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Practical guides for hiring teams.

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

Screening basics

  • What AI pre-screening is, and when to use itA first interview that candidates take on their own time. Software asks the questions and writes up the answers, so your team starts with evidence. Here’s how it works.6 min read
  • One-way video interviews vs AI interviewsBoth let candidates answer on their own time. One records answers to fixed questions. The other holds a conversation and asks follow-up questions. Here’s how to choose.6 min read
  • How AI interview scoring worksHow the transcript of an interview becomes a score for each skill, and how that decides where a candidate lands in your list. With a worked example and its limits.7 min read
  • How to replace phone screening callsPhone screening calls are slow and uneven, but they do some useful things. Here’s how to keep those and move the rest to an interview candidates take on their own time.7 min read
  • What a first interview should find outA first interview should answer one question: is this person worth an hour of your team’s time? Here’s how to find out fairly, and what to save for later.6 min read

Interview design

  • Turn a job description into an interviewYour job description already contains most of what a first interview needs to ask. Here’s how to turn it into one in about ten minutes, with a worked example.7 min read
  • How to write good screening questionsA good screening question gets an answer that shows whether the candidate has a skill you need. Here’s how to write them, with a dozen before-and-after examples and a template to copy.7 min read
  • Knockout questions: when and how to use themA 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
  • How to build a screening scorecardA scorecard lists the skills you’re screening for, the level you expect and how much each counts, with a short description of what answers sound like in each score range.7 min read
  • How to set a pass markA pass mark is the minimum score for a closer look. Pick a sensible starting number, adjust it after your first candidates, and keep checking those below it.6 min read
  • Structured interviews, explainedA 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

  • How to reduce time to hireHiring is rarely slow because the work is hard. It’s slow because tasks sit waiting for someone. Here’s how to find those delays and cut them.7 min read
  • How to hire many people at onceA week-by-week plan for hiring many people for the same job, starting from the number of people you need and working backwards.7 min read
  • How to run a campus hiring driveWhat 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

  • How to spot scripted or AI-written answersRehearsed 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
  • How to tell candidates about AI interviewsWhat to say about an AI interview, where to say it, and how to answer the questions candidates actually ask.6 min read
  • How to design an interview candidates finishThe choices that decide whether candidates finish an interview they take on their own, and how to find out where they give up.7 min read

Fairness and law

  • How to interview candidates in HindiHow to run a first interview in Hindi, write clear questions, accept Hinglish (a mix of Hindi and English), and review the results fairly when your team works in English.6 min read
  • How to shortlist candidates fairlyA five-step process for deciding who moves forward after a first interview, and how to keep a record of why.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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