Yes, true. But why not just find out the applicant is useless with some interesting questions? Life's too short. I might be hit by a car tomorrowYou ask the simple questions to see if they've got some kind of brain in there and then you can get to the more direct stuff.
The 'Right Person' is definitely not going to be the person who cannot answer 'Can you give me an instance when you used your own initiative?'.
