by using the “What? How? Tell me more” framework. “What were the person’s biggest areas for improvement back then?” It is very important to say back then.
Alex MacCaw • The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
that’s what an interview is: a purposeful series of questions that leads to understanding, insight, and perspective on a given topic. What these people do next depends on the quality of the answers they get. And the quality of those answers has a lot to do with the quality of the questions.
Dean Nelson • Talk to Me: How to Ask Better Questions, Get Better Answers, and Interview Anyone Like a Pro
A key way this differs from other types of interviews is that it’s more observational, with the person driving the flow. Most of the session is spent listening to their narration and asking things like, “Is that what you expected to happen?” and “Can you tell me more about why you’d want it to do that/why you thought it would do that?”