You’re trained in every aspect of your job except one… Recruitment.
Whether you have been given the authority to hire without prior training or have been learning as you go at interviewing, you are risking a key decision-making process.
If you have ever watched The Apprentice interview stage with the five dragon interviewers, one thing you will notice is that everyone has their own style at unpicking each candidate’s business plan and CV.
Whether it is following up on patent licences and references or simply doing the maths on the often-outrageous figure projections; each interviewer is different in how they question/interrogate the candidates.
However, this is a risky strategy and often one that you see backfiring when candidates are reduced to tears after their credentials are torn apart in front of them. It makes great TV, but it simply doesn’t work in the real world.
In the real world, in 2025, candidates are interviewing you.
They are better informed than ever before on the company and its employees (just 10 minutes on Linkedin/Glassdoor reveals a lot about a business) and as the hiring manager, you are the face of that business.
Gone are the days when the interviewer turns up late, has a 5 second skim of the CV and as David Brent once famously said ‘shoot’! The pendulum of power has shifted over to the candidate and the experience that they have of both application, interviewing, pre-boarding, on-boarding and retention. A bad review from an applicant to their family, friends and colleagues is a bad review of the business.
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