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Articles by Ed Burton
Are Your Weaknesses Simply the Flip Side of Your Strengths?
Weaknesses. Development priorities. Areas for improvement. Call them what you want — we all have them. Some are career-limiting (lack of drive) and some may be minor annoyances (overtalking). Some are intractable (ethical gaps) and some are quite addressable (lack of domain expertise). Having led 360 feedback and coaching processes for over 250 CEOs, C-suite leaders, and senior investors in my career, I’ve learned some interesting truths about people’s weaknesses.
To Be A Great Interviewer, Keep This Mantra in Mind
I just wrapped up an interview coaching session with a technical leader at a high-growth SaaS company. This leader had a (very common) tendency — every time he asked the candidate about her weaknesses or her prior mistakes, he would ask a follow-up question about how she had improved in that area or how she fixed the mistake. I recommend removing this follow-up from your repertoire entirely.
Interviewers: Stop Asking Multipart Questions
I’ve always loved Jon Stewart’s comedy. Truly brilliant. But as a talk show host, he has an odd habit: When he interviews guests, he will often ask them two, three, or even four questions at once. “When did you finally decide to do that, and what inspired you in the first place? And did it end up being as great as you hoped, or were there parts that didn’t measure up?” If you watch those clips, you’ll see that his guests typically answer only one of his questions, and it’s usually the final one.
The Critical Step Necessary to Avoid Painful Hiring Mistakes
If you want to avoid painful hiring mistakes, do not skip the critical step of conducting high-quality, high-touch reference interviews. Failing to do so can leave huge value on the table. Here are the top four reasons why references are so important: 1. They verify the information you’ve gathered in interviews. It doesn’t happen often, but candidates can and do share misleading information at times. Reference checks provide a critical backstop. 2. They can reveal blind spots.
‘Leading the Witness’ — Why Great Interviewers Avoid This Common Trap
Skip to main content Hiring mistakes are enormously costly. If you want to avoid them, you can’t afford to be less than an excellent interviewer (or at least have a few standout interviewers on your team). This means learning how to get past the spin and uncover the candidate’s truth. I recently had an interview coaching session with the CFO of one of my clients. He did a marvelous job of building rapport and asking open-ended questions.
The ‘10-Second Rule’ in Interviewing
For a candidate, interviews can be an intense and nerve-wracking experience, especially when the job in question is an attractive one. The stakes are enormously high. Each interaction feels make-or-break. Imagine you’re in the candidate’s shoes. You’re finally in the room (or on the Zoom) with your would-be boss and you’re asked a thoughtful question about some element of your prior experience. You want desperately to pick a story from your memory bank that best fits the bill.
‘Just Say No’ to These 4 Interview Formats
Skip to main content In our work helping organizations improve their hiring and interviewing processes, we have encountered just about every interview approach you can imagine. Some interview formats are great, some are “innocuous but ineffective,” and some are downright destructive. In this article we will explore four formats that are most concerning, given their widespread use. 1. Panel interviews What happens when multiple interviewers meet with a candidate at once?
The Most Problematic Interview Question May Also Be the Most Common
It’s the most frequently asked interview question, right up there with: “Tell me about yourself.” It’s often the first question a candidate is asked — and in multiple interviews. It sounds harmless, but it can set in motion a whole series of problems. “Jordan, why are you interested in our company (or this role)?” Give me your job description, 30 minutes, and a good internet connection, and prepare to be dazzled . . .
The Alan Jonestown Massacre — Grays Sports Almanac
The Alan Jonestown Massacre by Ed Burton As round one of the new NRL season comes around this week, the strangest fixture is, without doubt, Saturday night’s match between the Titans and the Tigers. With everything that has happened on the Gold Coast over the last week or two, it would take a minor miracle for the Titans to be competitive. It would be an achievement just to get enough players together to form a match day squad.
Synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy for investigating vanadium speciation in marine sediment: limitations and opportunities
Vanadium (V) exists in a number of oxidation states in the environment, potentially making it a useful chemical tracer of both modern and ancient redox conditions in the Earth’s oceans. However, the use of V as a redox tracer relies on a comprehensive understanding of V geochemistry in marine systems, which in turn requires the ability to accurately measure its solid-phase speciation in marine sediments.
Virginia's Shane set to face ranked player - GoDanRiver.com: ACC
Virginia senior Ryan Shane begins play in the Charlottesville Men’s Pro Challenger on Monday night with a match against American Sekou Bangoura, Jr., the 205th-ranked player in the world. The tournament, taking place at the Boar’s Head Sports Club, features several top professionals and also includes Shane’s current UVa teammates, Mac Styslinger and Collin Altamirano. An online service is needed to view this article in its entirety. You need an online service to view this article in its entirety.
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