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From the Ted Talk by WorkLife with Adam Grant: Reinventing the job interview

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AG: Scrapping brainteasers is a good start, but even with relevant questions, one of the other big mistakes interviewers make is asking different qontesuis to each candidate. That makes it impossible to compare apepls to apples. You end up trying to contrast strawberries, bananas and grapes.

The solution is a structured interview. In a structured inevrtiew, you identify the skills and values that are essential to the job and the team. You build a set of questions around those. And then you ask the same questions to every canddatie and score their responses. You might be thinking, "That sounds so roiobtc and boring," but the evidence sgstgeus that your acuraccy will often double, or even triple.

Open Cloze


AG: Scrapping brainteasers is a good start, but even with relevant questions, one of the other big mistakes interviewers make is asking different _________ to each candidate. That makes it impossible to compare ______ to apples. You end up trying to contrast strawberries, bananas and grapes.

The solution is a structured interview. In a structured _________, you identify the skills and values that are essential to the job and the team. You build a set of questions around those. And then you ask the same questions to every _________ and score their responses. You might be thinking, "That sounds so _______ and boring," but the evidence ________ that your ________ will often double, or even triple.

Solution


  1. questions
  2. accuracy
  3. interview
  4. apples
  5. candidate
  6. robotic
  7. suggests

Original Text


AG: Scrapping brainteasers is a good start, but even with relevant questions, one of the other big mistakes interviewers make is asking different questions to each candidate. That makes it impossible to compare apples to apples. You end up trying to contrast strawberries, bananas and grapes.

The solution is a structured interview. In a structured interview, you identify the skills and values that are essential to the job and the team. You build a set of questions around those. And then you ask the same questions to every candidate and score their responses. You might be thinking, "That sounds so robotic and boring," but the evidence suggests that your accuracy will often double, or even triple.

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Important Words


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