{"id":396,"date":"2006-10-26T13:38:18","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T18:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=396"},"modified":"2006-10-26T13:38:42","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T18:38:42","slug":"the-working-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/the-working-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"The Working Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this article in Monster&#8217;s resource for candidates &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/interview.monster.com\/articles\/working-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Work the Working Interview<\/a>. The article has three main points:  How the working interview helps employers evaluate you, Show your stuff and Ace the working interview. Basically, the article provides tips for candidates on how to perform well in a working interview.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Morel, President &#038; CEO of Pro Staff, is quoted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It helps employers evaluate <a href=\"http:\/\/content.monstertrak.monster.com\/resources\/archive\/jobhunt\/softskills\/\" target=\"_blank\">soft skills<\/a>, like commitment, loyalty and work ethic, plus it shows attitude and abilities in real time,&#8221; he explains. Employers can also evaluate whether a candidate&#8217;s personality will be a good fit with the staff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Monster provides a link for candidates to evaluate their soft skills and then gives them resources to improve those skills. I hope that employers put as much into the interview process as candidates do.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to understand what is required of the job and develop interview questions that will provide a picture of the candidate in terms of these requirements. It is just as important to understand what factors are extremely difficult to determine through questioning. For instance, a candidate&#8217;s commitment, loyalty or work ethic are difficult to ascertain using just a working interview. However, candidates can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Assessing_Main.html\" target=\"_blank\">objectively measured through our assessments<\/a>.  May I be so bold as to suggest measuring these specific, job-related skills first and <em>then<\/em> observing the candidates in a working interview format?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this article in Monster&#8217;s resource for candidates &#8211; Work the Working Interview. The article has three main points: How the working interview helps employers evaluate you, Show your stuff and Ace the working interview. Basically, the article provides tips for candidates on how to perform well in a working interview. Stephen Morel, President &#038; CEO of Pro Staff, is quoted: It helps employers evaluate soft skills, like commitment, loyalty and work ethic, plus it shows attitude and abilities in real time,&#8221; he explains. Employers can also evaluate whether a candidate&#8217;s personality will be a good fit with the staff. Monster provides a link for candidates to evaluate&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/the-working-interview\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,16,10,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-6o","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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