Welcome to another podcast episode with Paula Maidens. The host, Paula Maidens discusses the importance of strategic hiring in the new year and shares five strategic interview questions to ensure you make the right choices for your team.

Highlights of this episode:

• The threefold purpose of an interview and why this needs to be kept front of mind when structuring and executing your interview
• Why strategic interview questions are needed to gain valuable insights you don’t want to miss
• The importance of starting with an easy, familiar question to help both parties ease into the conversation.
• Understanding the candidate's grasp of the role and their research into the company and why this is a valuable insight you don’t want to miss.
• How certain questions will allow for a deeper understanding of the candidate's time management approach, preferences, and compatibility with the role.
• How to understand a candidate's expectations from a managerial perspective and why you don’t want to miss this at the interview.

In this episode, Paula encourages essential business owners, CEOs and key decision makers to focus on the quality of interview questions for successful hires, invites listeners to share and highlight hiring goals for 2024, and promises to return with a new episode next week.