{"id":4461,"date":"2016-01-19T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T16:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=4461"},"modified":"2023-10-18T17:35:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T17:35:59","slug":"identify-top-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/ca\/blog\/identify-top-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Interview Questions to Help Identify Top Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Hiring top talent is tough, which is why, over time, most hiring managers develop their own system of interview techniques and questions to grill would-be employees.<\/p>\n

When it comes to specific interview questions, I\u2019ve got collections of them sitting in an Evernote file that I\u2019ve been carefully curating over time.<\/p>\n

While many of these questions may be considered mainstream, such as “Tell me about a time when\u2026\u201d or \u201cHow would you approach a situation where\u2026,” I do like to mix it up with a few abstract queries that I seem to ask with a fair bit of consistency.<\/p>\n

1. What\u2019s your superpower?<\/b><\/p>\n

I tend to see teams as a collection of super heroes, much like the Justice League<\/a> or the X-men<\/a>. Each team member brings his or her own unique set of skills: things they\u2019re simply better at than their peers. For example, someone might be a killer negotiator, while someone else is consummate solution or product expert. Someone might be outstanding in the deal qualification process, another may be adept at quickly connecting with executive stakeholders, and someone else may simply excel at being what I call \u201cthe best friend.”<\/p>\n

Regardless of what their superpower is, asking a candidate to describe it (or how his or her current manager would describe it) is a great technique for three reasons:<\/p>\n