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Take the Hiring Quiz: Do you hire well?

Answer these ten questions to see how your hiring practices rate. Use the last hire you made, and be honest. An email will be sent to you with complete commentary on each question, as well as additional insights into improving your hiring.

Your First Name:
Your Email Address:
1) Did you have the references of the last person you hired checked thoroughly?
Yes No
2) How many times were each of your short-list candidates interviewed in total
(include phone interviews):
A - Once
B - Twice
C - Three times
D - More than three
3) How long did you spend in the initial in-person interview with each candidate?
A - Less than 30 min.
B - 30 min.
C - Over 30 min.
D - 1 hour
E - Over 1 hour
4) Did anyone else from your organization sit in on any of the interviews?
Yes No
5) Who would you say did the most talking in the interviews?
A - You
B - The candidate
C - Half you, Half candidate
D - Someone else there
6) Did you ask the same prepared (written) set of questions of each candidate?
Yes No
7) What kinds of questions did you ask?
A - Open-ended questions mostly
B - Closed-questions mostly
C - Half and half
D - Not sure
8) When did you explain the specifics of the position?
A - At the beginning of the interview
B - Near the end of the interview
C - On their 1st day of work
9) Do you ever prepare any practical tests for candidates to see how they
perform tasks?
Yes No
10) Have you ever made a hire that left, or was let go, within a year? Or made a bad
hire who is hanging on?
Yes No




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