Solving the Hiring Drought Inside an Essential Healthcare Profession (Part 2)
The precious interview questions that reveal your next hire
What is the best gift you could give a pharmacist? No, not a sign with flashing lights showing people where the Q-tips are. As relevant as that would be, this gift would not be something materialistic. It would however solve a burning problem and offer years of tangible purpose.
The gift is a person
People are any workplace’s most valuable asset. They are what make it all tick. To run a great pharmacy, we need great people. To find great people, we need to interview like a champion. Knowing that executing a great interview is a skill and hiring the right person is essential, it is worth time analyzing what interview questions pull out the most value in the least amount of time and what red flags we cannot afford to miss.
First, what are the golden questions that give us tremendous insight into turning a stranger into someone we can read? I first like to start with a broad question that anyone without pharmacy experience can fake if they have a little imagination, “Why pharmacy?”
This question shows you what they already know about pharmacy as proof that they put thought into consciously applying here…
