Recruiting talent into a team is one of the most important things yet conducting interviews is often done in a haphazard way. It’s time for an intervention!

Let’s cut right to the chase: the interviewer’s first and foremost goal is to objectively assess the candidate’s ability to do the work.

If that sounds like what you and your colleagues already do as interviewers, remember this is an intervention — so let’s make absolutely sure.

The interviewer’s goal is not:

• to talk with the candidate about other work they’ve done
• to see how the candidate would ‘fit’ in the company
• to hear from the candidate about relevant experiences
• to gauge what the candidate says in alignment with the job description

And certainly not:

• to ascertain a candidate’...