Simple recruiting with great effectMichael Koefoed2022-07-04T10:29:08+02:00

First question to the candidate: “What makes you happy?”

The job interview is one of the most important phases in recruitment. Dialoogle’s picture cards can provide a shortcut to obtain a useful overall impression of the professional and social competences of a job candidate – and thus reduce the risk of recruiting the wrong person. When a candidate answers your questions with the help of picture cards, you will quickly obtain insight into the way this person thinks and reflects. The interview easily develops and allows you to discover the candidate’s inner motivation and drive.

Dialoogle’s picture cards support the brain in thinking and reflecting and help the candidate to communicate clearly and distinctly with both brain and heart. For the candidate who knows the answer to your question, reflections will deal with finding a picture to illustrate and clarify the answer. For the candidate who needs to reflect to find an answer, the picture cards will make reflection easier in a safe and informal atmosphere.

This makes Dialoogle a unique and effective recruitment tool.

Refleksion

Dialoogles billeder er skabt til at få os til at reflektere. Når vi reflekterer over noget, gennemtænker vi det grundigt og finder nye nuancer og løsninger.

Flow

Flow er en fordybelsestilstand, hvor vi er så opslugte af aktiviteterne i et øvelsesforløb, at tidsfornemmelsen forsvinder og erstattes af dyb koncentration.

Motivation

Med Dialoogles billedkort kan vi identificere og beskrive vores motivation. Med den rette motivation kan vi opnå næsten hvad som helst.

An easy start

After the introduction, ask the candidate to go to the picture cards that you have spread out and find a picture of what you wish as the starting point for the job interview – e.g.:

What makes you happy?
What motivates you most about this job?
What do you find most important in your daily life?

Once the candidate has selected a picture, she/he tells you about his choice. Most people are amazed at how easy and intuitive it feels to speak from the picture cards. The pictures invite people to use metaphors, symbols and examples. This is likely to increase mutual understanding and smoothly take the conversation a layer or two deeper.

You can choose to take another round with the picture cards and ask – e.g.:

What is the biggest challenge you have met?
What will be your biggest challenge in this job?
… or something completely different.

Give the job interview a much-needed boost

The pictures create new energy and make it easier to voice criticism in a constructive way because they provide reassurance. They bring emotions into light and take conversations in different directions than we usually go. The interviews become more unpredictable and more entertaining – but also significantly more rewarding.

Head of the Secretariat at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School (CBS)

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In collaboration, a unique conversation process is created
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Participants are trained in picture card techniques for good conversations.
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  6 exercises in an e-booklet (PDF)
  
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6 exercises in an e-booklet (PDF)

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The organisation

Seven picture series – in both Magnum and Pocket sizes

HR and departments

Five Pocket Sets

1 Magnum Set

A kick-start

1 Pocket Set

At first some of us found it a little bit difficult and odd to pick some pictures to talk from. But it’s not like that anymore. Now most of us have discovered that you can actually use any picture card to express whatever you find important.

Team leader at a bus company

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Recruiting exercise

Understand how job candidates think and what drives them

Lay a Pocket Set on the table.
Ask the candidate to choose four picture cards that symbolise:
• why she/he has applied for the position
• a personal strength
• a challenge overcome
• a dream for the future
Once the candidate has chosen her/his picture cards, ask her/him to tell you about her/his choices. Ask the candidate elaborating questions about her/his reflections and motivation.
Describe a challenge with a picture card and invite the candidate to reflect on how the challenge could be tackled. E.g. high sickness absence, inefficient employees, a conflict situation, a dissatisfied customer, or sales optimisation.

Test a candidate’s ability to gain overview

Dr. Roger Greenaway is a specialist in experimental learning and Active Reviewing, which he teaches all over the world. With a group of HR and executive search professionals he was working to find efficient methods to evaluate whether a person is able to see the big picture, which is considered to be one of the most important qualities of a good leader. The group tested 14 different evaluation tools and found Dialoogle to be one of the best.

Using Dr. Greenaway’s Dialoogle method the HR and executive search professionals concluded that persons who find it difficult to change the linear flow of their story will also find it difficult to broaden their perspective. The other way around: if people can easily lay out their cards in different ways and present new angles and perspectives of their story, they will also find it easy to gain an overview and spot action patterns.

Dr. Greenaway’s method

Test a candidate’s ability to gain overview

Spread out a Magnum Set on the floor. Ask the focus person to choose five cards, from which she or he can tell you about a work challenge successfully overcome.
Ask the focus person to experiment with the story by shuffling the cards and telling the story in a different way. As a facilitator you can ask supportive questions such as:

Could one of the pictures be more important than the rest?
Could some of the pictures be covering others?
Maybe one of the pictures is just on the verge of your consciousness?
Maybe you can place one of the pictures further away or facing downwards?
Could some of the pictures be grouped together?
Could some of the pictures be moving?
Could some of the pictures be connected with each other in different places?

How Dialoogle works in job interviews

Do you want to make your interviews with potential job candidates more relaxed but also more effective, Dialoogle will be a great tool for you. The process is highly intuitive for most people. But we can also help you to get easily started.

There is a myriad of different human characteristics that may be important when it comes to how suitable a candidate is for a particular job. Results-oriented, consensus seeking, introvert, extrovert, reflective, creative, spontaneous and many more. – All these features you can identify by using pictures that make job candidates reflect and make it easy for them to talk with both their brains and their hearts.

When you use picture cards in conversations, they become a common visual reference that promotes mutual understanding. You will be overwhelmed by how the pictures can clarify, surprise, inspire and make conversations more fruitful. It also applies to job interviews, and the better you know your future employee, the better you will recruit.

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