Dear HR Manager / Headhunter,
You always had many questions to ask candidate during a personal interview. But unless you made meticulous notes on the candidate’s text resume printout beforehand, you tend to forget ( to ask ), quite a few.
And, unfortunately, the text resume itself cannot answer your questions!
Whereas, a “Profiles”, not only raises relevant questions, our graphical / relational presentations, even answers most.
Listed below, are these questions that “Profiles” asks – and answers too!
Career History
• What is his total experience? Does this match with the experience required for our position/vacancy ?
• During this “total experience”, how many jobs has he changed ?
• Does he seem to be a “job-jumper” ?
• Does he seem to have stuck to the same organization for a long time? What could be the reason ?
• Does he seem to have stuck at the same “Designation – Level “ for a long time ? Was he “un-promotable” ?
• He seems to have got very frequent promotions /salary-raise. Does he come through as a “Fast Track”
Candidate ?
• Given his “Average/Longest/Minimum” tenure with the companies where he worked, how long can we expect him
• Given his “Average/Longest/Minimum” tenure with the companies where he worked, how long can we expect him
to stay with us
?
• He is in his current job for less than a year. Why is he keen to quit within such a short period?
• Is he plateauing ? i.e. rose very rapidly in early years but now seems to have slowed down.
• In terms of the size/turnover/reputation of the companies where he has worked, does he seem to have steadily
• He is in his current job for less than a year. Why is he keen to quit within such a short period?
• Is he plateauing ? i.e. rose very rapidly in early years but now seems to have slowed down.
• In terms of the size/turnover/reputation of the companies where he has worked, does he seem to have steadily
“progressed” ? Are there any reversals ? i.e.
leaving a large/organized company to join a small/family owned
company.
• Has he spent his entire career in one city or is he mobile ?
• Does his “Total Years of Experience” tally with his current age ? If not, does he seem to have “inflated” his
• Has he spent his entire career in one city or is he mobile ?
• Does his “Total Years of Experience” tally with his current age ? If not, does he seem to have “inflated” his
experience ? Or, he should have got 20 years of
experience by now, but graph shows only 12 years ! Has he
failed to “list” some “unfavorable” tenures ?
e.g.: where his services were terminated or where the service was
“temporary / contractual” ?
• Did any of the companies that he worked for, belong to his father/relative? If so, what was his designation/salary
• Did any of the companies that he worked for, belong to his father/relative? If so, what was his designation/salary
during such tenure? Was that commensurate with
his qualifications/experience?
• During his career, were there any periods of “self-employment” ? If so, has he listed those in his “Career History”
• During his career, were there any periods of “self-employment” ? If so, has he listed those in his “Career History”
section? What factors made him “start / give-up”
such self employment ?
Salary
• He seems to have picked-up a huge salary-jump, every time he changed jobs. What kind of salary-increase
Would he expect us to offer to motivate him to
change ? Can we afford ?
Would that upset a lot of our existing employees
and demotivate them ? Would we be upsetting the apple-cart ?
• Has his salary kept pace with his rise up the career ladder ? Is his salary lagging behind/ way ahead of a majority
of his co-professionals ? How does it compare
with similar professionals in our organization ?
• What seems to be his “trade-off” between
a) Salary
b) Designation Level ?
Would he be prepared to accept
. Same salary ( his current salary ), if offered a higher / better designation ?
. Same designation ( his current designation ), if offered a higher salary ?
• What seems to be his “trade-off” between
a) Salary
b) Designation Level ?
Would he be prepared to accept
. Same salary ( his current salary ), if offered a higher / better designation ?
. Same designation ( his current designation ), if offered a higher salary ?
Academic Inputs
• At what age did he pass
. SSC
. HSC
. Bachelor’s Degree
. Master’s Degree
Do these seem reasonable ?
• What no. of years did he take to pass
. Bachelor’s Degree
. Master’s Degree
Does he seem to have taken longer than stipulated period ? Could he have failed once – or more ?
• Were any of these qualifications obtained through “Correspondence – Course” ? or through “Part-time study” in
evenings ? If so, for how long ?
• What about the educational institutions/universities that he attended? Are these recognized/reputed/accredited
• What about the educational institutions/universities that he attended? Are these recognized/reputed/accredited
institutions?
• Why did he not pursue higher studies in the same institution/university ? Why did he have to go to another
• Why did he not pursue higher studies in the same institution/university ? Why did he have to go to another
state/country ?
• Is there an “overlap” between
. Completion of his education, and
. Start of his first job ?
If yes, how did he manage that ?
• If there is a substantial “gap” between
. Completion of his education and
. Start of his first job
Then, what did he do during that period ?
• He seems to have obtained more than one degree/diploma during the same year. How did he manage that ?
• Is there an “overlap” between
. Completion of his education, and
. Start of his first job ?
If yes, how did he manage that ?
• If there is a substantial “gap” between
. Completion of his education and
. Start of his first job
Then, what did he do during that period ?
• He seems to have obtained more than one degree/diploma during the same year. How did he manage that ?
Dear HR Manager,
Are there any questions that profiles fail to answer? If so, please send me an email. Who knows, we may manage to develop a better / different profiles that manage to answer your question!
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A Page from www.IndiaRecruiter.net
( now de-hosted ) dated 16
Nov 2007
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