What is the Interview Questions Analysis?
Writing good interview questions from scratch is slow, and questions borrowed from a generic bank rarely connect to what the position actually does. That gap matters in public sector hiring: when a selection decision is challenged, you want every interview question traceable to the duties and qualifications in the classified spec.
Interview Questions Analysis reads a spec's duties, qualifications, and required competencies and produces a set of interview questions tied directly to them. The questions are a starting point for building a structured interview process, not a finished script: expect to select, edit, and supplement them with your hiring manager.
Common Use Cases
Building an Interview Guide for a Recruitment
You're opening a recruitment and need a question set that maps to the spec. Run the analysis, pull the questions worth keeping, and export the results as the first draft of your interview guide.
Checking Interview Alignment After a Spec Update
When a classification is substantially revised, the interview materials built for the old version quietly go stale. Rerun the analysis after a rewrite to see what a current-duties question set looks like next to your existing guide.
Running This Analysis
Interview Questions Analysis runs on one spec at a time. For the steps, see How to Run an Analysis on a Class Specification.
Note: Your agency's configuration determines which analyses are included for your account, so this analysis may not be available to you. Questions about your configuration? Contact Holly Support at [email protected].
Understanding Your Results
The analysis produces a set of interview questions in the floating analysis window, each grounded in specific duties, qualifications, or competencies from the spec. Because the questions come from the spec's content, the output is only as strong as the spec itself: a thin or outdated spec produces thin questions, which is itself useful information about the spec.
A few things to keep in mind as you work with the questions:
Treat the set as a menu, not a script. Select the questions that fit the competencies your panel needs to assess, and cut the rest.
Edit for your context. The questions reflect the spec's language; adjust phrasing for your agency's interview format and rating criteria.
Route through your normal review. Interview materials typically go through HR review before use, and generated questions are no exception.
When your set is ready, use Export in the analysis window to download the questions as a docx file you can shape into the interview guide.