No matter how much experience you have, interviewing potential new hires is hard. Assessing a baseline level of skill or intelligence isn’t that tough, it’s determining the intangible “cultural fit” aspect that is so difficult. After all, how well can you really get to know someone when they’re on their best behavior, and you’re conducting an interview? Subscribe Now: Forbes Entrepreneurs & Small Business Newsletters All the trials and triumphs of building a business – delivered to your inbox. There are, of course, countless strategies and clever questions that you can employ to try and get a feel for the true nature of the person you’re interviewing, but I’ve never had much luck with them. Instead, I’ve learned to look for a single trait that tells me whether or not a person is going to be a good fit: a sense of humor. Humor may seem like a strange thing to look for when hiring, but I’ve found that it is an excellent indicator of a person’s inte