What Works: CIDS Interview Works

CIDS Interview works. If you're looking for a proven methodology for hiring A players and not hiring C players. We've used it 4 times. And 4 times it's generated these results: 3 A-Players hired; 1 C-player not hired.

What is a CIDS Interview? CIDS stands for Chronological In-Depth Structured. A CIDS Interview is a Chronological In-Depth Structured Interview. It's explained first in the book by Brad Smart, PhD: Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best People.

In Topgrading, Dr. Smart claims using the CIDS Interview can boost your hiring success rate from 50 percent to 90 percent or better. Our results are better, much better.

And these better results mean greater longevity with each person hired, greater consistency in our operations, a culture of steady incremental improvements, operational cost-savings from rising skillsets and the resulting improved performances, greater passion and engagement with everyone in the company, greater loyalty and happiness with our customers (that help lower our advertising costs), lower employee turnover, and...better cash flows.

If you want better cash flows, hire better people or coach your people into being A-Players.

The CIDS Interview requires a time commitment of up to 6 hours. We found it was more like 8. But then we also insure everyone in the company participates in the interview process. As it's name states, it's a chronological in-depth STRUCTURED survey. The structure of this chronological in-depth survey is provided in Dr. Smart's book:  The Smart Interviewer: Tools and Techniques for Hiring the Best. There he outlines not only the approach, but offers the text of the specific questions and when they should be asked, and insight into possible responses from your interview subjects. All provided great help.

You can also learn about TopGrading and the resources available to improve your cash flows with better people...at their website: www.smarttopgrading.com. We've sent customers to their day-long event. They bring back glowing reports of the power of this one-day event.

What Works? CIDS Interview Works.

Comments

[Mark Silver]

Thanks, Zane! I just ordered both books on your say-so. And I also appreciate the comment you left in my blog today- that had to do with this very question- or one step prior.