{"id":1533,"date":"2008-04-25T07:55:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T12:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/interview-questions-for-gen-y\/"},"modified":"2008-04-24T17:57:32","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T22:57:32","slug":"interview-questions-for-gen-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/interview-questions-for-gen-y\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Questions For Gen Y"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From CollegeRecruiter.com&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.collegerecruiter.com\/weblog\/2008\/04\/sample_intervie_1.php\">Sample Interview Questions for Those Hiring Millennials<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>William recommends that interviewers &#8220;incorporate more personal questions that expose a candidate&#8217;s personality, work ethic, and personal motivations&#8221; because &#8220;how a person approaches life is often indicative of how they&#8217;d approach work.&#8221; He therefore recommends rephrasing typical interview questions in a way that they better apply to the personal lives of your candidates. Sample interview questions in this area include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do you primarily communicate with friends? How often?<\/li>\n<li>When you have a dilemma to solve, how do you approach it?<\/li>\n<li>How do you spend your free time? (Do you prefer doing activities solo, with friends, or in groups?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Excellent advice for interviewing a Gen Y candidate.\u00a0 The questions will lead to revealing insight into the candidate.\u00a0 The secondary benefit that now you appear to be speaking their language which is valuable in itself.<\/p>\n<p>If you were to tie these questions to an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Assessing_Main.html\">assessment<\/a>, you would have an in-depth view of this candidate like you have never seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CollegeRecruiter.com&#8217;s Sample Interview Questions for Those Hiring Millennials: William recommends that interviewers &#8220;incorporate more personal questions that expose a candidate&#8217;s personality, work ethic, and personal motivations&#8221; because &#8220;how a person approaches life is often indicative of how they&#8217;d approach work.&#8221; He therefore recommends rephrasing typical interview questions in a way that they better apply to the personal lives of your candidates. Sample interview questions in this area include: How do you primarily communicate with friends? How often? When you have a dilemma to solve, how do you approach it? How do you spend your free time? (Do you prefer doing activities solo, with friends, or in groups?) Excellent advice&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/interview-questions-for-gen-y\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,10],"tags":[585,586,584],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generations","category-interview","tag-gen-y-interview-questions","tag-interview-questions","tag-interviewing-gen-y"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-oJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1793,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/11\/are-you-really-running-a-behavioral-based-interview\/","url_meta":{"origin":1533,"position":0},"title":"Are You Really Running A Behavioral-Based Interview?","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Behavioral-based interviewing has been the buzz in hiring for the past few years and rightly so.\u00a0 This technique brings real-world clarity to a sales interview as opposed to theoretical, positional answers.\u00a0 Selling Power provides a good article to assist you in your interview strategy. 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