Have a look at http://www.quintcareers.com/STAR_interviewing.html
I do not represent this company nor receive any benefit from referring you to them. I was subjected to and eventually used this technique for interviewing job applicants. I found it to be extremely useful IF you accept the premise that a person's work performance in the future may be well anticipated by her or his prior work experience and performance. While I found the complete process overly complex and over the top for my purposes, the process of getting a candidate to recall and describe a real situation or task (ST), the action(A) that he or she took and the results(R) of that action was very useful. Several conversations on relevant topics; e.g, "Describe a situation where you had to resolve an interpersonal dispute between two employees; the action you took; and the results." This gets the candidate out of the theoretical or abstract and into the real world of what they did. Of course, people lie, so you need to take it all with a grain of salt... as in all things human! My $0.02.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=25081 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
