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It doesn’t matter if you’re hiring an administrative assistant or a chief executive—the goal of every job interview is to get to know the candidate. This, of course, is easier said than done. When you’re conducting an in-person interview, you can easily engage the prospective employee in candid conversation. But when you’re remote, there are fewer opportunities. The key to revealing a candidate’s true colors is to get him or her talking, and when you’re interviewing virtually, there’s no better way to do that than by leading with this sentence:

“I’m really looking forward to our conversation and am excited to learn all about you, so I’d like to spend the next five minutes learning more about you and leave the last five minutes for you to learn more about us.”

What you’re proposing may seem simple, but it will accomplish three important objectives, the first being setting the expectation that the candidate should not only talk, but talk to fill the time. When they inevitably run out of rehearsed responses, the words they choose to use will speak volumes about what they’ll bring to your team.

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