Interview question

[Archie_tect]

[QUOTE 2995471, member: 1314"]... of course, I'm playing the working class London accent thing as my excuse for not talking clearly here, as apart from the 9 Scots they all speak with RP. Well, apart from the 5 Northerners, the 2 Welsh, the scattered Aussies/Kiwis, the German, the Ugandan, the Portugese, the South African, the American and the Ghanaian.

... I'm also going to ask them 2 other questions.

How would you source the best curry-house in London. ASK YOU...

Would you prefer to live North or South of the river. (Only one answer is right.) HOUSEBOAT [/QUOTE]
Next....

 

[sazzaa]

.....although Crockers did say he wanted a people person

Mind you I think what he really wants is a new drinking buddy

Well that's easier, just choose the one you click most with, fark everything else.

 

[sazzaa]

So living on a house boat on the Thames would rule a person out, then

House boat screams "quirky" middle class. Good drinking material.

 

[4F]

Hope this helps

 

[PK99]

[QUOTE 2995400, member: 1314"]If one is wanting to find out whether a person is a "people person" though they are being interviewed for a role that requires proof-reading skills, what should one ask?[/QUOTE]

I a Comperency Based process, ask them to describe a situation relevant to the skills you want:
http://www.interview-skills.co.uk/competency-based-interviews-questions.aspx

 

[Archie_tect]

Nobody supports Chelsea...people pay to be seen there... trick question.

 

[IDMark2]

Of course, it would be helpful if you were a 'people person' yourself...

 

[IDMark2]

I a Comperency Based process

What he say?

 

[theclaud]

I'm not a people person but I can fake it brilliantly when I want to... I doubt anything you ask in interview will tell you the answer.

Oodathortit?!

 

[Fnaar]

Ask them (via email)
Our yuo a Peeperl PeRsan?
If they send it back corrected, Bob's yer uncle!!!

 

[Wobblers]

[QUOTE 2995471, member: 1314"]
How would you source the best curry-house in London.
[/QUOTE]

Just what the **** does that mean??? "Source" a curry house? It's not like a river, you know....

Would you prefer to live North or South of the river. (Only one answer is right.)

Absolutely. Scotland.

 

[theclaud]

[QUOTE 2995548, member: 1314"]Well, interviews aren't a scientific process. I've tried all sorts of approaches.

However we have a very small team of which the new bod will be the 5th member, have to work very closely together, and the probation period is 6 months. That 6 months will be more than long enough to suss them out.[/QUOTE]

Wouldn't mind having a chat about that over a pint. We've just managed to appoint someone who we know isn't a ****, because we have worked with her before, but the move towards interview processes that are designed to reduce unfairness has previously led to us appointing someone who was a major disaster, because we were obliged to abide by the scoring system we had designed. which hadn't left room for the "this person has ticks all the right boxes but might just be a ****" factor. Someone awful in an important position can wreak havoc on a small company. I thought about leaving, but luckily she left first.

Hence the cafe suggestion. The trick is to be assessing something different than the person thinks you are assessing - so you'd take them to a cafe and ask them a complex question, but not be assessing the answer to the question at all - only their attitude towards the staff...

 

[Beebo]

[QUOTE 2995548, member: 1314"] That 6 months will be more than long enough to suss them out.[/QUOTE]
Dont use the 6 month probation as a tool to find the right person, you will just have to go through the whole interview process again.
Use the interview to get the right person, I've had jobs with 3 rounds of interviews, each time meeting 2 different people, so by the end of the process I have met 6 of the team, that way the team will pick the person that will fit best.
The 6 month probation is there just in case you pick some sort of bunny boiler type.

 

[Fnaar]

[QUOTE 2995548, member: 1314"]Well, interviews aren't a scientific process. I've tried all sorts of approaches.

However we have a very small team of which the new bod will be the 5th member, have to work very closely together, and the probation period is 6 months. That 6 months will be more than long enough to suss them out.[/QUOTE]
You don't need six months... say "Would you like to be the fifth 'member' of our team?", using your fingers for inverted commas for 'member'. Snigger as you say the word member. If you like childish humour, employ them if the snigger too. If you don't, then don't employ them if they do snigger. Or the other way round. Simples

 

[nickyboy]

A favourite question I ask at interview is "give me three adjectives to describe yourself". When they have done this, I then ask them "what three adjectives would your friends use to describe you".

Invariably they are different. Then you have a discussion with them why their friends' perception of them differs from their own.

Tends to draw out some personality traits without a full blown profiling (which people have some ability to manipulate anyway)