From the course: Performance-Based Hiring
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Conducting the work history review
From the course: Performance-Based Hiring
Conducting the work history review
- More can be learned about a candidate in a 20 to 30 minute work history review than at any other time in an interview. Here are the big things you can learn. Is the person a good fit for your job? Does the person fit with your culture? Is the person at top third of his or her peer group? Collectively this will tell you if you're interviewing a strong candidate or a weak one. Given this insight, here's how to conduct a work history review. Start by going through the person's background in chronological order, starting with the most recent position. For each job within a company, get the title, the role they played on the teams and the types of projects the person worked on. I look for comparable results to determine job fit. You can get a quick sense of this by comparing the person's scope of responsibility and the impact they made. Then ask about the culture and get into the manager's leadership style. Focus on how this impacted the…
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