Are you interested in involving a team of employees to interview and select your next candidate? One of my readers wrote and asked about an interview checklist. I realized that I had developed a checklist for hiring employees^[1], but I had never highlighted the interview portions of recruitment with its own checklist.

Problem solved. My new interview checklist should help you and your team perform effective interviews that garner you qualified employees who fit your culture. The more systematic that you are about how you recruit, screen, interview, and hire employees, the more likely you are to avoid discrimination^[2].

With consistent hiring practices, you are also more likely to be giving every candidate a fair chance to impress your team with his knowledge, problem solving skills, and experience.

A consistent approach also enables you to analyze your interviewing practices over time to see what works. The most comprehensive checklist on the planet is useless if the process fails to identify employees who contribute and succeed.

Take the time to do a retrospective on your interviewing practices periodically to determine whether your process needs to change. You need to look at all HR processes periodically to make sure that they haven't become dinosaurs. HR processes and policies must support the success of employees and your business, not add layers of bureaucracy and steps.

Take a look at my new interview checklist^[3]. I'd appreciate, as always, your feedback. What would you add or subtract?

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