Research has found that using a standardized and structured interview format will give much more accurate results than an unformal one in consistently finding the best candidates.

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Preparation is key. Your interview questions should give the applicant a chance to shine, as well as show what's in it for them to work at your organization

Mix and match any of these job interview questions to help you select the right Millennial for your next job opening. Try to include at least a few that reveal soft skills that young people sometimes lack:

#1. What have you done in the past that will help you succeed in this role?

This is a great opening question and can open to a wide variety of responses. Younger Millennials may not have a great deal of work experience, but it can reveal their ability to construct and organise an argument from transferrable experiences.

It is also great in showing the candidate you respect their history, as little as it may be at this stage in their career. You can even probe further for qualifications not in resumes, key learning points from problem solving or what they discovered about themselves from taking psychometric tests.

#2. Have you ever had to change your communication style to pass on similar information to different groups?

Adding to the general demeanour they communicate; this question directly gets at their communication skills and ability to adapt communication of complex ideas to different audiences.

Candidates responding well to this question will have high Verbal Reasoning ability.

#3. Have you ever narrowly missed out on an award or promotion you thought you were going to get? How did you react?

Millennials are used to winning a lot of awards – but also a lot of participation awards. This question will reveal how they handle it when things don’t go their
way and their determination to bounce back.

#4. Describe a time when you had to rapidly learn some new information and apply this to achieve an objective or solve a problem.

This is a good question to probe at a candidates’ Logical Reasoning skills. Logical Reasoning refers to the ability to pick up trends and patterns within data and to apply these patterns in problem solving.
It can also provide an indication as to how well the candidate is able to work with strategic ideas and intangible concepts.

#5. How do you like to receive feedback? 

Usually Millennials prefer feedback on the fly. The goal of this question is to point out that they can expect to hear things they don’t want to hear. Some job seekers may have difficulty answering this question.

Rather than moving on, you can be more specific and ask for an example of a time they received a test score that was lower than expected.

#6. Can you describe a project or situation where you had to make several difficult decisions? What process did you take in order
to arrive at your decision? 

Not enough thought goes into the thought process from which decisions are made. This reveals Millennial thinking and the ability to take a systematic approach to data analysis and to make sound well-thought out plans.

#7. Tell me about a time you had to handle a difficult person, whether in person or through the phone? 

It’s quite common for Millennials to graduate from university having spent the majority of the time talking to friends through calls and text.

When it comes to interacting with people in the real world, and difficult ones at that it can be a challenge for some. Their answer will help reveal their cohesion
int a diverse work environment.

#8. What do you want to accomplish in this job? 

This is a great question to wrap things up. In asking this question you’re getting at how long a job seeker plans to stay with your organization and how they plan to achieve their career goals with your organization.

In return you can offer a high-level career roadmap detailing where they’ll start, how fast they can expect to develop and the mentoring they will receive.