Hiring Well: Interviewing From the Other Side of the Table

By the end

What you'll build

• Explain in plain words what an interview can and cannot predict, and name two specific reasons an unstructured conversation performs badly.
• Write a role definition of six lines that states the work, the first ninety days, the bar and the constraints before any advert is drafted.
• Separate must-haves from nice-to-haves in advance, and justify each must-have by the work it is needed for.
• Build an anchored scoring scale where each level is described in observable behaviour rather than in adjectives.
• Design a structured interview loop in which every must-have is assessed once, by a named interviewer, using a fixed question set.
• Ask a behavioural question that produces one specific incident, and probe a vague answer with three escalating follow-ups.
• Design a work sample that is short, proportionate to the role, and scored against a published rubric.
• Take interview notes that separate what was said from what you concluded, and score independently before any discussion.
• Run a debrief that surfaces disagreement, names the evidence behind each score, and reaches a decision without averaging.
• Produce a complete structured interview kit for one real role, and a dated plan to review the decision a year later.

Curriculum

What's inside

7 modules · 48 lessons

1. 01

   What an Interview Can and Cannot Do

   6 lessons
   • Start Here: What This Course Is, and What It Is Not
   • The Honest Ceiling: What an Interview Predicts
   • Why the Unstructured Interview Feels Right and Goes Wrong
   • The Vocabulary of Selectionword power
   • Check: Limits, Claims and Structurequiz
   • + 1 more lesson
2. 02

   Define the Role Before You Advertise It

   7 lessons
   • A Vacancy Is Not a Role Definition
   • The Role Definition in Six Lines
   • Setting the Bar: Must-Have, Nice-to-Have, Disqualifier
   • Must-Have, Nice-to-Have, or Drop It?fill blank
   • Write the Role Definition for Your Rolewriting lab
   • + 2 more lessons
3. 03

   Design the Interview, Not Just the Questions

   6 lessons
   • What 'Structured' Actually Means
   • The Anchored Scale
   • One Signal, One Stage — and Where the Minutes Go
   • Build Your Scorecard and Coverage Matrixwriting lab
   • Rehearse the Shapetimer
   • + 1 more lesson
4. 04

   Questions That Get Evidence

   7 lessons
   • The Behavioural Question, Taken Apart
   • The Rehearsed Story, and the Question That Gets Under It
   • The Probe Ladder
   • Probe Phrases You Can Say Out Loudflashcard sr
   • Rewrite Five Weak Questionswriting lab
   • + 2 more lessons
5. 05

   Work Samples, Notes and Independent Scoring

   7 lessons
   • The Work Sample: The Biggest Single Upgrade
   • Proportionate, and Paid When It Is Not Short
   • Design a Work Sample for Your Rolewriting lab
   • Notes That Survive a Debrief
   • Score Against the Anchorsfill blank
   • + 2 more lessons
6. 06

   Bias, the Debrief and the Decision

   7 lessons
   • Bias Made Concrete: Affinity, Halo and Similarity
   • The Polished-Candidate Effect
   • Where Bias Enters Before the Room
   • Interviewing Across Languages Without Scoring Fluency
   • The Debrief That Surfaces Disagreement
   • + 2 more lessons
7. 07

   Offer, Rejection and the Kit You Keep

   8 lessons
   • Internal Candidates, and the Day After You Say No
   • Reference Conversations Worth Having
   • The Offer Conversation: Honest Scope, Honest Expectations
   • Say the Unattractive Part Out Loudspeaking lab
   • Rejecting People Decently, at Scale
   • + 3 more lessons

The shape of it

How this course works