{"id":12393,"date":"2026-04-28T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/?post_type=insights&#038;p=12393"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:09:23","slug":"when-interviews-fail-candidates","status":"publish","type":"insights","link":"https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/insights\/when-interviews-fail-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"When Interviews Fail Candidates: Question Your Questions Before You Dismiss Their Answers\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most interviews are\u00a0like\u00a0digging a hole.\u00a0Someone shows up with a call guide, works through it question by question, and measures success by how much ground they covered. They extract what they came for, file the notes, and move to debrief. Fast, efficient, and\u00a0almost entirely\u00a0beside the point.\u00a0Because the thing about digging a hole is this: you find what survives the shovel. And the most important things\u00a0rarely do.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The best interviewers&nbsp;don&#8217;t&nbsp;dig holes. They&nbsp;act like archaeologists and&nbsp;run excavations.&nbsp;The&nbsp;difference between those two approaches \u2014 in mindset, in method, in outcome \u2014 is one of the most underestimated variables in the entire hiring process.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Titus Talent Strategies,&nbsp;we&#8217;ve&nbsp;spent years coaching hiring teams, embedding with organizations, and running searches across industries. The single most consistent finding?&nbsp;<strong>Interview quality&nbsp;determines&nbsp;candidate performance far more than most hiring teams realize.<\/strong>&nbsp;Not candidate quality. Interview quality.&nbsp;The conditions the interviewer creates determine what the candidate&nbsp;is&nbsp;able to&nbsp;show.&nbsp;And most interviewers have never been trained to create the right conditions at all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Shovel vs. The Brush<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-anntarazevich-7299923-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12395\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6669946772822829;width:197px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-anntarazevich-7299923-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-anntarazevich-7299923-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-anntarazevich-7299923-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-anntarazevich-7299923-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-anntarazevich-7299923-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-anntarazevich-7299923-scaled.jpg 1706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>An archaeologist and someone digging a hole can both end up in the same trench, same depth, and same dirt, but yield completely different results.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hole-digger is\u00a0optimizing for\u00a0speed and coverage. They have a checklist. They move through it.\u00a0They&#8217;re\u00a0looking for confirmation if a candidate ticks the boxes,\u00a0and\u00a0they find exactly that, or they\u00a0don&#8217;t. What they\u00a0almost never\u00a0find is\u00a0what\u00a0wasn&#8217;t\u00a0on the checklist. The artifact\u00a0was two\u00a0inches to the left of where they were digging. The capability didn&#8217;t\u00a0surface because the question\u00a0didn&#8217;t create the right conditions for it to appear.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The archaeologist&nbsp;operates&nbsp;on an entirely&nbsp;different set&nbsp;of assumptions. They know that the site&nbsp;contains&nbsp;more than they can currently see. They know that how they approach the surface&nbsp;determines what survives the excavation intact. They read the terrain before they disturb it. They move methodically;&nbsp;not because&nbsp;they&#8217;re&nbsp;slow, but because they understand that forced extraction destroys the very thing&nbsp;they&#8217;re&nbsp;trying to find.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is the trained interviewer. Patient, purposeful, and deeply aware that the artifact breaks if you force it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/simonsinek.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Simon Sinek&#8217;s work on leadership<\/a>&nbsp;argues that&nbsp;<strong>the best leaders&nbsp;don&#8217;t&nbsp;demand performance;&nbsp;they create&nbsp;the environments&nbsp;in which performance naturally&nbsp;emerges.<\/strong>&nbsp;The same principle applies here. The best interviewers&nbsp;don&#8217;t&nbsp;extract answers.&nbsp;They build the conditions in which the right information rises to the surface on its own.&nbsp;And that requires a fundamentally different kind of preparation than memorizing a call guide.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What the Data Says About Interview Quality\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The hiring conversation in most organizations focuses&nbsp;almost entirely&nbsp;on candidate quality. The interviewer&nbsp;is treated&nbsp;as a neutral instrument;&nbsp;a camera, not a variable.&nbsp;That assumption is wrong, and&nbsp;the&nbsp;cost&nbsp;of it&nbsp;is high.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shrm.org\/topics-tools\/tools\/toolkits\/transform-interviewing-into-strategic-talent-selection\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SHRM research<\/a>&nbsp;consistently shows that structured, intentional interview processes outperform ad hoc ones in predicting job performance and reducing bias. But&nbsp;here&#8217;s&nbsp;the nuance most teams miss: structure in service of extraction produces data. Structure in the service of revelation produces insight. The call guide is a tool. What matters is the hands holding it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gallup.com\/workplace\/651650\/lasting-impact-exceptional-candidate-experiences.aspx\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gallup&#8217;s candidate experience research<\/a>&nbsp;is even more direct:&nbsp;<strong>44% of recently hired employees say their interview experience was the single greatest influence on their decision to accept an offer.<\/strong>&nbsp;Not&nbsp;compensation. Not the job title. The interview. Which means the interview&nbsp;isn&#8217;t&nbsp;just how you evaluate candidates;&nbsp;it&#8217;s&nbsp;how candidates decide whether to bring their full selves to the table in the first place.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a candidate senses&nbsp;they&#8217;re&nbsp;being processed rather than understood, they protect themselves. They give safe answers. They perform. And when candidates perform, you evaluate the performance \u2014 not the person underneath it.&nbsp;<strong>You hired the resume in conversational form. Not the human being who will show up to work.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/09\/the-best-leaders-ask-the-best-questions\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harvard Business Review<\/a>&nbsp;identifies&nbsp;the best leaders,&nbsp;and by extension the best interviewers,&nbsp;as those who ask better questions. Not&nbsp;harder&nbsp;questions. Better ones. Questions that create space rather than demand compliance. Questions that invite reasoning rather than recitation. That shift, from interrogation to genuine inquiry, is where extraction ends,&nbsp;and revelation begins.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Move&nbsp;From&nbsp;What to How<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-tima-miroshnichenko-5439375-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12396\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6670033515449245;width:202px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-tima-miroshnichenko-5439375-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-tima-miroshnichenko-5439375-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-tima-miroshnichenko-5439375-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-tima-miroshnichenko-5439375-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-tima-miroshnichenko-5439375-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-tima-miroshnichenko-5439375-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The most practical expression of the&nbsp;archaeologist&#8217;s&nbsp;mindset is a shift in the kind of questions&nbsp;being asked&nbsp;\u2014 specifically, the move from&nbsp;<em>what<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>how<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What<\/em>&nbsp;questions are&nbsp;resume&nbsp;conversations in&nbsp;disguise?&nbsp;They confirm&nbsp;experience. They gather facts. They tell you what someone has done. They are necessary,&nbsp;but they are the&nbsp;shovel. They move a lot of dirt. They rarely surface the artifact.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>How<\/em>&nbsp;questions are&nbsp;diagnostic.&nbsp;They reveal how someone thinks, how they lead, how&nbsp;they&#8217;d&nbsp;navigate the specific terrain of your role. They create space for a candidate to stop reciting and start reasoning. And the moment a candidate shifts from recitation to reasoning, the interview transforms. You stop&nbsp;seeing&nbsp;the performance. You start seeing the person.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This&nbsp;is the core of what trained interviewers do differently. They use&nbsp;<em>what<\/em>&nbsp;questions to&nbsp;establish&nbsp;context, and&nbsp;<em>how<\/em>&nbsp;questions to&nbsp;reveal capability. They know when to follow the script and when to set it down. They treat the call guide as scaffolding;&nbsp;useful for structure, not for truth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A Real Excavation, In Real Time<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s\u00a0what that looks like in practice: midway through a recent Titus search, a candidate was struggling.\u00a0Long-winded, difficulty landing key points, nerves compressing what the behavioral data suggested was a strong profile. The easy move,\u00a0and\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0always available,\u00a0was to wrap early. The internal assessment at that point:\u00a0<em>give him one more question, then likely call it.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, the lead interviewer made a deliberate choice. Set aside the call guide. Moved away from&nbsp;the&nbsp;initial&nbsp;competency-based&nbsp;<em>what<\/em>&nbsp;questions and toward role-specific&nbsp;<em>how<\/em>&nbsp;questions:&nbsp;how would you think about this challenge, how do you typically build trust with a new team, how would you approach the first ninety&nbsp;days.&nbsp;Tell me about the role you enjoyed the most; what made it so enjoyable?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The candidate changed.\u00a0Not because he became a different person,\u00a0but because the environment\u00a0changed\u00a0around him.\u00a0The questions created\u00a0room. The room\u00a0created safety. And safety is where real capability lives.\u00a0By the end of the call,\u00a0the remark was made,\u00a0<em>&#8220;This interview is like a period drama. It starts\u00a0slow, but before you know it,\u00a0you&#8217;re invested.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That candidate moved forward. He was right for the role. He just needed the right conditions to prove it. The difference between calling it at minute twenty-three and making a strong hire was not candidate quality. It was&nbsp;interviewer&nbsp;quality. It was the decision to pick up the brush instead of the shovel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Nervous vs. Wrong: The Most Expensive Confusion in Hiring<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-edmond-dantes-4343451-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12397\" style=\"width:201px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-edmond-dantes-4343451-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-edmond-dantes-4343451-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-edmond-dantes-4343451-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-edmond-dantes-4343451-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-edmond-dantes-4343451-1365x2048.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>One of the most consistently costly mistakes we see hiring teams make is treating nervousness as disqualifying.\u00a0Nervousness is a response to conditions. Capability lives underneath conditions. They are not the same\u00a0signal, and\u00a0treating them as interchangeable\u00a0costs\u00a0organizations\u00a0talent they never knew they had.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This&nbsp;is where behavioral science becomes genuinely useful,&nbsp;not as a post-interview scoring tool, but as a real-time interpretation guide.&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveindex.com\/learn\/basics\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Predictive Index<\/a>&nbsp;measures the natural behavioral drives that shape how someone communicates, makes decisions, and responds to pressure. A candidate with high Patience and Formality will open slowly and precisely. That rhythm can&nbsp;read&nbsp;as evasiveness or lack of confidence&nbsp;to&nbsp;an untrained interviewer. To a trained one,&nbsp;it&#8217;s&nbsp;a behavioral pattern;&nbsp;expected, readable, and entirely separate from the question of capability.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This&nbsp;is the archaeologist&#8217;s advantage.&nbsp;They&#8217;ve&nbsp;studied the terrain before they&nbsp;pick&nbsp;up the tool.&nbsp;They know what they&#8217;re likely to find, and they know how to read the surface before they disturb it.&nbsp;They&nbsp;don&#8217;t&nbsp;mistake the presentation of the artifact for the artifact itself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Titus, our&nbsp;<strong>Head, Heart, and Briefcase<\/strong>&nbsp;framework evaluates candidates across three dimensions: behavioral drive and cognitive approach (Head), motivational alignment and purpose (Heart), and technical competency and experience (Briefcase). But all three of those dimensions require an environment in which the candidate&nbsp;is settled&nbsp;enough to be themselves. A hole-digging interview surfaces the Briefcase at best. The Head and Heart \u2014 the dimensions&nbsp;most&nbsp;predictive of long-term&nbsp;fit, retention, and cultural contribution \u2014 only&nbsp;emerge&nbsp;when the conditions are right.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You cannot assess what the environment&nbsp;doesn&#8217;t&nbsp;allow to surface.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What Training an Interviewer Actually Means<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The implication of everything above is direct:&nbsp;<strong>interviewer training is not optional.<\/strong>&nbsp;It is not&nbsp;a nice-to-have. It is not something that improves with experience alone.&nbsp;It is&nbsp;a discipline,&nbsp;and it&nbsp;requires deliberate development.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most hiring managers have never&nbsp;been taught&nbsp;to interview.&nbsp;They&#8217;ve&nbsp;been handed a call guide and told to get going.&nbsp;That&#8217;s&nbsp;the equivalent of handing someone a trowel and calling them an archaeologist. The tool is not&nbsp;the training.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trained interviewers share a consistent set of instincts that go beyond question&nbsp;selection:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>They read the room before they read the guide.<\/strong>&nbsp;A&nbsp;long-winded&nbsp;answer&nbsp;isn&#8217;t&nbsp;automatically a red flag. It might be a behavioral pattern, a sign of nerves, or a signal that the question itself was the wrong entry point. Trained interviewers diagnose before they conclude.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>They know the difference between silence and absence.<\/strong>&nbsp;A candidate who takes a beat to answer&nbsp;isn&#8217;t&nbsp;necessarily uncertain. They might be precise. The trained interviewer holds space rather than filling it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>They use behavioral data before the interview, not just after.<\/strong>&nbsp;Predictive Index profiles inform how you approach a candidate in the room;&nbsp;what pace&nbsp;they&#8217;re&nbsp;likely to&nbsp;operate&nbsp;at, how they process under&nbsp;pressure, what&nbsp;kind of&nbsp;question is&nbsp;most likely to open them up. That context turns observation into understanding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>They hold the script loosely.<\/strong>&nbsp;The call guide is a starting point, not a ceiling. The most important interview moments often happen when an interviewer has the confidence and the training to follow the thread that matters most,&nbsp;even when&nbsp;it&#8217;s&nbsp;not on the page.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>They stay curious rather than&nbsp;evaluative.<\/strong>&nbsp;When candidates sense judgment, they protect themselves. When they sense genuine curiosity, they open.&nbsp;That shift in tone is one of the most powerful instruments an interviewer has, and it costs nothing except the willingness&nbsp;to&nbsp;actually be&nbsp;interested.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Interview Is Part of the Hire<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-cottonbro-5989926-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12398\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4992732765254069;width:278px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-cottonbro-5989926-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-cottonbro-5989926-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-cottonbro-5989926-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-cottonbro-5989926-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-cottonbro-5989926-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s&nbsp;a downstream consequence to interview quality that most organizations underestimate: the experience a candidate has in your interview shapes who they&nbsp;become as&nbsp;an&nbsp;employee,&nbsp;before they&#8217;ve&nbsp;even accepted the offer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gallup.com\/workplace\/651650\/lasting-impact-exceptional-candidate-experiences.aspx\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gallup research<\/a>&nbsp;shows&nbsp;that candidates who have&nbsp;exceptional&nbsp;interview experience are&nbsp;<strong>twice as likely to report that their job responsibilities matched what they&nbsp;were promised<\/strong>&nbsp;once they start. The interview sets expectations. It builds or erodes trust.&nbsp;It gives the candidate their first real signal of what your culture&nbsp;actually feels&nbsp;like from the inside.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An excavation says:\u00a0<em>We\u00a0take the time to find the real thing.<\/em>\u00a0A\u00a0hole\u00a0says:\u00a0<em>we move fast and hope for the best.<\/em>\u00a0Candidates remember which one they experienced. And in a talent market where employer brand travels further and faster than most organizations\u00a0realize,\u00a0that memory matters well beyond the hire.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Wrap Up<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The best interviewers are not the ones with the sharpest questions.&nbsp;They&#8217;re&nbsp;the ones who understand that the interview is an environment \u2014 and that the environment they create&nbsp;determines&nbsp;what the candidate&nbsp;is able to&nbsp;show.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hole-digger finds what survives the shovel.&nbsp;The archaeologist&nbsp;finds&nbsp;what was&nbsp;actually there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Train your interviewers to tell the difference. Equip them with the behavioral data to read what&nbsp;they&#8217;re&nbsp;seeing. Give them the confidence to set down the script when the excavation requires it. And build a process that treats every interview not as an extraction exercise, but as an act of careful, disciplined revelation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s&nbsp;where the best hires come from. Not the candidates who performed well under pressure. The ones whose real capability finally had&nbsp;the room&nbsp;to surface.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your organization is ready to bring more intention to how you hire,\u00a0from interview structure and behavioral benchmarking to Predictive Index alignment and full-process design,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/contact-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">let&#8217;s start a conversation<\/a>.\u00a0And if you want to understand how your current hiring process measures up, our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.titustalent.com\/talent-strategies\/talent-checkup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Talent Checkup<\/a>\u00a0is the right place to start.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":12394,"template":"","industry":[40],"solutions":[37],"insight_type":[16],"class_list":["post-12393","insights","type-insights","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","industry-all-industries","solutions-talent-strategies","insight_type-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>When Interviews Fail Candidates | Titus Talent Strategies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Great candidates don\u2019t fail interviews, poor questions do. 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