In almost every other area of endeavour that looks for talent, interviews are a last resort. As the article points out, if you’re looking for a talented sports person, you’d get them out on the field and watch them in action. You’d look at past performance and their record. You’d get testimonials. You’d try them out. But you wouldn’t just rely on an interview.

It’s amazing how good interviewers think they actually are. And how they think they can ask better questions than today’s young talent can anticipate. My favourite interview question is still, “What are your weaknesses?”. How many books have been written helping people to answer that question with a weakness that sounds like a strength (I always say that I am driven to succeed so much that I cause stress to those around me by pushing them too far too fast – a debilitating weakness that is).

So, yes, let’s move beyond the traditional interview. It’s going to fun as hiring starts to pick up. I don’t think are ready for the talent tsunami to come…