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It's difficult to know how best to react to interviewees being stuck. If you leave them stuck, they may take it badly; if you redirect them, they may take it as
by microtherion 5y ago
It's difficult to know how best to react to interviewees being stuck. If you leave them stuck, they may take it badly; if you redirect them, they may take it as a sign that they "failed" this part of the interview.
I try to say something along the lines of "OK, I think it's time to move on to something else; in an interview situation, you sometimes go down a blind alley, but that does not really reflect on the real world, and I think I've seen enough to move on to the next subject."
- ska 5y agoThe latter is similar to the approach I take also - but tellingly also what I thought I was saying in the situation related about. I'm more careful with language now.
- microtherion 5y agoYes, and even if it _was_ in fact what you were saying, it may not have been the message that got through to them.