Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us about yourself and the roles and industries you have hired for?
- What does great talent acquisition look like to you, beyond filling seats?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- Walk us through a sourcing strategy you built for a hard-to-fill role.
- How do you build a talent pipeline for a role before it officially opens?
- Which sourcing tools and Boolean techniques do you actually use day to day?
- How do you design a structured interview process, and how do you train interviewers on it?
- Which funnel metrics do you monitor, and describe a change you made because of them.
Behavioural & culture fit
- Tell us about a time you pushed back on a hiring manager's unrealistic profile. What happened?
- Describe how you kept candidates warm during a slow or frozen hiring process.
- What have you done to improve an employer brand with little or no budget?
Problem-solving / case
- We need to hire 20 engineers in two quarters in a competitive market. Sketch your plan.
- Your best-performing source suddenly dries up. How do you diversify quickly?
- Candidate drop-off doubles at the technical interview stage. How do you investigate and fix it?
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