I sit on the other side of the table from your readers, 20+ years of hiring for restaurants and small companies, so nothing like Meta scale. But the story catalog idea checks out from my chair too. Candidates who prepped 4 or 5 real stories are easier to interview and honestly easier to hire, because the evidence I need is right there instead of me digging for it. I try to get past the rehearsed first answer with follow-ups. Do you coach people on the second and third question too? That's usually where I find out who somebody actually is.
Yes, follow ups are super important, and there are a number of challenges for folks: extemporaneously delivering responses in a time-constrained and pressured space, and knowing what parts of the story are most interesting to the interviewer are probably the two biggest skills to leverage there.
That second one is interesting to me, because from my chair it's my job to tell them what I care about. If a candidate is guessing which part of the story I want, that's usually a setup problem on my end. So I say up front we're going deep on one or two stories and they don't need to march through the whole resume. The answers get a lot less performed after that.
I sit on the other side of the table from your readers, 20+ years of hiring for restaurants and small companies, so nothing like Meta scale. But the story catalog idea checks out from my chair too. Candidates who prepped 4 or 5 real stories are easier to interview and honestly easier to hire, because the evidence I need is right there instead of me digging for it. I try to get past the rehearsed first answer with follow-ups. Do you coach people on the second and third question too? That's usually where I find out who somebody actually is.
Yes, follow ups are super important, and there are a number of challenges for folks: extemporaneously delivering responses in a time-constrained and pressured space, and knowing what parts of the story are most interesting to the interviewer are probably the two biggest skills to leverage there.
That second one is interesting to me, because from my chair it's my job to tell them what I care about. If a candidate is guessing which part of the story I want, that's usually a setup problem on my end. So I say up front we're going deep on one or two stories and they don't need to march through the whole resume. The answers get a lot less performed after that.