Interview Prospective Employees

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”

—Zig Ziglar

In This Chapter

  • Focus exclusively on the key dynamic of the manager meeting with and talking to the applicant.

Job interviews are so nerve-racking that they’ve become the subject of humorous skits and parodies. The spoofs go to extremes in portraying awkward applicants struggling with outrageous interview questions. Part of what makes the subject so funny is the truth within the satire: Interviewing can be stressful on either side of the desk.

A lot is riding on the interview process; for one party, it’s a gateway to employment and ...

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