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Interview Mastery

Better interviews for employers, recruiters and advisers, from planning and questioning to scoring and feedback.

Avoiding Interview Bias

Interview bias is one of the quickest ways to turn a promising process into an unreliable one. A candidate can be judged on confidence, similarity to the interviewer, first impr...

avoiding interview bias

Behavioural Interviewing

Behavioural interviewing helps recruiters, employers and careers advisers move beyond polished answers and into evidence. Instead of asking candidates what they would do in theo...

behavioural interviewing

Competency Interviewing

Competency interviewing helps recruiters, employers and careers advisers move beyond polished answers and assess how a candidate has actually behaved in real situations. Used we...

competency interviewing

Follow-up Questions that Matter

A strong interview answer can still tell you very little. Candidates rehearse examples, learn the language of competency frameworks and often arrive with polished stories that s...

follow-up questions that matter

Giving Constructive Feedback

Constructive feedback is one of the most useful parts of the recruitment process, but it is also one of the easiest to get wrong. Too vague, and candidates learn nothing. Too de...

giving constructive feedback

Listening More Than Talking

Strong interviewers do not win by filling every silence. They win by gathering clear, job-relevant evidence and helping candidates show how they think, work and solve problems. ...

listening more than talking

Planning Better Interviews

Good interviews do not happen by accident. When recruiters, employers and careers advisers plan better interviews, they get clearer evidence, fairer comparisons and fewer wasted...

planning better interviews

Reading Evidence Instead of Body Language

Interviewers often over-read posture, eye contact or confidence and miss the evidence that actually predicts performance. That creates avoidable bias, especially when candidates...

reading evidence instead of body language

Situational Questions

Situational questions ask candidates how they would handle a realistic work scenario, such as a difficult customer, a missed deadline or a team disagreement. Used well, they rev...

situational questions

Structured Interview Scoring

Structured interview scoring helps recruiters, employers and careers advisers compare candidates on the same evidence rather than on memory, instinct or who made the best small ...

structured interview scoring

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