Tips for Employers : Don’t make your interview process longer than necessary.
Many employers who do multiple interviews in their hiring process are highly suspicious and a lot of them don’t even realize it.
Higher and more skilled positions might need more steps in the interview process, which makes it even more important to reduce your hiring process steps. You might lose valuable highly competitive profiles.
Sometimes it’s easy to forget, but you’re not the only one doing an interview; the applicant is doing an interview of their own. It is so important to have quality interview questions and an efficient hiring process, or it could cost you the best candidate for the position.
For me (and probably many others who pay attention and have had lots of experience in job interviews), two interviews tells me that a lot of people applied for the job and you need to revisit the ones you liked best to make a decision. Three interviews makes me think that your management has poor teamwork, decision-making, problem-solving, organization, and time management skills. It tells me that regardless of how many applicants there were, that they aren’t good listeners, good communicators, and didn’t take proper notes on the applicants.
More often than not I have seen managers use the cookie-cutter interview questions and listen loosely for buzz words and the answers someone could Google to make themselves sound good instead of formulating job-specific questions and actively listening to the person being interviewed. That makes you an undesirable employer to work for, because if you’re failing to demonstrate these very important management skills in the interview, you properly fail to demonstrate them when problems in the work place actually arise.
