SMART STAGE Three Questions You Should Ask Every Applicant
The workplace of the future has common themes, and your selection and screening process must align with that elusive concept of “job fit”. The interviewing process is very similar to dating – both parties are often not telling the truth. With the debate ongoing about hidden bias and challenges with the design of application work flow, how can we ask effective questions? In direct and occasionally humorous terms, this presentation will make the case for three simple, direct questions that get to the heart of those issues.
- Do you have values that include a work ethic?
- Do you have a “victim” mentality?
- Are you flexible and adaptable?
Come learn how these questions can uncover these truths and use them to do a better job of screening.
Karl James Ahlrichs
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Karl Ahlrichs specializes in helping professionals make order from chaos. He is a national speaker, author, and consultant, presenting on the people issues in all industries, and is often quoted in the local and national media.
Karl’s experience is ideally suited to times of organizational change as he pulls on risk management and organizational development theories to replace “best practices” with “next practices”. He owes much of his communications mastery to working as a writer and editor in daily media, to on-the-job writing experience and to the process of becoming a published author.
He joined Gregory & Appel in 2010 after serving as a founding partner of ExactHire, bringing his HR, operations, diversity & belonging, and learning & development skills with him. Karl’s affinity for design, composition and learning started at a very young age, by taking and examining thousands of boring pictures with the goal of improving his craft. He loves deploying that practice-to-improve approach with all manner of hobbies including writing haiku, mastering cutting-edge technology and learning Spanish.
In 2003, he was named the SHRM Human Resource Professional of the Year for the State of Indiana. He is on the Boards of several organizations, including the Maryland CPA Society. He has lived in Scotland and Spain and lives to explore new experiences with his wife and family.
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