Elon Musk: This is the question the Twitter boss asks every applicant at a job interview

How can you be sure you've made the right choice when you decide to take on a new employee? It's a question that haunts most recruiters, as the recruitment process can often be perilous and unpredictable. But for Elon Musk, it is not a problem: the billionaire has got his own technique for cutting short any form of doubt during a job interview.

The same question for every interview

As he revealed in 2017 at the World Government Summit, held every year in Dubai, the SpaceX and Tesla boss has developed a method over the years that enables him in particular to quickly detect liars, or those boasting about experiences they haven't actually had.

The method consists of a simple question to the candidate:

Tellme about some of the most difficult problems you've worked on and how you solved them.

According to Elon Musk, firmly established in the ranking of the world's richest personalities, this question blocks people who are talking about experiences they have never actually had.

Thepeople who have really solved the problem know exactly how they solved it (...) They know and can describe the small details.

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The ability to argue a case during an interview is essential

And it's precisely these little details that Elon Musk pays attention to. The idea of the man perceived by the general public as an inventor is that someone who makes a false statement in a job interview won't be able to make a convincing case. That's why he wants to hear candidates talk about how they solved a tricky problem, step by step.

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This article has been translated from Gentside FR.

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