Hiring continues to be the key to a company’s success. Hiring the right staff —with the skills and characteristics required for success—requires behavioral event interviewing. This article provides insights into effective interviewing and hiring.

In today’s competitive environment, hiring has increasingly become a key link in establishing and maintaining your company’s edge. By attracting and hiring the best people, your company can move quickly and grow steadily. On the flip side, however, poor hires cost you precious time, money, and opportunity. Poor hiring could cost you your company.

Unfortunately, hiring candidates who can do what they say they can do is getting tougher. A whole industry has sprung up in the past ten years helping job seekers land a job—sometimes at all costs. You can’t afford to hire someone who can’t do the job, do it with minimal direction, or do it quickly. Fortunately, there are techniques that you can use to ensure that the candidate you select can do the job. We will examine four techniques here—demonstrations, simulations, problem solving, and testing—and introduce a powerful interviewing technique—High Performance Interviewing.

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