HR Recruiter question bank
100 questions. Filter by level and skill, track what you've solved, and see how many people get each one right.
- What an ATS does
- The intake meeting
- Time to fill
- Boolean search
- Inclusive job ads
- Purpose of a phone screen
- The STAR method
- Closing the loop
- Time to hire vs time to fill
- Calculate cost per hire
- What is a requisition?
- Boolean OR for job titles
- Search an exact phrase
- X-ray search
- Passive vs active candidates
- Why referrals work
- Must-haves vs nice-to-haves
- Which question is appropriate?
- What CTC means
- Notice period
- Why check references?
- Background check consent
- Measure candidate experience
- Self-scheduling tools
- What goes in an offer letter
- Preboarding
- What is a talent pool?
- The halo effect
- Affinity bias
- Planning campus hiring
- What is a competency?
- Avoid ghosting candidates
- An accommodation request
- Source of hire share
- Too many unfit applicants
- Writing a sourcing message
- Why structured interviews
- Find the bottleneck
- Candidate data privacy
- Offer acceptance rate
- Offer dropouts during notice period
- AI resume screening
- How many applicants do you need?
- Calculate an agency fee
- 90-day attrition
- Build a grouped Boolean string
- Write a behavioural question
- Probing a "we" answer
- Calibrate the panel
- Which method predicts performance?
- Take-home task length
- Benchmark a salary
- EU pay transparency for candidates
- Asking about current salary
- Offer deadlines
- A candidate mentions a disability
- "I just know a good hire"
- Diverse slates without lowering the bar
- Fix a coded job ad
- Skills-based hiring
- Rejecting a finalist
- A candidate asks for their data
- Design for high-volume hiring
- An internal candidate is not selected
- Running an executive search
- A negative Glassdoor review
- Interview no-shows
- Improve the careers page
- The purple squirrel
- The counter-offer
- Biased feedback
- Too many open roles
- Checking for adverse impact
- Suspected proxy interview
- Picking the best channel
- Scaling hiring fast
- A simple quality-of-hire index
- Full cost per hire
- Mean or median time to fill?
- Automated hiring tools in New York City
- AI recruiting tools under the EU AI Act
- Prevent counteroffer surprises
- A budget freeze after acceptance
- A background check discrepancy
- A past conviction
- A suspicious reference
- A manager wants to hire a friend
- Referrals and diversity
- Two equal finalists
- Offer above the existing team
- When the budget is maxed
- How many recruiters do you need?
- Offer acceptance has fallen
- Silver medalists
- Leading interview questions
- Hidden age bias
- Internal move or external hire?
- A flood of AI-polished resumes
- A candidate offers confidential data
- When to ask medical questions