Before You Interview: A Practical Guide to More Inclusive Interviews

Bring your commitment to inclusion into the interview.

You’ve invited candidates from different backgrounds to apply. Now prepare an interview that helps them demonstrate the capabilities the role actually requires.

How will your team recognize relevant skills across different backgrounds and experiences?

✔ Work through six preparation decisions to connect interview questions and evaluation criteria to the role.

✔ Examine the evidence behind each assessment, including assumptions about familiar career paths, shared interests, or presentation style.

✔ Use practical examples and fillable worksheets to plan questions, candidate participation, and how your team will evaluate answers.

Before You Interview: A Practical Guide to More Inclusive Interviews

Bring your commitment to inclusion into the interview.

You’ve invited candidates from different backgrounds to apply. Now prepare an interview that helps them demonstrate the capabilities the role actually requires.

How will your team recognize relevant skills across different backgrounds and experiences?

✔ Work through six preparation decisions to connect interview questions and evaluation criteria to the role.

✔ Examine the evidence behind each assessment, including assumptions about familiar career paths, shared interests, or presentation style.

✔ Use practical examples and fillable worksheets to plan questions, candidate participation, and how your team will evaluate answers.

What’s Inside the Guide

💡 Relevant experience can come from different settings. Explore a worked example showing how candidate answers connect to the same job-related criteria.

💡 “They’d fit right in” needs a clearer explanation. Learn how to connect interview questions and ratings to capabilities the role actually requires.

💡 Candidates need clear information to prepare and participate. Review interview instructions, access arrangements, and a route to request reasonable accommodation.

💡 Inclusive hiring requires examining the assumptions behind an assessment. Use debrief questions to discuss evidence, explain rating differences, and identify what remains unclear.

Created by Diversity.com to support employers’ inclusive hiring efforts, the guide includes a completed interview plan, fillable planning and evidence worksheets, and a team checklist.

If you’re a recruiter, HR professional, hiring manager, or interview panel member working to make interviews more inclusive, this guide is built for you.

📥 Download the Inclusive Interview Guide and put your commitment to inclusion into practice when preparing your next interview.

DOWNLOAD THE INCLUSIVE INTERVIEW GUIDE

DOWNLOAD THE INCLUSIVE INTERVIEW GUIDE

What’s Inside the Guide?

💡 Relevant experience can come from different settings. Explore a worked example showing how candidate answers connect to the same job-related criteria.

💡 “They’d fit right in” needs a clearer explanation. Learn how to connect interview questions and ratings to capabilities the role actually requires.

💡 Candidates need clear information to prepare and participate. Review interview instructions, access arrangements, and a route to request reasonable accommodation.

💡 Inclusive hiring requires examining the assumptions behind an assessment. Use debrief questions to discuss evidence, explain rating differences, and identify what remains unclear.

Created by Diversity.com to support employers’ inclusive hiring efforts, the guide includes a completed interview plan, fillable planning and evidence worksheets, and a team checklist.

If you’re a recruiter, HR professional, hiring manager, or interview panel member working to make interviews more inclusive, this guide is built for you.

📥 Download the Inclusive Interview Guide and put your commitment to inclusion into practice when preparing your next interview.