Interview technique
Practise the questions that turn an interview into a useful conversation.
Ask. Then listen.
Experience-based interview and questioning development. Budapest, since 2013. Learn from the perspectives of a detective, a reporter and an attentive listener.
Explore the programmesThe question
Decide what you need to understand before deciding what to ask.
The answer
Stay with what the person says, not the answer you expected.
The reflection
Separate what you heard from the conclusion you drew.
Try another perspective.
One situation can invite different questions. Choose a perspective and notice what it brings into focus.
What happened next?
Follow the sequence. Ask about the decision and the evidence behind it.
A laboratory for conversation.
Interview technique is a practice: ask, notice, reflect and try again.
Our public approach brings experience-based development together with diagnostics, training and coaching. The material is the conversation itself, including the moments when it does not go as planned.
About the Laboratory
What we practise.
Selection practice
Connect candidate conversations with the actual decision a hiring team needs to make.
Questioning
Explore the habits of a detective, a reporter and a listener.
Coaching
Review your own conversations and develop a more deliberate interviewing practice.
Inside the interview.
The first question
Set a direction without deciding the answer in advance.
The follow-up
Stay with the answer long enough to understand it.
Shared judgement
Compare interpretations before they harden into conclusions.
Listening under pressure
Notice what happens when an interview becomes difficult.
Questions worth keeping.
Open is not enough
An open question still needs a purpose.
Evidence and inference
Record the answer before recording the conclusion.
A reporter’s question
Ask what another person would need to understand the story.
Begin with a question.
Which conversation would you like to understand better?