Whether you are hiring for a HR Manager/Director position, or interviewing to become one, you want the same thing:

-If you are hiring - you don't want to hire a dud.

-If you are interviewing - you don't want to be perceieved as a dud.

See the synergy?  Nobody wants to be the dud.  Funny how things seem to work out...

To that end, my most recent Workforce article is up to help you with the interviewing process for an HR spot.  I'm taking a shot at the best behavioral questions to separate the players from the pretenders in the HR Manager/Director space.

Take a look and let me know what you think.  If you flame, just remember - I'm limited to around 1,000 words in the column, so I gotta make choices... You can always tell me what your top 5 Behavioral questions would be...