Interviewer Playbook

Practical guides to interview well and hire right

Step-by-step guides for hiring managers, recruiters and HR teams — written from 15+ years of hands-on hiring experience.

A frustrated manager at the head of a meeting table while his team looks away, disengaged
Why it matters

The real cost of a wrong hire, and why interviewing is a leadership skill

One wrong hire can quietly break a good team. Why recruiters, HR, hiring managers and leaders must treat interviewing as a core skill, not a bucket-list item.

7 min read · 7 November 2026
A confident candidate explains a sales result while a thoughtful interviewer, pen at her chin, listens and gets ready to probe
Probing

Probing questions: how to find out what the candidate really did

A practical guide for hiring managers and recruiters: how to turn a polished first answer into real evidence with simple follow-up questions, without sounding like an interrogation.

6 min read · 6 November 2026
A hiring manager running a structured interview with a candidate in a modern office
Fundamentals

How to conduct a structured interview: a step-by-step guide

A practical, step-by-step guide for hiring managers: plan the role, ask about past behaviour, probe for real evidence and score every skill with a note.

8 min read · 27 October 2026