Screening candidates you speak to on the phone is often the first and sometimes only way you have at your disposal to establish their potential suitability for your clients’ vacant roles.

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Tips-2 Great Screening Interview
Questions You Can Use

3. 2 Great Screening Interview Questions You Can
Use
Screening candidates you speak to on the phone
is often the first and
sometimes only
way you have at
your disposal to
establish their
potential suitability
for your clients’ vacant roles.

4. 2 Great Screening Interview Questions You Can
Use
The questions you ask in these initial
conversations need to be able to bring out the
information you need, allow you to establish
rapport, and also explore the things you already
know about the candidate from their CV.
They also need to allow you to get this insight
quickly; so nobody’s time is wasted; especially
yours!

5. 2 Great Screening Interview Questions You Can
Use
Some CV’s can be vague at best and many great
candidates don’t ‘job’ hunt regularly so their
LinkedIn profile tends
to be sparse; with
little about how
great they actually
are coming through.

6. 2 Great Screening Interview Questions You Can
Use
Time to do some metaphorical digging through
asking a couple of questions you might not have
used before.
So here they are; two great interview questions
you can use when screening candidates for that
next dream placement for them and for you.

7. 2 Great Screening Interview Questions You Can
Use
“What sparked your interest in this vacancy?”
Asking the candidate
why they were interested
in the role is an
effective way of finding
out what their priorities
are. This is really important as it will give you a
great understand of their motivations

8. 2 Great Screening Interview Questions You Can
Use
For example if what they really want is a more senior
role or better pay, or if their main priority is something
else like location, size of recruitment agency, or a
chance to work in a new sector.
It may also prompt them to tell you about their
circumstances – are they simply applying for anything
they are qualified for because they are between
jobs, are they cherry picking things to apply for
because they are considering a move; or worse case
are they jumping before they are asked to leave ?!

9. 2 Great Screening Interview Questions You Can
Use
“Which of your skills do you think this company
will be most interested in or impressed by?”
This question is a different way
of asking them about their skills,
because it will give you some insight
into how well their idea of this
vacancy matches what you know
(and therefore how much you need
to go into explaining the client’s culture to them), as well as
which of their skills and achievements they are most proud
of.

10. 2 Great Screening Interview Questions You Can
Use
The creative and open style of this question also
prompts the candidate to sell these skills to
you, and it gives you a good feel for how they
might fare at representing their skills to the
potential employer.
It is also sufficiently conversational that you can
use what they tell you to open up new areas of
discussion, or express interest and develop some
initial rapport.

11. 2 Great Screening Interview Questions You Can
Use
If a candidate is really serious about a role they
will have done their research and understand what
their potential employer might be looking for.
Asking a question like this
demonstrate that ability to you.
helps
them

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