{"id":8056,"date":"2024-07-11T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T08:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arliemediadesign.com\/?p=8056"},"modified":"2025-03-19T13:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T13:24:06","slug":"do-your-people-get-to-do-the-job-in-the-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happy.co.uk\/blogs\/do-your-people-get-to-do-the-job-in-the-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Your People Get to Do the Job in the Interview?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this video, Henry Stewart talks about getting people to do the job in interviews, and why this is effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a traditional job interview, applicants will be asked questions about the role. But at Happy’s interviews, they are asked to show that they can do the role instead. Not everyone who is good at the role is good at answering questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, one of the qualities Happy looks for in facilitators is that they are positive and supportive of others, and that they can be coached. So each interview is conducted in groups of six, where each candidate delivers a session then receives feedback from their fellow candidates. They then have to deliver the same session again, taking this feedback into account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We used to ask them what would be a great trainer, and they’d all answer with the great kind of stuff,” says Henry. “But then when we put them in the room, they’d do something completely different. So we don’t ask questions of these people, we just get them to do the job.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you get your people to do the job in the interview? How could you get people to demonstrate the attitude you are looking for?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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