Staffing Manager Mock Interview
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Question 21 of 35
What was the most useful criticism you ever received during your career in recruitment and staffing?
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Amy Hagan is an HR Executive turned HR Consultant. She has 20+ years of experience in human resources, including HR Specialist for the US Department of Defense.
By asking this question, your interviewer wants to ensure you can receive and implement positive feedback if hired as their next Staffing Manager. If asked this question during your interviewer, there's a good chance that you could be working with some hard to please hiring managers. To have success with them in this role, you will need to have the ability to take their criticism and run with it. Ensure you use an example where the feedback helped correct a process, and you could implement the feedback to make a positive change.
Amy Hagan is an HR Executive turned HR Consultant. She has 20+ years of experience in human resources, including HR Specialist for the US Department of Defense.
"I value all feedback that I receive and really treat it as a gift. There is one time that stands out in my mind. I was new to the recruitment field, and I made an offer that upset an applicant. I did not have patience with the applicant because I felt they were disrespectful about the offer. My boss called me into her office and explained that applicants often have a number in mind for a salary, even if they do not share that with the hiring team. She encouraged me to use open-ended questions with the applicant to find out what the applicant really needed. To this day, I continue to use open-ended questions during salary negotiations with all of my applicants ."
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