Interview techniques are changing and employers are searching for better questions and better ways to get past the prepared responses and get a proper sense of the person and how they would fit within the organisation. Interviewing a candidate over lunch is a great way to see a different side to someone. How they treat the staff, how comfortable they are with small talk, all the little things that can be revealed over a 60 minute lunch are brilliantly telling. Time well spent!
Is the person nice to the waiter? What do they order? Are they decisive? Greedy? Can they manage a knife and fork? More than that, what lunch has going for it is that it demands small talk, which is a much better way of getting to know someone than big talk. The big talk of the normal interview has a serious flaw: it can easily be gamed.
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