Hiring Manager Interview Model
Hiring Manager Interview Model
Objective
To understand why the candidate made certain career decisions
To understand how the candidate made certain career decisions
To understand what role specific (ie technical or leadership) qualities this candidate possesses
Overall behavioral analysis of every candidate designed to detect patterns/anti-patterns we’ve found to create successful or otherwise career trajectories within the our companies environment
Usage
This template is a set of guidelines/examples
The interviewer can modify to fit the course of the interview
A resume dig should take about 45 minutes to complete
Introduction (5 min)
Thank the candidate for their time
Introduction your role at the company
For example, mention your years of experience at the company and the team that you support
Set expectations on the purpose of the interview
ie “I would like to cover a coding question with you, ideally we come to a completed solution, we should have 5-10 minutes at the end for you to ask me questions”
Career Context (10 minutes)
How did you get into the field of X?
Is it something that you fell into or something that you always knew you wanted to do?
What about X fulfills your intellectual curiosity and drives you to continue in this field?
What are some of the inherent gaps, bottlenecks, pain points of X?
How would you describe your own career trajectory?
If jagged: What caused the change in career trajectory? What did you learn from the new direction? How have you since applied those learnings to what you do now? If you could go back, would you have made the same decision? Regardless of the answer, why?
If linear: How have you shared your experience with others around you? Can you provide an example? Have you ever utilized an attribute from outside your domain within your domain? Back to pain points, do you commonly learn from your own mistakes or others? Can you provide an example?
Career Trajectory (10 minutes)
Look back at their two previous jobs on their resume:
How did you get introduced to these opportunities?
Did you have multiple opportunities when you decided to take these jobs?
Why did you take the "insert role" at "insert company"?
What appealed to you most about the company?
What cultural values did you observe from the interview process?
What appealed most to you about the role?
How was the role explained to you when you started?
Was company X transparent with you about some of the challenges you were going to face coming in?
After you started, did you feel like the expectations were set too high, too low, or just right?
What were the three main reasons you took the job?
When you started, what was the first thing you wanted to change?
Why?
What was the first thing you learned?
How did the responsibilities of the job match up to what you were told about the role?
Do you feel like onboarding and training got you up to speed quickly?
Regardless of the answer, why/how?
Questions (10 minutes)
Can you briefly describe the single thing you improved the most at Company X?
How widespread was the improvement (i.e., just you, team, org, company)?
How long did it take you to kick off the plan for improvement?
Was it met with opposition?
What were the major hurdles you had to overcome?
Who were enablers of the improvement, and who were the detractors?
Once the improvement was adopted, what remained the same and what changed?
What crystallizing event led to your departure from Company X?
From the time you made that decision, how long was it before you started a new job?
What were you looking for in a new job?
How did you find your next job?
What was the single biggest takeaway from Company X?
What did you learn?
How would you have done things better?
What did they learn from you?
Wrap up Questions (10 minutes)
What questions do you have for me?
What can I tell you about the role, the company, working with me etc?
Discuss next steps
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