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Design the Interview Before You Meet Anyone

A bad hire is a design failure, and every design decision that matters is made before a candidate is in the building.

6 parts · about 42 minutes end to end · Read in order, start to finish

  1. 1 Antique engraving illustration. A round table with a compass rose inlaid at its center, radiating lines pointing outward to each seat, indicating that every direction of the hiring journey has its own bearing from one shared point. How to Get the Most Out of Your Hiring Strategy Meeting The Hiring Strategy Meeting builds a playbook before the first conversation: attraction strategy, candidate experience, interview design, and who makes the call. Interview Design & Strategy · 4 min · Mar 2025
  2. 2 Antique engraving illustration. A pair of drafting dividers standing open above a rolled plan and a try square on a drafting table. How to Design an Interview Process Before You Meet the Candidate A bad hire is a design failure, not a candidate failure. Eight steps for designing an interview process you own, before the candidate ever walks in. Interview Design & Strategy · 9 min · Jul 2026
  3. 3 Antique engraving illustration. A surveyor's plumb bob hanging centered between two rows of diverging lane markers chalked on stone, each lane veering into the other. Interviews Without Roles Are Freeways Without Lanes Team interviews without defined roles produce freeway chaos: overlapping questions, missed areas, a confused candidate. Assign lanes and the whole process sharpens. Interview Design & Strategy · 1 min · Dec 2024
  4. 4 Antique engraving illustration. An open folio of blueprints unrolled on a drafting table, a single drafting pencil laid across the top sheet, ready for a first mark. How to Train a New Interviewer for Their First Interview New interviewers need more than a list of questions. They need a defined goal, clear success criteria, and a structured debrief format before they walk in. Interview Design & Strategy · 3 min · Dec 2025
  5. 5 Antique engraving of a mariner's sounding lead on a coiled line descending into deep water Deep Waters: How to Design Scenario Interviews That Show You How a Candidate Thinks Rehearsed answers tell you how well a candidate interviews. A scenario interview puts them in deep water, where you watch them think. Five design principles for building one. Interview Design & Strategy · 6 min · Jul 2026
  6. 6 Antique engraving illustration. An antique phonograph horn beside a long unfurled scribe's transcript scroll capturing a conversation between two empty chairs. Record Every Interview Recording and transcribing interviews turns hiring from a memory-dependent gamble into measurable, auditable risk reduction for construction leadership. Interview Design & Strategy · 19 min · Apr 2026
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