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0:00 - Intro
0:35 - Recruiting
2:04 - Sourcing
3:43 - Hiring Manager
4:43 - Commonly Asked
5:33 - Inclusivity
6:30 - Organization
7:57 - Prioritization
9:12 - Data
10:42 - Candidate Experience
11:26 - Projects
12:21 - Collaboration
13:14 - Goal Setting
13:52 - Resume/LinkedIn
14:27 - Questions to Ask
15:26 - BS
Questions by Section:
0:00 - Intro
• How would you staff a 50 person Engineering office in a location we don’t already exist?
0:35 - Recruiting
• Tell me about your most creative hire?
• Tell me about a time you filled a role that no one else could?
• What are some unique strategies you would utilize to fill open positions?
• I want you to imagine a critical position has been open for a year, how would you fill it?
2:04 - Sourcing
• Tell me about your most creative sourced hire?
• I want you to imagine you cannot access LinkedIn, how would your source?
• Tell me about a time you built a strong relationship with the Sourcing Team?
• How did you build strong relationships with Sourcers?
3:43 - Hiring Manager
• How do you make sure the hiring manager has the right requirements?
• Tell me about your most successful hiring manager relationship?
• A hiring manager is not responsive, what do you do?
4:43 - Commonly Asked
• Tell me about a time you had a conflict with a Hiring Manager?
• Tell me about a time you failed to hit your numbers?
5:33 - Inclusivity
• How do you build an inclusive candidate pipeline?
• Tell me about a time you worked with a hiring manager to make inclusivity a priority?
• What are the steps you take to make sure both the job description and interview panels are inclusive?
6:30 - Organization
• Tell me about a time your organizational skills helped the hiring process thrive?
• How do you stay organized?
•How do you organize candidate data?
• How do you calendar block for sourcing, follow ups?
• How do you time block email?
• What is your system for getting back to candidates in a timely manner?
7:57 - Prioritization
• Tell me about a time you had two hiring priorities and how you managed it?
• How do you prioritize two critical hires?
9:12 - Data
• What was your best hiring quarter ever? What did you do to make it great?
• Tell me about a time you disagreed with the job requirements?
10:42 - Candidate Experience
• How do you keep candidates up to date on their status?
• Tell me about a time you created a magical candidate experience?
11:26 - Projects
• Tell me about a time you created or enhanced the recruiting process?
• What is an initiative that you would implement to help the HR organization?
12:21 - Collaboration
• Tell me about a time your collaboration achieved great results?
• What is your strategy for building strong collaborative partnerships?
13:14 - Goal Setting
• Tell me about a time you set a stretch hiring goal and how you achieved it?
• How do you make sure your hiring goals are aggressive yet achievable?
13:52 - Resume/LinkedIn
• What are your specific strategies for identifying top talent on a resume?
• What are the best strategies to get the most out of LinkedIn?
14:27 - Questions to Ask
• What does success look like for a Recruiter in this role?
• What types of roles would I be recruiting for?
• Does this position have sourcing support?
• What are the typical quarterly goals for this position?
• What is a skill that other Recruiters have been missing during the interview process?
• Is there anything I can clarify to help you determine I am the right fit?
Additional Videos that might help:
Types of Questions -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFdkhsN1PJo
How Would Others Describe You -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4crQUC0Yrd4
Greatest Accomplishment -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9JKsDQrG9k
Disagreement with Your Boss -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rVp7_yvF8o
How Do You Like to be Managed? -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIeg4jxu7IE
Difficult Situation -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA8uR-Tl_M4
Why Should We Hire You? -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WWswOvAK38
Why Do You Want to Work Here? -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYVOr-to2Ck
What are Your Weaknesses? -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmUXqkeE44g&t=5s