So you’ve got your longlist of candidates for a job in your school, but what do you do next in an ever-changing recruitment landscape?
and analyse what job interviews are really for and what they achieve, and how advancements in technology and HR can help and hinder the process.
Kai underlines why it is so important to know exactly what an interview question or task is designed to achieve, and explains how being too rigid in your approach can stop you getting to know what really makes the candidate tick.
They talk about the dangers of appointing people simply because they “fit in” and discuss the increasing use of competency-based tasks.
They also discuss the changing role of the job reference, and whether it should go beyond checking for safeguarding or disciplinary issues.
Kai also outlines his dream for a balanced interview process, where recruiters can “really find out who candidates are as human beings”.
