Sort of unrelated, but I used to get called by the next county south of us. Their HR manual required that they have someone on the interview committee that was from outside the department. Since we ran a lot of the same stuff, they'd call me up to help them do interviews. I'd usually score a free lunch out of it.
They were hiring new radio techs. Amazing how many 'radio techs' experience consisted of putting a CB radio in their buddy's truck.
Nice part was that I could periodically snipe some of the guys they didn't hire. I picked up a retired Pacific Bell guy for our group about 10 years ago, and he's still working for us. Unfortunately he was one of the last good bell system guys in the area. At least I've got him on our team.
Even more unrelated,
Most fun I ever had on an interview committee was when I got sucked into being on the team to hire some new customer service reps.
Was interviewing one lady in particular. About half way through the interview I realized that she was about 10 times more relaxed than I was. No drugs, just a genuine nice lady that knew her stuff and knew that getting uptight at the interview wasn't going to make it any easier We hired her and she did a great job.
One other person we were hiring was a young lady fresh out of college. We were working through the routine questions while I was looking at her application. I noticed that it had Burmese as a secondary language. Now, I know precisely zero Burmese and wouldn't have known what she was saying, but I stopped, looked at her, and said "OK, Say something in Burmese". She got wide eyed! Sort of looked at me for a second, then rattled something off. I told her I had no idea what she was saying, but just wanted to check. I asked her what she did say. She said "It's what my grandmother always said to me, "You look hungry."." We had a good laugh about that. She relaxed after that and finished the interview. We hired her as a customer service rep. That was probably 12 years ago. She's now in upper management and doing a great job, and pretty much liked by everyone in the department. Honestly one of the nicest people I know.
Important take away was that people get nervous in the interviews. Getting them to loosen up and relax does wonders. That's usually when the real person comes out.