{"id":6520,"date":"2019-06-28T10:51:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T15:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=6520"},"modified":"2019-09-30T10:40:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T15:40:33","slug":"5-interview-questions-that-will-help-you-hire-better-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/hr\/5-interview-questions-that-will-help-you-hire-better-people\/","title":{"rendered":"5 interview questions that will help you hire better people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hiring may be the most important thing you do in your business. It\u2019s one thing to test candidates for skill, but getting a sense of someone&#8217;s character and whether they will fit your culture is not easy in an interview. Here are some great interview questions to evaluate character in a potential hire.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/ideas.ted.com\/5-interview-questions-that-will-help-you-hire-better-people\/\">5 interview questions that will help you hire better people<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>While the number of questions that can be asked on a job interview are infinite, almost all of them fall into one of two categories: questions about competency or questions about character. Competency questions are aimed at establishing a person&#8217;s skills, abilities and qualifications; character questions are intended to illuminate their intrinsic values and personality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiring may be the most important thing you do in your business. It\u2019s one thing to test candidates for skill,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/tedideas.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/07\/ted_digital_02_2000px.jpg?w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"5 interview questions that will help you hire better people","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[43,45,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-6520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hr","8":"tag-engagement","9":"tag-leadership","10":"tag-wellness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8111,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520\/revisions\/8111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}