Motivation-based Interviewing: A Revolutionary Approach to Hiring the Best

by Carol Quinn

Hiring the best requires more than just assessing a candidate's skill. Interviewers must also determine the candidate's attitude toward overcoming obstacles and how passionate they are about achieving your goals—both proven predictors of future success. Hiring expert and popular keynote speaker Carol Quinn provides the definitive textbook for accurately and reliably assessing skill, attitude, and passion, so you can expose the incremental differences that separate the pretenders from the genuine high performers.

Genres: Business, Historical Romance

224 pages, Paperback

Published July 31, 2018

Reviews

[Andi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am not a professional interviewer. However, I have interviewed candidates in the past. And each time I felt an anxiety about it! I did not feel like I knew what I was doing. And I knew enough to know that, if I messed it up -- if I failed to assess the candidate correctly -- I was going to end up with a bad hire on my team. I HAVE made bad hires over the years and wish I could have avoided them.

With Carol's book, I now do!

Motivation-Based Interviewing (MBI) has been around for 20 years but is finally taking the hiring world by storm! That's because, unlike Behavior-Based Interviewing, it assesses a candidate's "I can!" attitude -- their motivation to overcome adversity and challenge. This is what drives change. This is what gets goals accomplished!

This book helps you learn to craft interview questions, teaches you how to let the candidate answer the question (yes, HOW TO LET the interviewee answer) and how to assess the answers to identify high-performers.

If I had a time capsule, I would go back 20 years and do all my hiring using MBI!

[Missy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a must read if you are tasked with interviewing and making hiring decisions for your company.

[Daniel Vasilenko · Rating 5 out of 5]

It’s a good book with useful examples and explanations. It was worth the read. Sadly by the time I’ve read the book, I was no longer interviewing

[Krissy Pydynowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this for continuous education for my job, and it is a must read/game-changer for anyone who does recruiting!

[Lindsay Dadko · Rating 5 out of 5]

Life changing for any hiring manager.

[Whytli Rogers · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hate to admit that this was actually a game-changing book for my recruiting and interviewing strategy at work. This framework provided the language and structure to more effectively evaluate candidates for engagement and problem-solving, two concepts that we previously had a difficult time conceptualizing in a standardized scorecard format.