How to Run an Interview Without Threatening to Get Your Nose Broken by Offended Candidates
summary
Serhiy Babich, a Solution Architect at Edvantis, explains how to run job interviews effectively and respectfully: prepare focused questions, listen actively, wait for answers without interrupting, ask “how” rather than just “what,” give constructive feedback, and encourage candidates. The talk covers practical interviewer behaviors—smiling, being polite, steering but not burying the candidate, and keeping questions concise—to avoid hostile reactions and improve hiring interactions.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:30Who is the interviewer?
- 4:03What is the purpose of an interview?
- 5:44What kind of interview is this?
- 7:19Prepare interview questions
- 9:57Smile
- 13:48Don’t stretch out questions
- 16:37Wait for the answer to finish. Don’t interrupt
- 18:29Don’t let the person bury themselves
- 22:59Listen
- 24:53Ask not 'what' but 'how'
- 27:01Feedback
- 32:26Encourage
- 36:17Advise
- 37:12Be polite
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