Assessing a candidate's personality traits during an interview is necessary to determine how well the person fits into the corporate culture and team dynamics.
Personal qualities of the candidate
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In our work, we use 4 main criteria for assessing the personal qualities of candidates:
Purposefulness and personal motivation
Ask the candidate about self employed data package their current and long-term career goals. What steps are they taking to achieve them? How aware are they of their goals and how willing are they to take specific actions to achieve them?
Understanding the candidate's personal motivations is extremely important. A person's involvement in work directly depends on their life values, desires, and methods of self-motivation.
Here it is relevant to ask about what motivates a person, who they admire, what books they read. You can ask this question: "If you could choose any person in the world as your mentor, who would it be?" The answer to this question will give you an understanding of how a person ideally sees himself and what qualities are valuable to him.
Communication skills and teamwork
It is important to understand how a person behaves with colleagues. Your goal is to add a strong candidate to the team, not to spoil the relationships in the team. Therefore, the skill of effective communication and interaction with other team members is very important.
Ask how things were with colleagues at your previous place of work? How exactly did you have to interact?
In general, open questions, repeating them multiple times, and observing the person's reaction and behavior will help to evaluate a person as an individual. The main thing is not to overdo it, so as not to lose a valuable employee.
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Initiative and responsibility
It is extremely important to understand the level of responsibility of the future employee. Will he/she show initiative and make independent decisions, is he/she ready to be responsible for his/her actions and results.
To assess a candidate on this criterion, you might ask the following question: “Can you tell me about a situation where you took responsibility for solving a problem without your manager’s explicit direction?”
Willingness to accept the company's terms of work
Each company has its own corporate culture. For some, informal communication and swearing in the office will be the norm, while for others, a dress code and minute-by-minute tracking of working hours are mandatory. It is important that this is acceptable for the candidate, otherwise he is unlikely to fit into your team.
It can be quite difficult to assess this, but in any case, it is better to immediately understand the boundaries of the candidate’s norm and ask what is acceptable for him and what is not.
As you can see, it is not that difficult to evaluate a person during an interview. M