Four insights on building rapport with candidates

An episode of the Coffee with a Recruiter podcast, hosted by Jose Marchena, titled "Four insights on building rapport with candidates" was published on September 30, 2020 and runs 8 minutes.

September 30, 2020 ·8m · Coffee with a Recruiter

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Summary

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!--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coffeewitharecruiter/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Description

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!

--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coffeewitharecruiter/message

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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