Behavioral Interviews vs Skill Tests.sASF

Recruiters need to keep in mind that behavioral interviews may be misleading when dealing with multicultural candidates, especially those who interview for certain categories of jobs in entry level or technical positions.

In the US, much emphasis is placed on performance during behavioral interview phase of hiring process. When determining who is the best candidate for the position, sometimes in the US we are getting too carried away with the significance of the results of the behavioral interview.

However, behavioral interviews are pretty much prepared answers, and they very often indicate candidates ability to self-promote rather than do the job.

Describing past experiences and accomplishments may be very challenging for the candidates from high context cultures (e.g. Asia, Latin America). Self promotion is not appreciated in many parts of the world. When we look for the best candidates regardless of his or hers background we need to keep that in mind.

In my opinion, skill tests are much more objective particularly when we are dealing with foreign-born candidates.

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[xryanlee]

Good point!