The potential consequences of ineffective interviews might be any of the following:

• Failure to identify any suitable candidates for a job.
• Offering the job to an individual who is not suitable, and who will do the job badly.
• Offering the job to someone who is adequate, but not the best from amongst all the applicants who were interviewed.
• Offering the job to the best candidate, who rejects the offer and takes a job somewhere else.

In strategic terms, ineffective interviewing means that the organisation will not have the best quality of employees that it would have had if its selection processes had been more effective. This will affect the efficiency and effectiveness of the organisation in the long term, and reduce its competitiveness.