10 business days is the optimal time to bring an interview process to a successful outcome. 

The way to achieve this is to tighten timelines from stage to stage and cut down the number of people involved in the process. Now I know what you are thinking, that more people should be involved. Which is incorrect.

The reason we involve more people in the interview process is because we value their “opinion” or “input” on the individual. But opinion has no value when it comes to making a hiring decision. And opinion is what you get when your interview questions are not tied to gathering evidence. 

Opinion breeds assumptions, bias & personal motives. Which do NOT serve the growth of the business.

I’m Rick Girard and welcome to the Hire Power Radio Show. We help Entrepreneurs and executives WIN-WIN the strongest hires. 

By sharing insights from top-performing rebel entrepreneurs, game-changers & industry leaders. Like our guest today:  Nick Livingston 

Nick is the Co-Founder & CEO of Honeit Software. 

Formerly the Head of Recruiting at TubeMogul (Adobe), Nick and his team scaled the company from 60 to 360 employees through a successful IPO ($TUBE) in just over 26 months. 

In the same two years, he attended business school at UC Berkeley, started a family (three daughters) and co-founded Honeit Software, which is the all-in-one interview platform designed by recruiters to schedule, record, transcribe, search and share interview answers for quick collaboration and higher quality hiring.

Today we discuss:

• Why anything more than 3 interviews it too much

In today’s market, a candidate doesn’t have time to speak with 8 different people in your organization. 

Challenge today?

• Interview simplification

Why is this important to the company?

• Interview data gets lost

Rick’s Nuggets

• Value of the discovery call is lost

• What a person desires

How do we solve the problem? 

• Interview conversations as business intelligence conversations

• Competitive intelligence

• Questions related to core values

• role of the recruiter was to give ‘time back’ to hiring managers

• Record the interview

• Do we still need 8 separate 45-minute conversations for 8 people to be involved with the interview process? NO!
  

Rick’s Nuggets

• Discovery call

Key Takeaways that the Audience can plug into their business today! (Value):

• Interviews are two-way conversation… Candidates are interviewing YOU and your team.

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