{"id":627,"date":"2007-02-02T10:50:29","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T16:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/02\/how-interviewers-affect-candidate-decisions\/"},"modified":"2007-02-02T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T16:50:10","slug":"how-interviewers-affect-candidate-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/02\/how-interviewers-affect-candidate-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"How Interviewers Affect Candidate Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I attended a Webinar from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monster.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monster<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ddi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DDI<\/a> titled, &#8220;Thanks, But No Thanks: Keeping Top Prospects From Turning Down Your Offer&#8221; that not only echoed many of the points from this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sellingpower.com\/html_newsletter\/article.asp?NLid=10&#038;Layout_ID=604&#038;ARTid=2765&#038;nDate=January+16%2C+2007\" target=\"_blank\">Selling Power article<\/a>, but had the data to support it. There were numerous points that I wanted to share with you so I&#8217;ll post on them in bite-size pieces over the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>In our <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/the-top-5-1-reasons-why-candidates-say-no\/\" target=\"_blank\">previous post<\/a>, point #4 talks about trust. A candidate forms their opinion about trust in 3 areas with the interviewer being the first mentioned. I&#8217;m sure some of you thought that may have been a bit far-fetched but take a look at the research behind Monster &#038; DDI&#8217;s report. They found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>32% of the candidate&#8217;s say that the interviewer affects their decision <strong>&#8220;a lot&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>33% said that it affected their decision moderately<\/li>\n<li>26% said slightly<\/li>\n<li>9% said that it didn&#8217;t affect their decision at all<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So how are you being perceived by your candidates? Is their anything you should be changing? Here are the top 5 habits candidates find annoying:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Acting like you have no time for the interview.<\/li>\n<li>Withholding information about the position.<\/li>\n<li>Turning the interview into a cross-examination.<\/li>\n<li>Showing up late.<\/li>\n<li>Being unprepared for the interview.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Also asking inappropriate or strange questions made the list.  Here are some questions that made this list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you were on the Simpson&#8217;s, which Simpson character would you be?<\/li>\n<li>If you were a tree, what kind would you be?<\/li>\n<li>If you were a dog, what kind would you be?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s your relationship with God?<\/li>\n<li>Is that your natural hair color? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I attended a Webinar from Monster and DDI titled, &#8220;Thanks, But No Thanks: Keeping Top Prospects From Turning Down Your Offer&#8221; that not only echoed many of the points from this Selling Power article, but had the data to support it. There were numerous points that I wanted to share with you so I&#8217;ll post on them in bite-size pieces over the next few days. In our previous post, point #4 talks about trust. A candidate forms their opinion about trust in 3 areas with the interviewer being the first mentioned. I&#8217;m sure some of you thought that may have been a bit far-fetched but take a look at&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/02\/how-interviewers-affect-candidate-decisions\/\">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":[14,2,16,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-a7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627"}],"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=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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