Four insights on building rapport with candidates

Coffee with a Recruiter

English - September 30, 2020 08:44 - 8 minutes - 8.19 MB
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It’s essential to build good relationships with candidates, but should we do that by asking them what their hobbies are? Or what their weaknesses are, or why they want to join our company?

I don’t think we should; some discussions that aim to build relationships in our social lives bring unexpected problems to our interview processes. What are these problems, and what should we say if we still want to build rapport with a candidate?

We'll look at why some questions cause harm, the power of mirroring, showing curiosity and simplicity in writing.

Here I draw insights from the following articles/books:

Tomas Chamorro Premuzic - Why do so many incompetent men become leaders?;
Chris Voss - Never split the difference;
https://forge.medium.com/the-2-word-trick-that-makes-small-talk-interesting-fdd4d5aa693;
William Zinsser - On writing well;

Enjoy!

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