{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Modern Manager","title":"43: Learning from Experience Interviews","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":942,"description":"Managers are often expected to be natural interviewers with a discerning ear, able to determine if a candidate is both capable of doing the job and a good fit with the team. I had to learn how to interview and assess a candidate because it's way more complicated than a gut check.\r\nThis week, I explain learning from experience interviewing and the process I use to understand a candidates capability, competencies and culture fit.\r\n \r\nGet the free mini-guide to help you prepare for your next interview.\r\n \r\nWhen you join the Modern Manager community, get the full guide with competencies and questions I often use when interviewing. In addition, get access to prior episode guides, guest bonuses and 30% off personality based coaching to help you better understand your preferences and learn new strategies to help you be a rockstar manager.\r\n \r\nSubscribe to my newsletter to get episodes, articles and mini-guides delivered to your inbox.\r\n \r\nRead the related blog article: How to Lead Learning from Experience Interviews\r\n \r\nKey Takeaways:\r\n\r\nI typically seek to assess whether a candidate has the hard skills (capability), soft skills (competencies) and culture fit to thrive in the role.\r\nUse the interview to primarily assess competencies. Use a simulation to assess capability. Culture fit can be assess during the interview and simulation.\r\nHow a person behaved in the past is a great indicator of how they'll be have in the future. Use \"tell me about a time when...\" questions to explore how a person has behaved in the past under certain conditions.\r\nExplore prior behavior, how they understand a competency intellectually, and what they've learned from an experience where they didn't apply the competency well or over-used it.\r\nPrepare for the interview by know what competencies are important for the role, what questions you'll ask, and what you'll look for in their answers.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/IvCiC08TmEaLfiWfIp4hQpevNnIYYK66jomGoU9YB4s/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hNTM2/MGMyYmY3ZmNkOTFj/OWFkMGY5NjcwNzM0/OTU5Mi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}