Becoming Employer – Interview Preparation

Recently, I had chance to help one of my friend in hiring the people for his small software company. Positions were mainly for web based application developers. I interviewed about 15 people and handed over the shortlist to him. That was my first and important experience to be an interviewer. Now, me too, thinking of hiring some people on payroll. So, I started reading some material over the web about the topic Employing People and related stuff. Listed below are some good points, I would like to share with my readers. Hope, its useful for you!

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Interview Preparation Tips – Interviewer Point of View:

1.  For every small company, started by one or few individuals, there comes one point where they can hire more people.
2. Adding employees does not always mean adding more costs to your business in form of employee benefits, bookkeeping, salaries etc. If planned properly, employees can add good value to your company.
3. You can not do every task by yourself. Sometimes, delegating the task is best way to get the works done.
4. Getting tasks done by others brings you with great benefit of time. This can let you focus on your area of expertise e.g. creating new product ideas, creating sales plan or anything in your field.
5. More people working at your firm means increased number of customer you can supply to. With limited number of people it is really hard to deliver product/service to large set of customers.
6. Higher unemployment in market means better chances of getting the good employees at lower cost than normal times. Also, freshers from the colleges could be good employees if chosen and trained properly.
7. Another personal benefit is to you. You get a team to manage and lead. So, you get to work on your managerial and leadership skills which are timeless.
8. Similar to preparing for interview as a candidate, you must do your homework while preparing for being interviewer.
9. Prepare a set of questions and make sure to ask open ended questions. Open ended means the question that needs some explanation. Make the candidate speak for most of time.
10. If you are asking technical questions, offer pen and paper.
11. Once, with my friends, we had worked on a documentary. There I learn this thing. We had so many video clips and had to select from from them on various criterion like video quality, camera shakes, content importance and relevance etc. So, instead of deciding one by one we played all of them in a row. We, all team members, started taking down the things on paper. In the end, we compared our opinions from paper. All the good scenes were captured very easily and effectively. So, while you interview the candidate don’t forget to take down your opinions on paper.

So, this is all in my list of preparation for being interviewer and I am still studying.

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