Internal Recruiter Interview Questions
Go Back1. How do you react when you and your leadership team disagree on the quality of a candidate?
2. How do you treat candidates not selected for the job? Walk me through your process.
3. When entering a new job, describe how you build relationships with your new coworkers and supervisors.
4. Recruitment can be highly frustrating at times. How do you cope with the fact that you are always putting out fires?
5. You will face very senior professionals in this role. How do you embody poise and professionalism?
6. When pre-screening a candidate, what is the most important question you could ask?
7. How is your recruitment performance measured in your current role?
8. In an interview, how do you evaluate the performance of an executive candidate who is under a non-disclosure agreement with their current employer?
9. How do you quickly learn industry terminology for roles that are new to you?
10. Talk to me about your level of proficiency with LinkedIn Recruiter.
11. Which recruitment-related technology and tools you do lean on most often during your day?
12. How do you use social media and other online tools in your recruitment process?
13. When hiring, is it important for you to contact a candidate's professional references?
14. What new hiring or human resources topic is piquing your interest the most right now?
15. Tell me how you find qualified candidates. Share an experience in which one of these methods helped you find a great employee.
16. Do you have experience coordinating interviews, and documenting the candidate journey?
17. Do you have experience guiding candidates through job offers and negotiations?
18. Do you have experience preparing or leading new hire orientation?
19. Tell me about your experience in terminations.
20. Why would your employer prefer to hire a temp over a permanent employee?
21. Do you have experience guiding candidates through job offer negotiations?
22. What does the term attrition mean, and what are the biggest causes of employee attrition rates?
23. Do you have experience using an ATS? Which applicant tracking systems do you know best?
24. What are your top 3 most important activities as an Internal Recruiter?
25. How do you help your company to make sound hiring decisions?
26. Tell me about a time when you influenced hiring practices at your current or former employer.
27. How do you use data and analytics in your HR process?
28. Tell me about a recruitment mistake you made. Were there any details in the process you missed and realized later? How did you adjust based on what you learned?
29. Name one thing you could improve in your process, as an Internal Recruiter.
30. What do you believe to be the most significant change in the recruitment process this year?