![]() ![]() (To make it more vivid and relevant, fancifully imagine interviewing animals and staff to join a circus):Ī: Chordata……etc., down through all the categories listed below, until the “interviewer” can positively confirm whether or not (s)he’s barking up the right dog, so to speak. The Linnaean category-tree involves the kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species categories that you learned in 9 th grade, forgot over the summer of that year, and that provide the paradigm framework for a “(bio)logical interview” like this 100% literally Linnaean-tree interview. Think of this kind of tree as a “category tree” that takes the interview from broad to narrower categories of information. Roughly speaking, most start with some very general or very specific question, in anticipation of and on analogy with some version of what I’ll call a “(bio)logical”, “Linnaean march” through the interview information and down a “Linnaean tree”.Īs we shall also see, although there are good reasons for using some pure form or mix of branching tree formats, there are times when we needn’t or really shouldn’t.īy “Linnaean tree” and “(bio)logical” Q&A, I broadly mean sequentially following up one request for information with another, but at a lower more “specific” (akin to “species”) level of the same basic category-much as the biological classification system created by Carl Linnaeus in 1757, and subsequently adopted by Darwin and accepted by everybody else with a degree in biology. There are many types of such top-down “tree” interview formats-approaches that should be distinguished from each other. (Various tree-interview formats shown here will be examined and compared below.) We are all familiar with patterns and Q&A scripts like this: Ask what projects the candidate managed, then ask about some of the details after that, maybe details about the details or ask for details of programming languages mastered and then for on-the-job experience using them.įollow up a question (and reply) with a “branch question”, as you make your way down (or up) and deeper into a “tree diagram” of possible replies from a job candidate. ![]() You’ve almost certainly used or been exposed to a “tree” question format in an interview, at least as part of the interview, if not as its sole or dominant format.īut, which of its many and quite distinct forms, if any, is best or at least useful in a specific interview situation and for a given interview objective?Įqually importantly, when is it better to switch to another tree or non-tree approach? ![]()
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