An assessment interview is the résumé-focused part of hiring. The hiring manager or recruiter reviews the candidate’s experience in reverse chronological order, fills in missing details, and checks whether the résumé’s claims hold up. section 21.3.2
Keep this interview narrow:
- Use résumé questions here, rather than wasting later interview time asking factual questions such as where someone worked in a particular year. section 21.3.2 section 21.3.3
- Probe details that do not fit on the résumé and investigate questions about its veracity. section 21.3.2
- Keep technical-skill evaluation separate; uncover those skills through appropriate questions rather than improvised interview tests. section 21.3.2 section 21.3.3
A practical boundary
Asking a candidate to write a difficult C program on a whiteboard is not an assessment interview; it is an intrusive technical test, especially when the role is not primarily coding. Keep the résumé investigation in the assessment interview and evaluate technical ability with better-targeted questions or a take-home exercise when necessary. section 21.3.3 section 21.3.2
