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Roger Hilton
Roger Hilton

With over 20 years experience as a successful Executive Recruitment Consultant, Roger has consulted with a number of large and small organisations throughout broad areas of industry and commerce.
Roger Hilton

From Both Sides of the Desk
From Both Sides of The Desk

From Both Sides of the Desk will significantly enhance your knowledge of the employment process.

'From Both Sides of the Desk'

ISSUE NO 1 - FEBRUARY 2004

Ask and you shall receive!

The questions you ask at interview and subsequent responses (and interpretation), will be crucial in sourcing the right person for the role! When you undertake a recruitment program, the questions that you ask at interview (and indeed the way that you ask them), are invaluable in ensuring you make the right recruitment decision. The following questions are just a few that I have drawn from From Both Sides of the Desk.

Please feel free to use all or a combination of them when you next interview applicants, I can assure you that they work.

SUGGESTED INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

  • How would you describe yourself? (Not in terms of business strengths/weaknesses, but more in terms of personal traits, characteristics etc)

  • What do you consider your business strengths to be?

  • What do you consider your limitations to be? And what are you doing to address them?

  • What are your chief motivators?

  • What are you most proud of having done (best achievement, personal or business)

  • Under which management style do you operate the most effectively? Why?

  • How would you describe your management style?

  • Provide a recent example which demonstrates your ability, success and achievement in. (content relevant to position in hand) *

  • What does team-work mean to you? Provide an example that demonstrates your understanding of it. *

  • Do you make your opinions known when you disagree with the opinion of your Manager? Can you give an example? *

  • What do you believe are the personal characteristics necessary for success in your field? *

  • What aspects of your current/last position do you enjoy the most?

  • What aspects of current/last position do you enjoy the least?

  • Describe a recent situation that demonstrates your initiative *

  • What can you bring to this position?

  • What interests you in joining our company?

  • Denotes behavioural-based questions

* Behavourial Questions

- A Recruitment Thought for the Month -

'Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being'

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

'From Both Sides of the Desk' - written by Roger W Hilton and Les Brandis in a unique style, that allows both the employer andjob seeker to simultaneously look over each others shoulder - allowing each to better understand the motives and strategies of the other ... read more >>>

Roger W Hilton
Principal
Hilton Consulting Group P/L
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