Please go to to view my latest monthly technical recruiting tutorial. The focus is the 1 to 10 rating scale interview question.
What you want to do is ask your candidates to rate themselves on a scale of 1 to 10 on each of your key job attributes. The interview scale ranges from 1, which is no job experience, to 5, which is average job experience, up to 10, which is mastery of that key job skill. For example, “on a scale of 1 to 10, how good of a C programmer are you?”
The benefit of the 1 to 10 rating scale interview question is it forces your candidates to more precisely identify for you what their actual job skills are.
