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People manager

Covers the core of managing people: hiring and growing people, hard conversations, priorities and following through. It suits first-time and experienced managers alike. Follow-ups push for the actual conversation they had and what happened to the person afterwards.

Suits: Engineering manager, Team lead, Operations manager, Customer support manager, Sales manager

Questions
6 of 19
Length
30 min
Format
Voice or typed
Levels
Mid to Staff
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Example
  1. Interviewer: Tell me about a time you changed someone's mind at work. How did you go about it?

  2. Candidate: Our team wanted to rebuild the billing page from scratch, and I thought it was the wrong call, so we put together a plan to…

  3. Follow-up

    Interviewer: You said "we". What did you say yourself, and what finally changed their mind?

  4. Scored on

    • Developing people30%
    • Difficult conversations30%
    • Prioritisation20%
    • Follow-through20%

    Score, reasons and recording. Your team decides.

An example exchange. This interview's own questions open when you use it.

What it listens for, and how much each part counts.

Every answer is scored against this guide, with the reasoning written beside the score. You get the recording or the written answers too, and your team makes the call.

  • Developing people30%
    Grows people deliberately and hires against clear needs.
  • Difficult conversations30%
    Addresses underperformance, conflict and bad news directly and with care.
  • Prioritisation20%
    Makes explicit trade-offs and protects the team's focus.
  • Follow-through20%
    Checks back and can say how each situation actually ended.
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