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7. Avoiding Leading Questions
Techniques to identify and rephrase leading or suggestive questions that bias candidate responses.
Screening & Interviewing Skills for Talent Acquisition
Avoiding Leading Questions
A technique to spot and rephrase questions that suggest an answer so you get unbiased, authentic candidate responses.
"I want to hear what they really did, not what I hinted they should say."
Leading questions implicitly suggest a preferred answer or presume facts, which biases responses; avoiding them yields clearer, more reliable evidence about a candidate's skills and behavior.
"I want to hear what they really did, not what I hinted they should say."
Leading questions implicitly suggest a preferred answer or presume facts, which biases responses; avoiding them yields clearer, more reliable evidence about a candidate's skills and behavior.