Often, recruitment efforts focus heavily on experience and skills. While these characteristics are important, value-based hiring places special emphasis on the values, motives, and attitudes of the applicant pool. The idea is to identify the essential, core values of the organization and incorporate them into the recruitment process to hire more employees who share those key values.
By making a strategic shift in your hiring process and asking value-based interview questions, you could drastically improve your matchmaking abilities.
Top 14 Value-based Questions to ask in a Job Interview
1.Give me an example of a time when you were particularly perceptive regarding a patient’s (or customer’s) feelings and needs?
2.What opportunities have you had working and collaborating in diverse, multicultural, and inclusive settings?
3.What is your definition of diversity? How do you encourage people to honor the uniqueness of each individual? How do you challenge stereotypes and promote sensitivity and inclusion?
4.How do you seek opportunities to improve the learning environment to better meet the needs of students from all over the world?
5.Describe your experience in serving or teaching underrepresented communities.
6.How would you work with people under your supervision to foster a climate receptive to diversity in the department, the curriculum, staff meetings, printed materials, initiatives, etc?
7.If you were hiring someone for your position, what would you be looking for?
8.What skills help you do your job especially well?
9.Describe a difficult situation that you managed successfully.
10.Describe a time when you put your needs aside to help a co-worker understand a task.
11.Tell me/us about a time when you improved a process by creating a cross-functional team.
12.Can you give me/us a recent example of how you displayed loyalty or commitment to your team?
13.Give an example of a time when you were part of a great team
14.Tell me/us about a time when you disagreed with your team’s agreed course of action.
Why should you ask Value-based Questions in a Job Interview?
To ensure that you hire someone who shares the same values as you and the company does means that their experiences and perspectives are different enough to provide immediate value in terms of how they grow your team’s capabilities.
A value-driven interview can be very telling and one could get to be in a very meaningful conversation with the candidate while also trying to get to know their values in conjunction with learning about their experiences.
