When an interviewer says, "I didn’t click"
Respond productively when affinity language enters a hiring discussion.
Chris C Interviewer Chris is not trying to be unfair; Chris is trying to express discomfort with words the room will likely over-weight. If the team cannot translate the feeling, the feeling may quietly become policy. Respect the feeling, test the criterion Affinity is information about comfort. It is not automatically information about job fit. A debrief should ask whether the concern maps to a competency, appears in the structured evidence, and matters for the role. Turn 1 Receive the comment Chris says, "I know this sounds fuzzy, but I just didn’t click with her the way I clicked with…
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