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Gallup Interviews, Tips and Advice

Gallup Interviews, Tips and Advice

Gallup Interviews, Tips and Advice

(OP)
All,

A relation of mine has recently had an interview (by telephone) for a position with a large US medical multinational. She told me that the telephone interview was conducted using the Gallup Interview process, which I have never heard of.

So curiousity has got the better of me and I was interested to hear others comments/tips and advice regarding this interview technique.

Kevin

“It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class." ~Author Unknown

"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three." ~Author Unknown

RE: Gallup Interviews, Tips and Advice

80% of communication is body language (although I never understood how people ever quantified that but anyway). Voluntarily giving up 80% of the use of the interview to save a few peanuts on travel expense of candidates sounds to me like putting the horse behind the carriage. Hiring the right people is much too important to make it a marginal activity.

When we hire people there are multiple interviews with different teams of people during at least an entire morning or afternoon (including lunch with a few glasses of wine, which is usually very revealing), followed by a psych test just to detect any hidden "defects". Still this gives only limited information and I find it extremely difficult to compare different candidates if there is a week or more between the interviews.

RE: Gallup Interviews, Tips and Advice

We use telephone interviews to screen out blatantly unsuitable candidates prior to going to the expense of a second face-to-face interview. I've never heard of the "Gallup Interview Process" though. I expect its some HR guru who's come up with a good name and a new way to package what amounts to the same thing. We've recently had to go through "Competency-based Interview" training to ensure we have the right paperwork to prove we were right in hiring the person who would have been offered the job anyway.

RE: Gallup Interviews, Tips and Advice

Are you sure your cousin wasn't taken in by a scammer who asked for personal information (especially if she is not US native and is looking for job in the US?)

Just being somewhat cynical...

Patricia Lougheed

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RE: Gallup Interviews, Tips and Advice

(OP)
CorBlimeyLimey,

I never even made the association

Thanks

Kevin

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