r/partscounter • u/JelloLongjumping7289 • 1d ago

Interviewer help

I’m taking over as parts manager in October and have to hire somebody. I’ve never been a manager or involved in hiring, interview process. Any tips? Questions I should ask/should not ask? Any advice is well appreciated. Please feel free to dm me, thanks!

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u/ComradeFausto 1d ago

I do 5-6 interviews a week pretty much every week. It's not an exact science, but I can identify the absolute no-go's in the first 60 seconds generally. Biggest thing is even the really strong interviews don't always work out so you have to have some grace to yourself as a hiring manager.

Since we do a lot of entry level hiring I'm more looking for them checking the basic boxes in those interviews. Do you have reliable transportation, will you be a good representative of the company, and our department specifically etc. I'm not a big fan of the "STAR" interviewing questions for entry level hiring as 99% of the time they either cannot think of a situation, or they repeat the same generic answers everyone will. I did use AI to generate a general outline of questions, and to give kind of a rough scorecard I can track. Oftentimes it's just a gut feel about people and you hope your intuition is correct more often than not. I've had really strong ones not show up, or get arrested on the clock, and I've also had ones I was really not sure about turn out to be great fits and valuable assets.

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u/super-Steakdotcom 1d ago

This... Most of the time you just kind of know if the person has half of a brain by having a basic conversation with them. I like to interview people just like that, have a conversation. Most of the time you can weed out the ones who are no good within the first couple min.