6. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
Objectivity and Consistency Leading To Better Hiring Decisions

A TOOL FOR THE INTERVIEW - Keeping in mind that the Hire Success System's main goal is to provide you with a TOOL to help you conduct better, more in-depth interviews.  We believe if you use these tools effectively, better interviews will lead to better hiring decisions, more productive and satisfied employees and lower turnover for your company.  Hire Success is NOT a "psychological instrument" designed to probe the hidden inner working of an Applicant's mind and personality.  Our customers generally are not looking for that type of information.

Instead, Hire Success tries to help you easily discover and confirm the unique qualities and characteristics of an Applicant and avoid potential problems by uncovering possible conflicts early, before you make a hiring decision.  Hire Success does NOT make any hiring recommendations nor does anyone "pass" or "fail" the Personality Test.  It is simply a tool for YOU to use to conduct a more in-depth interview and interview all candidates objectively and consistently.

BENEFITS:

• Provides A Simple, Cost Effective Tool for Conducting a More In-Depth Interview
• Helps maintain OBJECTIVITY by evaluating all Applicants on the same Criteria
• Helps keep Interviews on-track and maintains Consistency between interviews.
• Assists in making final hiring/promotion decisions based on consistent and comparable information.

 WHY INTERVIEW QUESTIONS ARE PROVIDED - Many of our customers are small to medium sized companies who either do not have an Human Resources Department, or if they do, have managers and executives involved in the final hiring decision.  Generally, these business owners, executives and managers have primary responsibilities in other areas that are totally unrelated to selecting and developing employees.  Often, the person being interviewed has had MORE EXPERIENCE in recent interviews than the person interviewing them!

Hire Success helps level the playing field by not only providing a more objective and consistent selection environment, but helps the Interviewer ask questions about job specific topics that the Applicant probably never heard before and didn't have a "prepared" answer.  This helps open dialog and give the Interview a better opportunity to get to "know" the Applicant much better, and thus be able to make a better hiring decision regarding the Applicant.

BENEFITS:

• Helps business owners, executives and managers conduct more consistent and in-depth interviews.
• Helps keep the focus on the Applicant and how they may interface with the Company, its customer and other employees.
• Questions are designed to help open up the Interview conversation and help the Interviewer become more knowledgeable about the Applicant in a short period of time.

 HOW THE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS ARE DETERMINED - The criteria the Hire Success System  uses for generating Sample Interview Questions are:

• Any time a Trait Scale is "Extreme" toward one side of the scale of the other.  In other words, if the Applicant scores a "1" or "2" (out of 9) toward the left side of a Scale, or scores an "8" or "9" toward the right side of the Trait Scale.
• Any time the Trait Confidence Factor is 1 or 2 "stars" regardless of the position of the Trait Scale.

Although it is not unusual for people to have "extreme" Traits toward one side of the scale or the other, the questions are provided so you can VERIFY the accuracy of the Trait information.  We know that if a person tends to try and sway test or try to be what they "think" you want them to be, they generally tend to overemphasize a particular trait and thus could artificially drive a result higher toward one side or another.  This gives you the opportunity to ask questions and verify they really do possess the Trait or Traits you are looking for and sort out any "hype" of traits they may be overstating.

Likewise, it is not unusual to see some Lower Confidence Factors on a "normal" test where the Applicant has been 100% truthful answering the questions.  Some Traits are just "situational" for many people and when they answer honestly, the System sees their tendency to describe themselves as possessing traits at opposite ends of the scale.  Having Interview Questions to help probe these areas allow you to find out under what job related circumstances they may tend to exhibit the different Traits.  If that is beneficial for your company and the job for which they have applied, then you have even more confidence in your hiring decision.

However, if someone was trying to "sway" the test or trying to be "everything to everybody", you will also have the opportunity to discover this in the Interview as well.  Our customers have told us over the years that this is the type of information they wish they had discovered before they made some bad hiring decision and is why the Hire Success system includes these questions to help YOU make better hiring decisions.

BENEFITS:

• Questions are simple and to the point.
• Questions are developed specifically based on the Trait results for this Applicant and not just "general" questions based on general personality traits like some tests on the market.
• Helps you sort out people who may have tried to sway the test.
• Helps verify key Traits during the Interview process.
• Helps minimize "surprises" after a hiring decision is made.

 INTERVIEW QUESTIONS WHEN THERE ARE NO INTERVIEW QUESTIONS - Although somewhat rare, there is an occasional report where the Applicant has all high Confidence Factors and no Extreme Traits to trigger the Sample Interview Questions.  The newest release of Hire Success addresses this issue by generating questions to ask when nothing else triggers questions.  This can happen when a person seems them self as a very "moderate" in all ways.  Sort of the opposite of the person trying to be "everything to everybody", this person may be holding back and not wanting to tell you much at all about themselves and doesn't want their answers to stand out.

Although there are people like that, it does trigger Interview Questions to assist you in determining if they are truly a "moderate" person in all aspects of their personality or if they are trying to hide their true personality.  Either way, it is important that you have an opportunity to verify this information during the Interview, so basically, nobody avoids Interview Questions from the Hire Success System.

BENEFITS:

• Interview Questions are always available to assist the Interviewer.
• Applicants who may try to avoid disclosing much about themselves are asked questions to give the Interviewer more insight before making a hiring decision.

 QUESTIONS & LOGIC TAILORED TO EACH INDIVIDUAL - The Hire Success System uses an elaborate library of HTML formatted questions to construct questions for each Applicant.  Each paragraph can evaluate and compare various Trait information, Personality Types and strengths and choose from the Library the appropriate questions and comments to help the Interviewer ask specific questions.

Hire Success goes beyond just listing sample questions to ask, it also explains why the Interviewer may want to ask the question, how they might develop the conversation further and provides insight into why the question is being asked.  Where some older systems on the market just throw out a list of general questions, Hire Success helps you understand why you may want to inquire about these areas and is truly a useful tool for the Interviewer.

BENEFITS:

• Interviewers know the reasoning behind each question.
• Questions help uncover key issues that may have otherwise been overlooked.
• Sample Questions are SPECIFIC to that Applicant
• Assist Interviewer in developing more in-depth questions of their own.

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