The Phone Screener Phone interviews are an easy way to screen job seekers. In just a few quick questions, phone screeners allow you to vet a candidate and make sure they are a strong match skill-wise before you decide to invest further time in them. At this stage, you'll want to focus on high-level questions to make sure they meet the requirements of the role. The Skill Test Behavioral questions allow you to find the best fit for each role, and help you hire employees who can drive innovation, productivity, customer satisfaction and profits. Determine test objectives, e.g. personality, values, skills, etc. and decide how candidates will be moved forward or eliminated based on the results. The In-Person Interview At this stage in the interview process, you already know that the candidate is generally well-qualified for the role, so it's time to dig further into culture fit and work style. See if you can identify what motivates a candidate, what drew them to your company and how they work on a team, amongst other questions. The Group Panel By meeting with a variety of people, candidates get a comprehensive picture of the culture and the job itself, and team members get a strong sense of the contribution the job seeker will make as an employee. Make sure you prepare interviewers with the job description and the candidate's resume. Also, don’t forget to identify a panel leader, and assign roles to each interviewer based on job function and/or expertise. The Candidate Presentation Team members will get a sense of contribution, skills and personality during a job seeker’s presentation. However, you will need to make sure to be specific about the presentation topic to the candidate, and also determine objectives for evaluation of the presenter with the team. And don’t forget to solicit feedback via a scorecard or a post-panel debrief. While adding extra hoops for candidates raises the perceived difficulty of job interviews, it also slows down the hiring process — which can lead to costly hiring delays and candidates lost to the competition. Before adding additional layers to interviews, it’s important for employers to assure that each new screen actually helps identify great candidates, and doesn’t just make interviews harder without any offsetting benefit.