Carried out successfully an interview is an incredibly powerful tool capable not only allowing employers to assess those more common aspects of a candidate’s resume, but, with a bit of proper understanding, also allowing employers to pick up on a candidate’s attitude, insecurities, and an array of other faults that would be far better to learn about now than several months down the line when a bad hire has to be let go. To help employers learn to assess candidates for these flaws, here is the conclusion to the executive search firm list of ten early warning signs that should be looked for in the interview process.
6. No Obvious Research Into the Company
When a candidate shows that they have failed to do any research into the company they are interviewing with, showing no knowledge of that company’s products and services, or customer base, what they are essentially demonstrating is their lack of any real interest. Should a candidate display such a clear lack of interest, then the interview should do the same in return as quality candidates will, at the very least, have explored the company’s website to pick up some of the most basic information relevant to the job which they are applying for.
7. The Treatment of Various Level Employees
To be truly thorough, employers should conduct multiple interviews with a candidate having various current employees participate. Not only does this allow employers to more fully assess a candidate’s qualifications and cultural compatibility, but this can also allow interviewers to see how a candidate will treat employees of various levels and authority. Candidates who fail to show the proper respect to lower level or equal employees should be immediately discarded.
8. Cannot Support Claims Made on Their Resumes
While employers should always conduct thorough background checks on all candidates before any decisions are made, some of this information can be uncovered and assessed during the interview process itself. Here employers will need to come up with questions which target the candidate’s past experiences in order to assess their truth based on the plausibility of the candidate’s responses.
9. Show Up Late
One of the biggest and most obvious warning signs a candidate can display is to show up late to their own interview. For starters this demonstrates not only a lack of respect for the interviewer but an inability to successfully manage time as well, both issues that should immediately alert the interviewer to unsatisfactory nature of the candidate.
10.0 Failure to Take Responsibility for Their Actions
Finally, one of those most common questions that interviewers like to ask is about a time in which the candidate was responsible for some problem that occurred and how they handled the situation. However, candidates who fail to accept responsibility for the things that go wrong around them, blaming instead circumstances, resources, coworkers, etc., should set off an immediate red flag to interviewers.
The executive search and hiring process in an exhaustive one and something that companies should actively seek to avoid by ensuring that the employees they hire are the right ones for the job the first time around, and having the knowledge to more fully assess a candidate’s suitability is essential in this objective.
Published by Conselium Executive Search, the global leader in compliance search.
