interview questions or not????

[yahoo]

wanting to hire tuesday morning and we have a likely canidate coming in ...some of us guys disagree on if we will use interview questions or not. I want to use questions to better know the new hire but others in the office disagree.....what are your thoughts???? any and all input is helpful whether you are staff level or not?????

[Mke]

Yahoo,

I dig interview questions. Nothing else shows you how someone is going to react to certain pressures then annoying questions in an interview. Some of the questions should be about level of understanding of Locating, but there should be some in there just for work ethic. For example: " Have you ever been late to work? " this one is great because most of everyone has been late to work, but you'll notice the ones who are chronicly late will stammer with the answer. Then you can lead to the next question " You do realize that time management is a key part of being a locator? "

Sorry, I like making newbs sweat it out a bit.

mke

[RD_Wrangler]

I'm with Mke.

Nothing better than questions to see how an applicant handles stress. And the "non-standard" questions serve the best usually. If they can't be relatively calm and communicate effectively in a job interview, how are they going to communicate in the field with utility reps/contractors/homeowners?

I always liked to relax them after a bit and pose questions as discussion. My favorite topic was computers. It gave me an idea on whether they were savvy or not. My biggest problems with field training came from having to teach both locating AND basic computer skills. If they seemed comfortable talking computers, training them was going to be easier. At least IMO.

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wanting to hire tuesday morning and we have a likely canidate coming in ...some of us guys disagree on if we will use interview questions or not. I want to use questions to better know the new hire but others in the office disagree.....what are your thoughts???? any and all input is helpful whether you are staff level or not?????

so, how'd it go?

and, I agree...questions are better than no questions...

Clearly no question can equal what you would discover about their stress management after a month or so of employment. You could have some guy stuttering that seemed nervous as hell during the interview, and end up a really loyal employee/quality locator who manages his ticketload properly.

Speaking of interview questions, I remember a few months ago on the radio, hearing something about guys taking a lie detector test to get hired on somewhere. I assumed they were kidding around, but who knows. In the future, I bet it will be protocol.