Don't talk too much when you interview a job candidate

For every top manager, one of the biggest chores is interviewing potential job candidates. It's not an easy task to find a connection with an unknown person who walks into your office. Mark Settle, the CIO of BMC Software, offers plenty of advice in a question and answer session with CIO magazine. One of his best pieces of advice is not to talk too much. Let the interviewee talk, and do not fill up the interview with your own words.

Ultimately, he says, a hiring manager is trying to learn plenty about a candidate during a job interview.

"Do I want to come in to work and go to meetings with this person every day, and do I think this person can cover my back and get done what I need them to get done to make me look good? I know that sounds Machiavellian," he said. "But subliminally, that is exactly what is going on [in the interviewer's mind]."

For more on interview techniques:
- see this CIO.com article

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