Use This Job Candidate’s Checklist in Your Hiring Process
Here are 10 more factors that can cause a job candidate to be eliminated from an interview process, the second half of a list provided by Lois D. Meyer, Senior Partner, of the Lucas Group. The list is intended for job candidates but I thought it is just as useful for employers to use as a tool when evaluating candidates. Some of the items may not be new, but it never hurts to review the basics.
Did the job candidate:
- Fail to express thanks for your time?
- Ask few or no questions about the job, which indicates either a lack of interest in the job or stupidity, both of which are fatal mistakes?
- Give indefinite responses to your questions, which make the candidate sound evasive?
- Appear to be overbearing, over aggressive, conceited with a superiority or “know it all” attitude?
- Demonstrate an inability to express himself or herself clearly, i.e., used poor diction, bad grammar, slang, mumbling, speaking too low, etc.?
- Show a lack of planning for a career, with no purpose, no goals set
forth? - Appear to lack confidence and poise, i.e., was nervous, ill at ease, and tense?
- Fail to participate in the interview, for example pay no attention to what you are saying, let his or her eyes wander around the room, etc.?
- Make it clear they were unwilling to start at the bottom, and appear to expect too much too soon?
- Make excuses and hedge about unfavorable factors in their career record?
