This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

Have you hired a strong candidate who aced every interview, only to fail within three months? Or rejected someone who later did well elsewhere? Here are 342 tools to screen for performance: 219 ready-to-use question lists, procedures, checklists and templates, 80 models and methods, 30 working files and 13 services shown on screen.

Open a lecture, take the checklist, and use it on your next CV.

Why good interviews make bad hires

Screening relies on impressions: a polished CV, a confident conversation, a good feeling. Questions vary from candidate to candidate, tests are not linked to the job, and the decision is made without a scorecard. The result is visible three months later.

What changes after this course

You screen against competencies, read CVs for evidence, run structured interviews, use tests, cases and assessment centres where they fit, and decide with scorecards, so the people you hire are the ones who perform.

What is inside: 342 tools, counted lecture by lecture

You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.

• 70 downloadable resources: lecture presentations plus 30 working files, including a CV evaluation checklist, a competency assessment matrix, a behavioural competency dictionary and an assessment method selector
• 219 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
• 57 question lists and scripts: competency interview questions, situational interview questions, potential assessment questions, candidate reference check script
• 42 step-by-step procedures: two-minute resume screening, structured interview preparation, teach-back assessment, hiring debrief
• 37 checklists: resume red flags, screening anti-bias, interview answer authenticity, test assignment design
• 25 templates and sample documents: screening scorecard, 45-minute interview agenda, test assignment scorecard, final hiring scorecard
• 22 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: screening criteria matrix, CV maturity rating scale, potential versus experience hiring matrix, STAR evidence completeness table
• 22 ready AI prompts: STAR answer analysis, finalist comparison, CV risk analysis, test assignment generation
• 9 other working tools and 5 metric sets: product manager test assignment, marketer test assignment, team lead feedback role-play, hiring decision tree
• 80 models and methods explained with examples: structured interview, SHL Universal Competency Framework, Big Five personality model, work sample assessment
• 13 services shown on screen, including Culture Amp, 15Five, Spidergap, HURMA and Cornerstone TalentLink

Where the tools are

The screening system (6 sections, 127 tools). Competencies, CVs, LinkedIn, structured interviews, assessments, tests and decisions.

360-degree feedback (1 section, 52 tools). Using 360 feedback in screening.

Competency-based interviewing (1 section, 63 tools). Questions and evaluation.

Interviewing skills (1 section, 47 tools). STAR questions and interview technique.

Assessment centres (1 section, 63 tools). Designing and running them.

Scorecards and personality tests (2 sections, 42 tools). Objective scoring and careful use of tests.

Who is teaching

I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.

I learned to assess my first candidates at Alfa-Bank in 2005 and 2006. I joined as a loan specialist, was soon invited to HR, trained in recruiting and training others, and became a trainer-recruiter: I selected loan specialists and trained them, so I saw every week whether my selection decisions held up on the job.

How to use the course

Start with the screening system sections, then use the interviewing, assessment and scorecard sections for your roles. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.

What is included

• 40 lectures across 13 sections, 20 hours
• 70 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and 30 working files
• 342 tools across the lessons, including 13 services shown on screen
• A 10-question practice test, a quiz and a role play
• Lifetime access to all materials
• Active instructor support in the Q&A section
• A Udemy Certificate of Completion

Where to start

Take the last hire that did not work out and write what the interview missed, then open the first section. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.