How to conduct stress interview

1. Behaviors of stress interview

• Disagreement
• Conflict
• Contradictions
• Argument
• Hostility
• Pressure
• Aggression and intimidation
• Criticism

2. The ways to conduct a stress interview

• Doesn’t say anything for the first five or ten minutes of the interview.

• Challenges candidate by disagreeing with candidate’s answers.

• Pauses for a long time after listening to candidate’s response.

• Ridicules candidate’s background.

• Asking the same question several times, pretending not to understand answer.

• Being deliberately late and then keeps looking at his or her watch.

• Pretends to fall asleep.

• Ask uncomfortable questions such as “Why you get such low marks in graduation” or “Why you were fired from your previous job” to put candidate under pressure.

• Convey your aggressive behavior through your body language, facial expressions, or behavior and you will make candidate realize that candidate is responsible for it.

• Asking candidate a question whose answer candidate is not generally expected to know.

• Reading the paper when the candidate comes into the room.

• Asking a tough question right away, without even introducing himself.

• Reading the paper when the candidate comes into the room.

• Asking a tough question right away, without even introducing himself.

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