Hishem AzzouzHost Of Recruitment Mentors Podcast

The interview blueprint you need to try out.

Name: The interview blueprint you need to try out.
Uploaded: 2025-07-08T16:01:06+00:00
Duration: 47 s
Channel: Hishem Azzouz
Description: In this talk, the speaker reflects on a previous company's rapid growth and overly layered interview process, then outlines a streamlined hiring…

8 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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In this talk, the speaker reflects on a previous company's rapid growth and overly layered interview process, then outlines a streamlined hiring blueprint. The approach begins with a deep-dive interview that probes candidates on their knowledge of the company, motivations for joining, dissatisfaction with their current role, relationship with their current manager, and preferred management styles. Once a candidate meets the experience and motivation criteria, the onboarding phase presents an "open book" business plan that details monthly performance targets, weekly key‑performance indicators, target markets and geographic expansion goals. The speaker emphasizes that new hires must be prepared for significant change and be aligned with the company’s aggressive growth agenda.

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I've worked at a business that was growing extremely well, had a sound interview process, and I hired lots of people, but I often felt the structure was too, too tall. There was too many layers of things. So with us, we get under the hood of that and find out why. And it's, what do you know about us? What's like, why do you want to join? What do you not like about your current job? What's your manager like? Do you get on well with them? How, how, what management techniques lend themselves to you? And once we feel like, do you know what, they want it for the right reasons, they've got the right experience, they tick all these boxes, let's get them in and give them an open book. We will go This is how much we want to do each month. This is what a good week looks like from KPIs. This is what countries we wanna be in at this period of time. And it's like full business plan. Like we'll get 'em in and run through the whole thing and be like, there is going to be a lot of change here. There'll be so much and we need to make sure people are ready for that.