Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a client‐centred, directive counselling method designed to strengthen personal motivation and commitment to a specific goal by eliciting and exploring an individual’s ...

One of the biggest mistakes you can make in an interview? Failing to answer a structured, behavioral question with a specific example. Unfortunately, it happens all too often. To understand how to ...

As more work has gone remote, so has candidate interviewing. In this environment, companies tend to lose sight of best interviewing practices. “Interviewers now tend to ask more superficial questions, ...

Behavioral interviews are now the standard in almost all hiring situations. From executives interviewing for C-suite positions to high school students looking for summer jobs, ...

Almost everyone who conducts interviews for hiring focuses on the wrong thing. What is that? The questions they will ask. This puts the focus on precisely the wrong person, the interviewer. It often ...

The 2020 update for my best-selling Ladders Interviews Guide is out now and available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle versions. I’ve included a brief excerpt below. This updated version is designed ...

Behavioral interviewing uses strategically composed questions to generate word pictures of how a candidate’s past performance supports a hiring company’s future needs. Focusing in on both hard and ...

As on-campus recruiting season hits top gear, potential law firm hires might not notice anything unusual about the questions they are asked, but the underlying goals of law firm interviewers have ...

Dear Recruiting … I’ve used behavioral interviewing. It seems to work pretty well, so long as the interviewer probes a bit. But maybe I’m peculiar. I figure that if an interviewee can make it up well ...

I've used behavioral interviewing. It seems to work pretty well, so long as the interviewer probes a bit. But maybe I'm peculiar. I figure that if an interviewee can make it up well enough, he/she ...