From Vibes to Signal

Unstructured interviews feel natural but produce noisy decisions. Candidates get different questions, interviewers optimize for personal style, and debriefs become debates about impressions.

Structured interviewing creates consistency:

• Same competencies.
• Comparable questions.
• Shared scoring anchors.
• Evidence-based debriefs.

Structure is not rigidity

Interviewers can still ask follow-ups. The structure defines what they are trying to learn and how they should score it.

Try it yourself

Pick one role. List the five competencies that truly predict success. Remove any trait that sounds nice but cannot be observed in an interview.