EMPLOYER U-I OCCASIONAL USE PAGES

Note on “Employer Interview Console”

• Clicking on “Candidate Name” by interviewer will:

  • open up his resume in a pop-up

  • invite him for interview by message:
    “Good morning/afternoon, We/I am glad for you to come”

  • fill up “candidate being interviewed” field

• As soon as candidate arrives in the waiting room, his name/timing turns GREEN. This tells the interviewer who all are waiting.

• If a candidate is found to be “Absent” when his turn comes, he can be skipped over and interviewer can click on the next waiting candidate. The “skipped” candidate’s name will get pushed to the very bottom of the list.

• What will be the reaction of the interviewer when he finds that a few other interviewers are “listening” (or reading the typed Q&A?) to conversation—and that his performance is being “rated”? For him this is an “Instant Feedback” from peers!

• Based on my own experience of many years of sitting on hundreds of interview panels with hundreds of other interview-panel-members, I strongly believe that:

• the interviewer will start asking tougher questions in order to impress these invisible “peers”

• he will anxiously watch if his “Ave Rating Score” is climbing up or not.

Note on “Employer Interview Console”

• If interview takes place thru “chat”, I believe one can “save” the entire log. I don’t know whether “voice” log can be saved or not. It would be nice if it can.

• I have provided “save interview log” button. If clicked, it will save entire (typed) log and store it against that candidate’s PEN. Then, we can enable either interviewer or the concerned candidate to “access/view” this log at a later date.

• Going over such a log, at a later date, can prove to be a very useful “Learning Tool” – at least for the candidate. He may share/discuss questions asked and answers he gave with his friends.

• All candidates do this (exchange) even today – but, it gets limited by what/how much he “remembers” of the interview.

• With a facility to “access/view” entire log, he does not have to depend upon his memory! Feedback from friends would help him prepare better for the next interview.

• In www.IndiaRecruiter.net, we had a feature called:
  “IIT – Interactive Interview Tool”

• In this, we had following features:

  • Keywords (function/skill) found in a resume got highlighted

  • Hovering mouse on any keyword, opened a tooltip reading:

    • Consult Wikipedia  
    • See Interview Questions  

• Altogether, we had compiled an inventory of some 15,000+ Interview Questions in a database.

• If interviewer clicked on Wikipedia, it would open page concerning that keyword. That helped interviewer ask relevant questions.

• If he clicked “See Interview Questions”, it showed one or more questions which contained that keyword. It does help. But 15,000 was a too low figure, considering what can be asked.

• I believe, we should incorporate this feature in OnlineJobsFair, at “Employer Interview Console”.

• On top of that, interviewer can see “past interview questions asked” by ALL recruiters by clicking “View past interview log” button.
  (Note: in margin – “Same Co. or All Companies”)

• But we need to store all past logs of all past interviewers, for identical/similar positions/vacancy. No use seeing questions pertaining to (say) “Graduate Eng. Trainee” when you are interviewing for “Counter Salesman”.

Raise the Bar

Dear Interviewer

No doubt you are an expert at interviewing but there is always something new to learn from watching other experts at interviews.

Over last 54+ years, I learned a lot by sitting on hundreds of Interview Panels and watching other panel members ask tricky / witty / intelligent / probing questions. And even today, I continue to learn.

So, go ahead and click on any “Position being interviewed” and find out who is asking what questions. (You will need headphones to listen to the ongoing conversation between the interviewer and the candidate).

Such “learning thru observing” would be all the more desirable if you are beginning your career in some HR department, having just graduated as MBA (HR).

And, just as you walk-in (invisible, ghost-like) into any interview cabin, remember, other interviewers may also be observing your interviewing skills whenever you are interviewing a candidate!

So, better compile a list of some tough questions before starting that interview.

Raise the bar!

Hemen Parekh