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The Manager's Guide to Conducting Interviews

By : Stephen Walker
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The Manager's Guide to Conducting Interviews

By: Stephen Walker

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (9 chapters)

The Interview Simulator


The Interview Simulator that follows should give you an opportunity to see how all the different aspects of interviewing that we have been looking at fit together.

The job details are simplified and we will examine skills and questions so you understand how they are used in a real-life interview.

While of course the simulator can't prepare you fully, it should help you recognize an effective framework for an interview. When you are in an interview situation, hopefully you will recognize similarities to the example, which in turn should help you feel confident and give you direction when you may be feeling slightly uncomfortable.

First, you need to read through the setting of the job:

  • Job details

  • Job skills specification

  • Interview questions

  • Score sheet

Job details

The successful candidate will report to the manager (that's you!) of the newly formed Vitamins Matter Too (VMT) team which is part of a national organization.

The team is tasked with auditing the cafeterias in the...