How to assess candidate’s ability to innovate, adapt, learn

How to assess candidate’s ability to innovate, adapt, learn
Jobsdb content teamupdated on 03 October, 2014
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Many times our best hires are those who are rapid continuous learners, those who are adaptable, and those who can innovate. If you want to assess these factors, consider asking these questions.

1. Show us how you would be a continuous learning expert.

“Rapid learning is essential in our fast moving company and industry. So please select an important subject matter area in this job where you will need to continuously be on the bleeding edge of knowledge. Then show us in some detail how you will initially learn and then maintain your expert status.”(Alternatively you can ask how they maintained their expert status in their current job).

2. Show us your adaptability when dramatic change is required.

“In the fast changing, chaotic, and volatile environment we operate under, everyone and every process should be adaptable. So please show us how you would adapt to this situation that may occur in this job (provide them with a possible major change that requires adaptivity in this job) by walking us through the steps of how you would adapt to it.”(Alternatively you can ask,“Please show us a situation in your current job during the last year that required you to change rapidly and adapt with a completely different approach. Tell us the name of the situation that required this significant adaptiveness and then walk us through the steps of how you and your team successfully adapted.”)

assess-candidate 3. Show us how you will innovate.

“Our firm is focused on innovation, so we need to know if each new hire has the capability of innovating. So please select a single important area in this job and walk us through the steps as to how you might innovate in that area during your first year?”(As an alternative, you can ask them to select an area in their previous job and then to walk through the steps on how that innovation was created and implemented, and what their role was in each step.)

Source : www.tlnt.com

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