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How to run a better first round.

Practical guides for hiring teams: writing screening questions, building scorecards, setting pass marks, running high-volume and campus hiring, and hiring fairly.

Screening basics

  • What AI pre-screening is, and when to use itA first-round interview that candidates take on their own time, written up so your team starts with evidence. Here’s how it works and where it fits.6 min read
  • One-way video or an AI interviewBoth let candidates answer on their own time. One records answers to fixed prompts, the other holds a conversation. Here’s how to choose.6 min read
  • How AI interview scoring worksFrom transcript to skill scores to a place in your review list, with a worked example and an honest look at where scoring goes wrong.7 min read
  • Replace the phone screen. Keep what it was forThe phone screen does a few useful things badly and slowly. Here’s how to keep the useful parts and hand the rest to an async first round.7 min read
  • What a first round is forRound one answers one question: is this person worth an hour of your team’s time? Here’s how to ask it well, and what to leave for later.6 min read

Interview design

  • Turn a job description into an interviewYour job description already holds most of a first-round interview. Here’s how to pull it out in about ten minutes, with a worked example.7 min read
  • Write questions that separate candidatesA good screening question produces an answer you can judge. Here’s how to write them, with a dozen before-and-after examples and a template to copy.7 min read
  • Use knockouts for hard requirements onlyA knockout question rules out candidates who can’t meet a genuine requirement of the job. Used carelessly, it rules out people you wanted.6 min read
  • Decide what good looks like firstA scorecard lists the skills you’re screening for, the level you expect and how much each counts, with plain descriptions of each score band.7 min read
  • Draw the line, then check itA pass mark decides who you read first. Pick a sensible starting number, calibrate it on your first candidates, and keep checking below the line.6 min read
  • Ask everyone the same questionsA structured interview uses the same questions, in the same order, scored the same way for every candidate. Here’s what that involves and how to run one.6 min read

Playbooks

  • Find the days you’re losingHiring rarely takes long because the work is hard. It takes long because work waits. Here’s how to find the waits and cut them.7 min read
  • Fill forty seats without losing a monthA week-by-week plan for hiring many people for the same role, starting from the number of seats and working backwards.7 min read
  • Run a campus drive your team can keep up withWhat to do in the weeks before a campus drive, on the day, and in the week after, so good graduates don’t slip away.7 min read

Candidates

  • Ask the question a script can’t answerRehearsed and AI-generated answers have tells, but so do nervous people. Here’s how to tell them apart with follow-ups, and when not to worry.6 min read
  • Tell candidates it’s AI, and tell them earlyWhat to say about an AI interview, where to say it, and how to answer the questions candidates actually ask.6 min read
  • Design an interview people finishThe choices that decide whether candidates complete an async interview, and how to find out where they give up.7 min read

Fairness and law

  • Screen in the language of the jobHow to run a first round in Hindi, write clear questions, accept Hinglish, and review the results fairly when your team works in English.6 min read
  • Shortlist on evidence, the same way every timeA five-step process for deciding who moves forward after a first round, and how to show your working.7 min read
  • The rules for AI in hiring, as of September 2026Who each major law covers, what it asks of employers and when it applies, with a practical checklist for teams using AI interviews. Not legal advice.10 min read

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