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What Happens: The interviewer asks about a specific skill or industry tool, and the candidate responds with either: “I may have seen that before,” or “I am pretty sure this is how it works.”
What It Means: The candidate is not 100 percent confident in his answer and does not have the personal and professional experience you are asking for. If the candidate did possess these skills, the candidate would have answered with definitive words such as, “I do,” “I know,” or “I have.”
What to Do: Prompt them to clarify his their response by asking, “Have you actually done this before or used this tool in the past?” Specifically, ask them to cite a concrete example of how they have successfully used the tools in his past work
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