Structured interviews

Note: I'm not sure if structured interviews are the best for every situation. I need to think more about it. the information I present below is based on some initial research. I have mostly used unstructured interviews

unstructured interviews consistently receive the highest ratings for perceived effectiveness from hiring managers, dozens of studies have found them to be among the worst predictors of actual on-the-job performance ^[1]

A structured interview is where you follow a standardized list of questions and evaluate their responses against a set rubric.

Structured interviews have been shown to be twice as effective as unstructured interviews.

Preparing for a structured interview process:

1. Think about what you need the role to do
2. Refine those tasks into four or five key skills for the role
3. Create an interview/questions to evaluate each of those skills
4. Create a challenge or case study (see below)
5. Create a rubric to score each of those interviews
6. Train the interviewing team on the interviews and rubrics