Designing good interviews

How can we make interviews more relevant and time-intensive? An ideal interview would be testing in a real working environment for a couple of months. While there are several companies that can afford to operate without interviews, using paid probation periods instead, this is a very costly hiring strategy that not every business can afford. A good interview should serve as a substitute for real working experience. It should not be a test of a person's skill, but a test for a person's ability to perform a specific job well. If an ideal test for a candidate is a probation period, then the worst kind is a whiteboard interview (unless you are interviewing a computer science lecturer). To design a great interview, bring it as close as possible to your working process and to the issues you solve on a daily basis.

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