I wish I could be amazed but the stupidity (and even more so dangerous) examples of interview questions continues. According to an article in the WSJ (6/2/09), here are two more: 1) How would you react to sexual advances from your boss's gay son at an office party? 2) Tell me something you do with your eyes, your arms and your legs at the same time.
Because I'm such a firm believer in "performance-based" interviewing, which is clearly behaviorally based but at a very different level, one of the things that concerns me here is that too many people have decided that anything close to "tell me about a time..." is a good question because it therefore "behavior." WRONG! I don't see how either of these questions could be justified as even closely job-related. The gay son at an office party question could be an extremely dangerous question.
Comment: Dumb, dumber, dumbest -- There are great companies out there doing a fantastic job of interviewing candidates. Unfortunately, there are the rest...
Monday, June 08, 2009
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