Screening Interview Templates
Pre-built screening questions for common roles. Use a template to get started in seconds, then customize to fit your needs.
How to Screen Software Engineers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen engineering candidates on what they personally owned, how they handled a real production incident, their actual path from commit to production, and where they override AI coding tools.
How to Screen Product Managers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen product candidates on the decision they personally owned, what they refused to build, how the roadmap really got set, where their instrumentation lies to them, and where they would need help.
How to Screen Account Executives: 8 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen AE candidates on quota attainment across multiple periods, self-sourced pipeline, deal size and cycle fit, qualification discipline, forecast honesty, and comp expectations.
How to Screen Customer Success Managers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen CSM candidates on which of the four CSM jobs they actually did, real book size and segment, whether they owned the renewal number or only influenced it, how early they catch churn, and whether they can ask a customer for money.
How to Screen Data Analysts: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen analyst candidates on scoping a vague request, SQL depth, data-quality judgment, verification habits, and whether anyone ever acted on their findings.
How to Screen Marketing Managers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen marketing candidates on the number they personally owned, the budget they controlled, where their attribution lies to them, the channel that stopped working, and what they would cut first.
How to Screen UX Designers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen product design candidates on what actually shipped, which parts were theirs, what it changed in the numbers, how they hand off to engineering, and when they break from the design system.
How to Screen DevOps Engineers on CI/CD and Infrastructure: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen platform candidates on the pipeline they actually run, the alert they deleted, what is still clicked in a console, and how much of the job they expect to be firefighting.
How to Screen Recruiters: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen recruiters and sourcers for real requisition load, sourcing that goes past job-board applicants, written outreach quality, funnel metrics they actually own, and tolerance for the volume your desk carries.
How to Screen Executive Assistants: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen executive assistants for the level of executive they have actually supported, calendar control under constant change, discretion with confidential information, inbox and gatekeeping judgment, error recovery, and the onsite and after-hours expectations that decide whether the match holds.
How to Screen Senior Product Managers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen senior, group, and principal PM candidates on the strategy they wrote, how they split team capacity, what they retired, whether they owned pricing, and how they changed a leadership team's mind.
How to Screen Data Scientists: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen data science candidates on whether their models shipped and stayed shipped, what they built that nobody used, how they caught production degradation, and how their labels were actually defined.
How to Screen Sales Representatives: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen sales rep candidates on real daily activity numbers, ramp history, slump recovery, lead-source mix, actual earnings versus OTE, and the logistics that end most sales hires early.
How to Screen Enterprise Customer Success Managers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen enterprise and strategic CSM candidates on how many people they knew inside each account, what they did when a sponsor left, the customer outcome they measured, and what they held when procurement pushed at renewal.
How to Screen DevOps Engineers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen infrastructure candidates on the architecture they personally shaped, what their on-call rotation actually looked like, what a zero-downtime migration cost them, and where they would need to ramp up on your stack.
How to Screen Warehouse Associates: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen warehouse associates for facility and equipment experience, stamina across a full shift, productivity against a pick rate, forklift certification, accuracy and safety judgment under rate pressure, and the attendance and transportation reality that decides whether they last 30 days.
How to Screen Administrative Assistants: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen administrative assistant candidates on real software depth, support volume and ownership, choosing between two bosses who both need something now, scheduling recovery, confidentiality in an open office, expense and invoice process, and where they decide without you.
How to Screen Customer Service Representatives: 8 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen customer service reps for real interaction volume, de-escalation under pressure, channel and CRM comfort, performance against metrics, schedule fit, and the attendance reliability that decides whether they make it past training.
How to Screen Registered Nurses (RNs): 8 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen RNs for active licensure and compact status, setting and acuity fit, current BLS and ACLS, deterioration and escalation judgment, delegation to LPNs and aides, charting, and shift availability before you spend time on a call.
How to Screen Skilled Trades Workers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen electricians, HVAC techs, plumbers, and other tradespeople for an active license and classification, real job-site scope, current safety cards, tools and transportation, inspection and callback history, and the rate and availability that decide whether the hire actually starts.
How to Screen Forklift Operators: 8 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen forklift operators and production workers for equipment class, real hours at height, safety judgment, incident history, attendance, and shift fit before you spend time on a call.
How to Screen IT Help Desk Technicians: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen help desk and service desk candidates on the environment actually behind the title, a troubleshooting call you grade by the order they check things, ticket and queue discipline including what they write before they close, the identity work that is most of the real volume, one claimed skill explained out loud, a hard problem and a clean escalation, remote hands with a frustrated user, the social-engineering call that decides whether they are a breach vector, and the shift and pay reality that breaks most help desk hires.
How to Run a Staffing Agency Intake Screen: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen any candidate for work authorization, availability and start date, pay floor, commute radius, work history, credentials, background and schedule blockers, and the duplicate-submission conflict that voids your fee after the client says yes.
How to Screen CDL Truck Drivers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen CDL drivers for license class and endorsements, three years of carrier history and why they left each one, MVR and accident record, DOT medical and Clearinghouse status, manual versus automatic seat time, hours-of-service planning, and the home time, pay, and start date that decide whether the hire sticks.
How to Screen Caregivers and Home Health Aides: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen caregivers and home health aides for credentials and registry status, the caseload they actually carried, hands-on personal care and the early skin changes only an aide sees, how a four-hour visit goes when the client refuses care and the family asks for favors, a fall found with nobody else in the house, dementia refusals and theft accusations, scope and documentation integrity, mandatory reporting, and the hours and drive time that decide who is still there in month three.
How to Screen Medical Assistants: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen medical assistants for an active CMA, RMA, or CCMA credential, the clinical and front-office split they actually worked and at what volume, the hands-on skills they can perform unsupervised, how they sequence a full 8 a.m. schedule that is already behind, the phone call asking whether to double a dose, what they did the last time they made a clinical error, EHR and in-basket fluency, the records that gate a start date, and the weekend and multi-site hours that decide whether the hire lasts.
How to Screen Housekeepers and Room Attendants: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen housekeepers and room attendants for the property and room load they actually worked, rooms-per-shift pace, what hour six feels like, how they check their own work, chemical dilution and a needle in the sheets, weekend availability, the early commute, and the cash on the nightstand.
How to Screen Line Cooks: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen line cooks for the kind of kitchen they actually come from (high-volume casual, banquet, fine dining, institutional dining) and which station was theirs, how they hold a rail when twelve tickets are hanging, the food-safety numbers they should know cold, how they stay on spec at the four-hundredth cover, how they build mise and work clean, how they handle a chef and a short-staffed line, the heat and the hours, the nights-weekends-holidays availability that decides most hires, and the attendance and late-night transportation that decide whether they are still there in week three.
How to Screen Diesel Mechanics: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen diesel mechanics on the equipment and engine platforms they actually have hours on, the ASE and FMCSA inspection credentials that decide what they can sign, a fault-code complaint you can grade by the order they check things in, a DEF derate with a cause upstream of the aftertreatment, brake stroke and wheel-end procedure, a repair write-up that will survive a warranty claim, the comeback they will admit to, jack-stand and spring-brake judgment, and the second-shift and flat-rate reality that kills offers in week two.
How to Screen Phlebotomists: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen phlebotomists for venipuncture skill, certification, specimen-handling accuracy, patient composure, STAT and timed-draw prioritization, and shift availability before you spend time on a call.
How to Screen Dental Hygienists: 8 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen dental hygienists for RDH licensure, scaling and periodontal skill, imaging and software familiarity, chairside manner, and schedule fit before you spend time on a call.
How to Screen Restaurant Servers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen restaurant servers for section and volume experience, POS and service flow, guest recovery, menu and allergen knowledge, alcohol-service certification, cash and check integrity, and schedule fit before you spend time on a call.
How to Screen Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs and LVNs): 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen LPNs and LVNs for active licensure and scope, setting and acuity fit, med-pass and clinical skills, change-in-condition and night-shift judgment, charting, and shift availability before you spend time on a call.
How to Screen Medication Aides (CMA, Med Tech, QMAP): 8 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen medication aides for active certification and state scope, med-pass accuracy under a full assignment, what they do when a resident refuses or an order looks wrong, MAR and EMR charting, when they escalate to the nurse, and shift fit before you spend time on a call.
How to Screen HVAC Technicians: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen HVAC technicians for EPA 608 certification, install versus service experience, real diagnostic ability on refrigeration and heating, on-call and rooftop willingness, and reliability before you spend time on a call.
How to Screen Hotel Front Desk Agents: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen front desk agents and night auditors for the property type and arrival volume they actually worked, real PMS depth past check-in, a guest disputing a charge at the counter, 4 p.m. with a line and a ringing phone, an oversold night and a walk, a short drawer and a wrong posting, the caller asking which room a guest is in, and the nights, weekends, holidays, and overnight audit the desk actually needs covered.
How to Screen Retail Sales Associates and Cashiers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen sales associates and cashiers for the store formats and registers they have actually worked, a real upset customer, a Saturday with a line and a price check holding it up, a short drawer, a coworker handing out unauthorized discounts, what they do when the store is empty, and the nights, weekends, holiday, transportation, and age fit that decides who is still on the schedule in month two.
How to Screen Bilingual Call Center Agents: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen bilingual call center agents on which kind of bilingual they actually are, one answer written in the language the role requires so you see the working vocabulary instead of a checked box, which queue the experience really is, how they de-escalate a caller who is swearing, the mid-call language switch with English-only notes, talking and reading and typing at once, typing speed and system ramp, the schedule and workspace reality, and the extra translation load that burns bilingual agents out faster than their English-only peers.
How to Screen Electricians: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen electricians on license tier and who can actually pull a permit, which of the four electrician trades the background really is, a flickering-lights call you can grade by the order they check things in, the NEC edition their jurisdiction runs under, a lockout and arc flash answer you score pass or fail, how they isolate a breaker that keeps tripping, print reading and pipe layout, site clearances and PPE, and the travel, overtime, and pay structure that break offers in week two.
How to Screen Welders: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen welders for the kind of welding actually behind the title (structural, pressure pipe, aluminum TIG, production MIG, sheet stainless), which code and position they are qualified on and whether that paper is still alive, a porosity call you can grade by the order they check things, whether they can read a weld symbol and work to a WPS, the test they failed and what changed after, holding quality to a rate, hot work and fire watch and stainless fume, the fit-up and cutting they bring beyond the bead, and the weld test, shift, travel, and pay that decide who shows up Monday.
How to Screen Pharmacy Technicians: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen pharmacy technicians for the settings and prescription volume they have actually worked, certification and state registration with expiration dates, accuracy habits under a deep queue, third-party adjudication, controlled-substance inventory, the dispensing systems and automation they know, the scope line between a tech and a pharmacist, what they did the last time speaking up was expensive, and the shift availability that decides who stays.
How to Screen Security Officers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen security officers for the state card and class the post actually requires and who holds the registration, the settings really behind them (lobby, hospital, retail LP, patrol, industrial), an aggressive person on their watch and the moment they stopped handling it alone, what goes in a daily activity report versus an incident report, staying awake and moving through a dead overnight, the patrol log on a site where nobody reads it, relief and post abandonment, the background check, and the shifts and ride to a site with no bus line.
How to Screen Plumbers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen plumbers on license tier and who can actually pull a permit, service versus new construction versus remodel, a whole-house drain backup you can grade by the order they check things in, joining methods and where they hand off gas and backflow, the inspection they failed and what changed after, pricing a repair at somebody's kitchen table, the first fifteen minutes of a 9 p.m. sewage backup, trench and confined-space judgment, and the on-call rotation and pay structure that break offers in week two.
How to Screen Delivery Drivers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen non-CDL delivery drivers for a license and MVR that will clear your insurer, the vehicle classes they will actually back into a dock, real route density, the lifting and stairs that end most hires in week two, judgment on an unsupervised route, the first-month ramp where drivers quit, and a schedule that survives a day ending when the truck is empty.
How to Screen Maintenance Technicians: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen maintenance techs on property type and real work-order volume, the trades they service alone versus sub out, a no-cooling diagnostic you can grade, EPA 608 type and pool and state credentials, how they triage six stacked work orders on a Friday afternoon, turn pace and punch-list depth, the first fifteen minutes of a 2 a.m. water intrusion call, conduct inside an occupied home, and the lockout/tagout, tool, and drive-time facts that break offers in week two.
How to Screen Machine Operators and Production Associates: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen machine operators and production associates for the kind of production work actually behind the title, whether they set a machine up or only tend one somebody else set, a changeover and first-piece approval walked start to finish, print and gauge literacy including what they do when a dimension drifts toward the limit, a troubleshooting call you can grade by the order they check things, lockout and guarding at the moment a jam needs clearing, the rate and scrap numbers they were held to, what they actually write in the log, and the shift, transportation, boots, and pay that decide who is still there in week three.
How to Screen Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs): 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen CNAs for active certification and a clean nurse aide registry, the setting and assignment load they actually carried, the first three hours of a day shift, incontinence and skin care, a resident found on the floor, a dementia refusal, a change in condition and what sits outside their scope, a coworker being rough, and the weekends, holdovers, and transportation that decide who is still there in month two.
How to Screen School Bus Drivers: 8 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen school bus drivers for CDL class and S and P endorsements, DOT medical and driving record, split-shift availability, student management, safety procedure, and background-check readiness before you spend time on a call.
How to Screen Automotive Technicians: 8 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen auto techs for skill level, ASE and state inspection credentials, flat-rate pay fit, their own tool set, real diagnostic process, comeback rate, and driving record before you spend time on a call.
How to Screen Direct Support Professionals (DSPs): 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen DSPs for real IDD experience, comfort with personal care, behavior support and de-escalation, medication certification, driving, documentation, and the awake overnights and holdovers that cause most of the turnover.
How to Screen Dietary Aides and Dietary Cooks: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen dietary aides and cooks for diet-order accuracy, texture-modified and therapeutic diet experience, allergy handling, food-safety and survey readiness, tray line speed, resident interaction, and the early-morning, weekend, and holiday availability a 365-day kitchen runs on.
How to Screen Behavior Technicians (RBTs): 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen behavior technicians for real ABA session experience, RBT credential status, data collection and note discipline, protocol fidelity, crisis training, comfort with personal care, and the after-school hours and cancellations that cause most of the turnover.
How to Screen Medical Receptionists and Patient Access Reps: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen medical front office candidates on real phone and check-in volume, insurance eligibility verification, point-of-service collections, hands-on EHR experience, HIPAA judgment at an open counter, scheduling accuracy, and the clinical boundary.
How to Screen Field Service Technicians: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen field service technicians for real diagnostic depth versus parts swapping, callback history, customer handling when equipment is down, van stock and same-day paperwork discipline, lone-worker safety judgment, and the driving record and on-call terms that kill offers after acceptance.
How to Screen Janitors and Custodians: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen janitors and custodians for chemical handling and dilution discipline, restroom process and cross-contamination control, which floor machines they have actually run, whether they can work a full shift with nobody watching, key and alarm trust, bodily fluid cleanup, and the transportation and shift realities that decide who is still there in month three.
How to Screen EMTs and Paramedics: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen EMTs and paramedics for license level and standing, real 911 versus interfacility patient contact, the driving record that has to clear your fleet insurer, refusal and capacity judgment, chart discipline, and honest tolerance for the shift.
How to Screen Bartenders: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen bartenders for real bar volume and concept, speed and build knowledge, cut-off and ID judgment, cash and comp integrity, prep and closing discipline, and the late nights and weekends the schedule actually needs.
How to Screen Dental Assistants: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen dental assistants for state registration and radiography certification, the procedures they can actually assist on, sterilization discipline, software speed, and schedule fit before anyone picks up a phone.
How to Screen Sterile Processing Technicians: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen sterile processing techs for CRCST or CSPDT certification, which areas of the department they actually worked, decontamination and IFU discipline, sterilizer monitoring, and whether they will stop a questionable tray when the OR is waiting.
How to Screen Surgical Technologists: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen surgical techs for CST or TS-C certification, which service lines they can actually scrub solo, sterile field and count discipline, how they handle a surgeon under pressure, and whether they will call a break in technique out loud.
How to Screen Childcare Teachers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen childcare and daycare teachers for real age-group experience, clearances and credentials, behavior guidance, supervision and safe sleep, mandated reporting, parent communication, and the open-and-close availability that decides whether a room stays in ratio.
How to Screen Yard Jockeys and Yard Spotters: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen yard jockeys, spotters, and hostlers for real seat time on a terminal tractor, CDL and DOT card status, hook and drop habits, early-departure judgment at the dock, yard accuracy, incident honesty, and the nights and weather that decide who stays.
How to Screen Shift Leads and Shift Managers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen shift leads, shift managers, and key holders for what they have actually run without a manager in the building, cash and deposit discipline, open and close routines, callout recovery, correcting a peer, food safety habits, guest escalation, labor calls on a slow day, and open-to-close availability.
How to Screen Patient Care Technicians (PCTs): 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen patient care technicians for the unit and patient load they actually carried, CNA, CPCT/A, and BLS status, interrupted blood draws, STAT EKGs, abnormal vitals, fall prevention, isolation habits, dialysis certification, and 12-hour night and weekend fit.
How to Screen Truck Dispatchers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen truck dispatchers, driver managers, and load planners for the board they actually ran, hours-of-service math on a shipper delay, 2 a.m. breakdown triage, all-in rate per mile, rate confirmations and detention, the written updates brokers and drivers get, driver retention, and after-hours coverage.
How to Screen Environmental Services (EVS) Technicians: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen EVS technicians and healthcare housekeepers for the rooms and cleans they actually did, discharge clean order, disinfectant contact time and C. diff, isolation PPE, sharps and red bag waste, the patient who asks for water, bed board pressure, resident belongings, and 24/7 shift fit.
How to Screen Memory Care Aides and Dementia Caregivers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen memory care aides and dementia caregivers for the setting, resident count, and stage they actually worked, dementia training, exit-seeking at a locked door, a refused shower, sudden confusion that is not the dementia, incidents between residents, being hit, idle afternoons, and evening and overnight fit.
How to Screen Dishwashers and Kitchen Stewards: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen dishwashers and kitchen stewards for rush priorities, dish machine and pot sink sanitizing that holds up to a health inspection, clean and dirty side discipline, knife, glass, and chemical safety, a close done right with nobody watching, handling three demands at once, and the late-night schedule and transportation fit that decide who is still there in month two.
How to Screen Order Selectors and Order Pickers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen order selectors and pickers for a real rate history against an engineered standard, pallets that reach the store in one piece, voice-pick accuracy habits, cooler and freezer tolerance, pallet jack safety, the first-month ramp where most selectors quit, and a schedule that survives shifts that end when the loads are done.
How to Screen Fast Food Crew Members: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen fast food and quick service crew members for the stations and volume they have actually worked, their attendance record, drive-thru accuracy and a wrong order at the window, handwashing between the register and the food, calling out sick, allergen questions, a disputed-change moment at the counter, what they do when it is slow, and the schedule, age, and transportation fit that decides who lasts.
How to Screen Banquet and Event Servers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen banquet and event servers for the events and service styles they have actually worked, place-setting and plated-service basics, whether they read the BEO, room flips, working around speeches and toasts, a missing allergy card, alcohol judgment at a wedding, client requests that change the bill, and honest fit with an on-call schedule.
How to Screen Radiologic Technologists: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen rad techs for the settings and exam volume they have actually worked, credentials and expiration dates, patient and site identification, how dose decisions get made, pregnancy screening, repeats and positioning depth, portable and trauma work, what they did when asked to work outside their scope, and the call schedule that decides who stays past month three.
How to Screen Veterinary Technicians and Veterinary Assistants: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen vet techs and assistants on practice type and real caseload, credentials with exact expiration dates, low-stress restraint, venipuncture and catheter depth, an anesthetic monitoring scenario, controlled drug accountability and dose math you can grade, euthanasia and what they do after a hard day, the money conversation with a client who declines care, and the kennel work that decides who is still there in month four.
How to Screen Heavy Equipment Operators: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen excavator, dozer, loader, and backhoe operators for the machines and seat hours they actually ran, CDL and MSHA cards with expiration dates, whether they can hold grade with stakes or GPS, trench and spoil pile habits, what they do when the locates are wrong, pre-shift inspections, how they work around people on the ground, production on their best machine, and the start times and winter layoffs that decide who stays.
How to Screen Carpenters: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen carpenters for the kind of carpentry they actually do (rough framing, finish and trim, commercial metal stud, formwork), how they lay out walls off a print, whether they can cut a stair stringer and a rafter without being walked through it, fall protection and saw habits, what they do when the slab is out of level, the tools and truck they bring, how they work around other trades and inspections, a cut they got wrong, and the start times, travel, and winter layoffs that decide who is still there in March.
How to Screen Landscapers and Groundskeepers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen landscapers and groundskeepers for the lane they actually work in (route maintenance, install and hardscape, chemical application, tree care, in-house grounds), the equipment they have run themselves, how they mow a steep bank, mowing height and mulch math, trailer loading and their driving record, heat and thrown-object safety, the last thing they broke on a customer's property, the licenses they hold with states and dates, how they triage a route when they are an hour behind, and the 6:30 start times and winter layoffs that decide who is still there in August.
How to Screen Pest Control Technicians: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen pest control technicians for real inspection and identification versus blanket spraying, label and dilution discipline, application records that survive an audit, callback handling, and the license category, driving record, and spring schedule that kill offers after acceptance.
How to Screen Construction Laborers: 9 Questions and What to Listen For
Screen construction and general laborers for which trade's work they have actually supported (concrete, underground utilities, demo, framing, roadway), a real work day walked start to finish, the equipment they have personally run and how they check grade, what they look at before getting into a trench, their fall, silica, and struck-by habits around moving equipment, whether they ask or guess when an instruction is unclear, what they do with the twenty minutes when nobody has given them a task, and the start times, moving jobsites, weather, and pay that decide who is still on the crew in week three.