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4 Things Interviews Of Tomorrow Must Discover

4 Things Interviews Of Tomorrow Must Discover
by Hank Boyer

Traditional hiring has largely focused on a candidate's experience and education as the primary qualifiers for a position. Both skills and knowledge can be learned and mastered over time.
 
While there certainly is merit in evaluating what someone has learned (knowledge) and what he or she has done (skills) so far in a career (experience), it is at best an incomplete set of criteria. Why? Because there is more to performing a job than just knowledge and skills.

Study after study shows that of those new hires who fail in a job, most do not fail for lack of knowledge or lack of skill, but rather for who they are and who they are not. In other words, they fail for the absence of specific natural capabilities with which an individual is born, and which can be developed, mastered and applied on the job.

For example, a Leadership IQ study found that only 11 percent of new hire failures were due to a lack of technical skills, with deficiencies in coachability, motivation, temperament and emotional intelligence as collectively comprising 81 percent of the reasons new hires fail.

The purpose of this article is to set forth a highly adaptable framework for employers to use to identify and screen for the critical natural capabilities required for success in a position, and for job seekers to understand in anticipation of being interviewed by employers that use this approach.

1. Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

Measures the reasoning capacity of an individual and is a predictor of a person's ability to learn and assimilate new information and to solve complex problems. Consider how rapidly technology will increase the degree of complexity of most jobs, which is why IQ matters as a valid predictor of job success.

McKinsey & Company's recent report, "Management Intuition for the Next 50 Years," points out how complexity is increasing in the jobs of tomorrow, requiring workers who have the intellectual capacity to recognize, think through and solve complex problems rapidly.

2. Emotional Intelligence (EI or EQ)

Measures someone's ability to perceive, control and express emotions (commonly called "people smarts"). EQ is predictive of someone's ability to fit on a team and his or her interpersonal acumen, and is helpful in assessing entrepreneurial tendencies.

In a global economy, the ability to relate to other people is increasingly important.

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