From charterworks: Use these unconventional job-interview questions to find people with a creative spark
Here is a sampling of interview questions that they recommend, along with the reasoning behind each one:This sheds light on “intellectual habits, curiosity, and what a person does in his or her spare time, all at once,” the authors write. They believe that what you do in your free time can help reveal personality and how you approach self-improvement.
When have you experienced great regret in the workplace and why? How much were you at fault in that interaction? Cowen and Gross suggest some questions to ask a candidate’s references, originally proposed by Stripe CEO Patrick Collison:Can this person get you to where you need to be way faster than any reasonable person could?
The focus on refining the individual judgment of hiring managers or investors and dismissal of structured “bureaucratic” approaches to hiring likely leaves greater openings for bias and individual blindspots to influence decisions. At least 20% to 40% of the growth in US economic output since 1960 stems from the better allocation of talent, according to the authors, as women and workers of color are better able to access jobs they are suited for.
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