The Best Choice for Interviewers - 25 Reasons Why

Credible and Safe

1. The Know Thy Hire® interview questions have been developed by professional profilers with decades of experience working in the real world, with real people at all levels of responsibility across a wide array of businesses and agencies.

2. Using Know Thy Hire® is safe because it’s a part of your overall selection process that helps you to make decisions based on observable interview behavior.

3. All Know Thy Hire® questions, though designed to illuminate highlights of an applicant’s personality, are workplace oriented.  There are no questions about non-work related topics.

4. Know Thy Hire® capitalizes on the interviewer’s experienced judgment.  Hiring an industrial psychologist to conduct a job-analysis is expensive, time-consuming, usually task-based only (ignoring organizational fit).  Such efforts merely try to imitate the interviewer’s own judgments in watered-down documents.  Experienced judgment IS the “horse’s-mouth.”  Technical approaches just try to mimic that judgment.

5. Know Thy Hire® clearly highlights dominant characteristics of the candidate because the questions are selected on the basis of the most efficient and expert workplace profiling technology available.

6. Know Thy Hire® questions are not threatening questions, they are tailored questions.  There are no prejudicial, illegal or loaded questions.  They are all questions that anyone would recognize as sensible to ask.

7. It is generally considered most fair to give the same interview to all applicants; but the same guidance would be silly if applied to follow-up questions.  Follow-up questions depend entirely on the first answers provided by the applicant.  If there is a concern about uniformity of the interview, Know Thy Hire® questions can easily be worked in as follow-up questions which are expected to be different across interviewees.

Helpful and Flexible

8. Know Thy Hire® doesn’t assume that an applicant’s characteristic is a weakness or a strength.  A strength in one situation will be a weakness in another situation.  Know Thy Hire® shines a light on personality “highpoints” and leaves the evaluation to the company/agency experts, HR professionals and operational managers.

9. Know Thy Hire® allows the interviewer to select from the set of Know Thy Hire® questions as few or as many as fit the interview time available.

10. Know Thy Hire® questions can be interspersed with the interviewer’s own preferred questions for ease, smoothness and completeness of the interview.

11. Interviewers learn, by hands-on experience with Know Thy Hire® questions, what great questions look like and how they work.  This helps the interviewer to create better questions for the job-specific topics they’ll want to cover.

12. Using Know Thy Hire® will give your interviewers increased confidence with usage, allowing them to present a professional demeanor in front of the applicant.  This will serve to help the client open up to the interviewer.

13. Using Know Thy Hire® gives an interviewer a huge jump in interview effectiveness.  This can create an interviewer-enthusiasm for interviewing, and increase the interviewer’s desire to advance her/his skills further.  This data-gathering skill can be generalized to other “root-cause” seeking efforts, especially those that are organizational in nature.

14. Know Thy Hire® doesn’t replace your interview, but will punch up any interview process you currently rely on.

15. Know Thy Hire® is not only unprejudiced, it is emotionally neutral.  If you want to create a “showcase” supportive style interview, your supportive demeanor will make the questions appear to present a great opportunity to open up and “show one’s stuff”.  If you want a stress interview, just change your demeanor and probe aggressively and the questions, being targeted to the individual can be made to create a substantial challenge to the interviewee.

16. Know Thy Hire® questions elicit information about the candidate that, once hired, can be the starting point for an individual development program.

Revealing and Unbiased

17. Know Thy Hire® doesn’t prejudice the interviewer with generic strengths and weaknesses.  Other approaches can create tunnel vision by biasing the interviewer’s evaluative filters.

18. Know Thy Hire® questions open major windows on the applicant’s character and maturity.  These open windows make probing with follow-up questions much easier since the interviewer simply asks further questions about the applicant’s prior answer.  This shifts the burden of the interview from the shoulder of the interviewer to the applicant, where it belongs.

19. The Know Thy Hire® process works to create an ideal target profile for selection.  Other approaches do job-analysis but such approaches are typically conducted by technical analysts with little to no experience in real-world workplace realities.  Such analyses are often caricatures of the actual situation on the job.  The typically low predictive validities of these approaches support this fact.

20. Know Thy Hire® reveals more than “Can they do the job?”  The best way to test that is a work-sample test.  However, more complex jobs are not so easy to test.  Questions such as “Can the candidate adapt?”, “Are they willing or eager to learn?”, “Do they appreciate the importance of getting along with other co-workers?”, “Do they have the motivation to be helpful?”, “Are they all about themselves?”, etc., make a bigger difference overtime than a snapshot of current skills.

21. Know Thy Hire® questions are so well targeted they will be surprising to the applicant who will ask her/himself, “How did they know to ask that?”  This will provide an excellent opportunity to read hard-to-conceal non-verbal cues related to confidence, stress, deceit, interest, etc.

Easy and Unique

22. Unlike psychological tests, Know Thy Hire® provides precisely targeted interview questions.

23. Know Thy Hire® is a God-send for inexperienced interviewers by providing revealing questions to ask, preventing the typical “interviewer monologue” that often replaces true interviewing conversation.

24. Your interviewers don’t have to become expert profilers themselves.  That expertise is embedded in the software behind the scenes.  All the interviewer has to do is ask the Know Thy Hire® questions and evaluate the answers.

25. Know Thy Hire® wastes no time groping in the dark for some elusive hot-button.  Know Thy Hire® aims directly and only at the most pronounced features of an applicant’s workplace persona, making the interview most effective and efficient.