Interviewing for Positions

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Interviewing for Positions
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Why to consider the interview process carefully

• The interview is many applicants' first
  face-to-face exposure to the organization
• The interview often sets the tone for what the
  job itself will be like
• The form of the interview influences what you
  learn about the applicants

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Interviewing for positions

• Choose interviewers
• Choose interviewees
• Decide the levels of interviews
• Decide the length of interviews
• Decide what you will ask
• Know what not to ask
• Schedule the interviews
• Establish a comfortable atmosphere
• Decide how you will rate performance
• Decide who will do what
• Decide what information you will give

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Decide what the interview will entail

• After the interview
• Check references
• Offer the position to your first choice
• After a candidate accepts, call other
  interviewees
• Send a letter to those who weren't interviewed
• Send the new employee employment terms and
  (possibly) a contract