The candidates that you interview are first and foremost people. They are creatures like me and you that are ruled by emotions, especially fear and apprehension, and not merely logic. The mistake that we make when interviewing them is that we want them to give perfect answers. Answers that are already in your mind and answers that they have to guess. Answers that are beneficial to you and not necessarily to them. Should they make one mistake, regard this as one part of the whole, and not the whole itself.
You suddenly regard this as a weakness, blindside yourself, and base your decision on the weakness instead of exposing the strengths.
More of these weaknesses and ‘wrong’ answers have a lot to do with character or personality and thus overlooking the candidates skills and experience.
Start looking at it from a different perspective. Start making decisions based on the whole person and all the answers. Start concentrating your interview questions on positive, probing questions instead of trick ‘caught you out’ questions.
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