Dear Colleague,
HR interviews are done to gauge the personality- strengths and weaknesses of a candidate to handle the role and then understand whether the candidate is suitable to do the job. Sometimes, the interviews are conducted to decide how well the candidate can fit into the company's work culture and role fit.
The HR Interview is the final deciding factor to check whether the candidate selected by Technical/ Functional Interview will fit into the Team and Organization as a whole. When this process is not done in many companies, there are high attritions and high level of hit to the business objectives of the company.
In general HR Interview is focusing to understand and document :
A. QUESTIONS RELATING TO ROLE FIT
There are focused questions checking the Role fit. It is done based on the CV of the candidate and checking his previous expertise and how best it suits to the present role the candidate is going to plan in the organization
B. QUESTIONS RELATING TO CULTURAL FIT:
The next major aspect of HR interview questions focus on how best the job candidate is fitting in to the large organization from the cultural point of view. This is a major questioning aspect to understand that the candidate even though selected by the Technical Panel, it not able to fit into the culture of the organization, then he should not be selected as it will deteriorate the organization's growth path.
C. QUESTIONS RELATING TO THE SWOT OF THE TALENT:
The third important aspect of HR interview should focus around understanding the strengths/ weakness / Opportunities and Threat aspects of the Individual. This is a follow up questions session based on a structured Phycological / Psychometric test done professionally and once having a clear documentation on the test results, with the report of mapping of the personality and then this session is used to prepare Individual Development Plant ( IDP). When the IDP is executed to develop the individual the gaps in required areas will be attempted to get sharpened.
D. VALIDATING THE KEY DETAILS ABOUT THE TALENT:
The other major are of focus in the HR interview is to cross verify and find out the authenticity of the information / details furnished by the Talent in his CV and other documents. This is an important aspect of HR Interview wherein lot of times the HR finds out that the details are magnified or inappropriately boosted but in fact it is not real. This will help the organization to find out whether right candidates are entering into the organization or not.
E. CAREER MOVE UPWARD:
The other focus for HR interview is to assess whether the Candidate is Potentially good enough to move upward in the career over a period of time in the direct function or cross function. This enables the Organization to find out detailed Potential mapping of the candidate and so on.
Based on the above dimensions, the questions are framed by HR and asked / documented in the HR Interview in most of the leading organizations. There are good number of materials available on exact questions in the websites which may be further understood for your understanding.
One link is suggested for further reading:
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/h...view-questions