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In this episode, Mike Coffey and Jennifer Yugo discuss the shortcomings of traditional interviews and the benefits of competency-based, structured hiring processes.

In episode 251, Coffey talks with Jennifer Yugo about why traditional interviews fail to identify top candidates and how competency-based, structured hiring improves outcomes. They discuss the ineffectiveness of unstructured interviews and reliance on intuition in hiring decisions; confirmation bias and overconfidence in manager-led candidate selection processes; building competency-based hiring frameworks grounded in real job performance data; differences between skills and competencies in evaluating candidate success; designing structured interviews with behavioral and situational questions; aligning hiring processes with organizational culture and values; leveraging applications and assessments to enhance candidate evaluation consistency; improving hiring manager adoption through usability and stakeholder involvement; measuring hiring success through turnover, efficiency, and process compliance metrics; balancing candidate experience with standardized hiring systems for fairness. For HR teams who discuss this podcast in their team meetings, we've created a discussion starter PDF to help guide your conversation. Download it here https://goodmorninghr.com/EP251 Good Morning, HR…

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Host: Mike Coffey

Guest: Jennifer Yugo

Topics covered

• interview techniques
• hiring decisions
• competency-based hiring
• structured interviews
• candidate evaluation
• organizational culture
• HR best practices

Keywords

• interviews
• hiring
• competencies
• candidate selection
• structured interviews
• HR
• organizational culture
• bias
• evaluation
• performance data

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