Don’t Ask

Effective hiring practices are more important than ever, but interviewing gets little or no attention. Many questions are utterly useless, and some put the questioner in legal jeopardy.

Mark Murphy

Despite the variety of personalities and attitudes out there, you can still roughly categorize people into two groups: the problem-bringers and problem-solvers. When you ask a problem-bringer about a problem, you’ll hear about the problem and nothing more. We’ve all worked with these folks, and you know that they can spend all day telling you about a problem without ever coming close to offering a … [ Read more ]