HR Recruiter
Practice sourcing, screening, structured interviews, offers and fair hiring with free HR Recruiter challenges and mock interview questions.
- Questions
- 100
- Interview Qs
- 30
- Skills
- 10
About the role
An HR Recruiter finds, attracts and hires the right people for a company. On a normal day a recruiter meets hiring managers to understand open roles, writes clear job descriptions, sources candidates on job boards and LinkedIn, screens resumes and runs phone screens, and schedules interviews with the hiring team.
Recruiters also manage the candidate experience from first contact to offer. They keep the applicant tracking system (ATS) up to date, share timely feedback, negotiate offers within budget, run background and reference checks, and hand new hires over to onboarding. Good recruiters treat candidates with respect even when the answer is no.
Modern recruiting is data-driven and fair. Recruiters track metrics such as time to fill, source of hire, pipeline conversion and offer acceptance rate, use structured interviews to reduce bias, follow labour and data privacy laws, and use AI tools carefully with human review.
Practise by level
Open the full question bank (100 questions) →Mock interview
Screening round
4 questions · 4 min each · pass 50%
mediumTechnical round
5 questions · 4 min each · pass 60%
hardFinal round
6 questions · 3 min each · pass 70%
Skills in this track
Learning roadmap
- 1
Learn the hiring lifecycle
Understand each stage: requisition, intake, job posting, sourcing, screening, interviews, offer, background check and onboarding. Learn the common terms like ATS, pipeline, CTC and notice period.
- 2
Master sourcing
Practice Boolean search on LinkedIn and Google, use job portals like Naukri and Indeed, build talent pools and write short, personal outreach messages that get replies.
- 3
Screen and interview well
Learn to read resumes for evidence, run phone screens, use structured interviews with scorecards, and ask behavioural questions using the STAR method.
- 4
Handle offers and stakeholders
Learn salary benchmarking, offer negotiation, counter-offer handling and how to push back politely on hiring managers with data.
- 5
Hire fairly and legally
Study bias in hiring, inclusive job ads, consent and data privacy rules such as the DPDP Act in India and GDPR, and safe use of AI screening tools.
- 6
Measure and improve
Track time to fill, source of hire, conversion rates, offer acceptance, quality of hire and candidate satisfaction, then use the data to fix weak stages.
Top HR Recruiter interview questions
- Walk me through the end-to-end recruitment process you follow.
- How do you screen a resume quickly but fairly?
- How do you find and approach passive candidates?
- Why does candidate experience matter, and how do you improve it?
- Which recruiting metrics do you track, and why?
- Why do you want to work as a recruiter?