At Accelent we have built a large library of interview questions over the past few decades and have decided to share them.

We will share a few of these every Monday.

We hope these will serve as inspiration to hiring teams and candidates who want to practice their interviewing skills.
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A tip for CEOs when hiring for a role you're not so familiar with:
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Many executives think they know how search firms operate.

They assume there’s some kind of black box or AI magic that differentiates firms.

But there’s no magic.

What differentiates firms is the same thing that differentiates executives: IQ, EQ, experience, approach, and lots of hard work.

Hiring executives at hot companies or well-known brands assume everyone wants to work for them.

While that assumption is totally understandable from a human psychology point of view, it is a fallacy and puts the hiring company at a competitive disadvantage.

A few pieces of advice for interview teams.
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When it’s time to give feedback, each team member should:

Some advice for hiring managers:
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Tip for hiring teams:

Insert your position spec into a slide deck, not a Word document.

Then tell the company story with slides you’ve used for investor or sales presentation decks.

Now you have a richer, more compelling story and one that will engage new talent with greater effectiveness.

A few pieces of advice to interviewers:
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#1: Coordinate with your fellow interviewers.

Split the list of competencies that you have chosen for this role so that each interviewer has their own set of competencies to assess.

A few pieces of advice to interviewers:
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#1: Be sure to prepare for the interview.

Don’t wing it.

Read the candidate resume thoroughly and prepare questions against the target competencies.