The EQ Interview: Finding Employees with High Emotional Intelligence

The organizations have made every effort to hire people involved, especially leaders with skills to recognize talent, hire them and keep them in business, and now more than ever these powers are necessary to overcome tense moments, and uncertain scenarios. Before those hiring happen so empirical, but Adele Lynn brings us concrete and specific ways to help all who need to find the right people, with suggestions of objective questions to be put to the applicants. This would also help the interviewers in their self-development and knowledge. The timing of the interview is unique and should be viewed not as a routine task, which seeks to fit the candidate profile within the tried, but to really listen this person who is in front of us, and try to understand her/him, with experiences, dreams, successes, failures, stories of life, especially values, and then we can see if this person could contribute to the organization and where he/she could feel performed with the challenges that he/she will face.

The EQ Interview is a superb resource for a Human Resources department or hiring manager. This book goes beyond emotional intelligence, it is an easy to use tool to hire for attitude. In short, easy to understand sections, Adele Lynn outlines what a particular competency is, why it is important, specific questions to ask and what to look for in an answer. You can easily jump to a section you are interested in and after 10 or 15 minutes have a good sense of what to look for and how to do it. As a recruiter and trainer, I highly recommend this book.

Outstanding resource for hiring people. Since the research shows that emotional intelligence is important to job success, screening for EQ is a must for selecting the right candidate for the job. The author clearly explains each Eq competency using workplace examples, then she gives specific questions to ask and offers help in interpreting the answers. I also like the fact that she uses behavior based interviewing, but takes it a step further. I found the section on how to spot an EQ fraud helpful too. I would highly recommend this book.

This book is an outstanding resource for anyone who has to hire others. I particularly liked the sections on self-awareness and self-management. The questions give the interviewer very specific questions to ask. Also, at the end of each section, the author summarizes what to look for in the answers. The book is well organized too. The section in the back allows for easy reference of the questions pertaining to the various areas of emotional intelligence. I would definitely recommend it.

This book gets to the heart of interviewing for emotional intelligence. The questions about understanding one's impact in the workplace are extremely important. I will definitely be incorporating the concepts into our hiring process.