Recruiting Process and Interview Guides

Considering that there's no activity a Design organization does that's more important than recruiting and hiring, it's shameful how few of them treat this activity with the respect and rigor it deserves. There's a misconception that approaching recruiting with such rigor will cause the process to drag on to long. In fact, it's the opposite: by having clear standards in place, hiring decisions are made more quickly and with greater confidence.

What follows is a scrubbed version of an actual recruiting process document I've used for a few clients. Feel free to adopt as much (or as little) of what follows in your own organization. Throughout you'll see "[Company]", where you would just place the name of your company.