I’m glad to share that my new book, Recruiters Interview Blueprint: The RECRUIT System for Structured Interviewing, Better Questions and Evidence-Based Hiring Decisions, is now live and available everywhere books are sold.
Most interviews fail quietly. The recruiter likes the candidate, the hiring manager has a good feeling, and six months later the hire isn’t working out and no one can say exactly why the process missed it.
Drawing on nearly four decades spent on both sides of the interview table, in the Indian Army and then in corporate HR and staffing, I wrote this as a practical field guide built around the RECRUIT system: Role Clarity, Expectation Alignment, Competency Mapping, Real Evidence, Uncover Depth, Independent Scoring, and Take the Decision. It gives recruiters, hiring managers and HR professionals a repeatable way to define the role properly, ask questions that produce real evidence, probe without interrogating, and reach a hiring decision the whole panel can stand behind.
Inside, you will find a complete question bank organized by competency, worked scorecards and debrief templates, a chapter on the Transfer Test for senior hires moving between very different environments, and a dedicated chapter on interviewing in the age of AI-assisted candidates. Twenty ready-to-use tools turn every framework in the book into paperwork you can put in front of a hiring manager tomorrow.
Published under Global Learning Centre, with a foreword by Cecil Prem T, Founder and Partner of Advik Talent Search and HR Solutions LLP.
What early readers are saying
I read the Recruiters Interview Blueprint in detail and with a lot of interest. My sincere compliments for this document. It is outstanding. I was very happy to relate it with our own Officers Interview process at SSB. I found the similarity really fascinating. Structure, the structure of the document is very logical and it is evident it is built on years of your personal experience. Your RECRUIT system is very logically built and if used correctly by recruiters, can surely ensure apt selection of the candidate for the role required. Defining the Role rightly is the starting point. I especially liked your Chapter 6 with its question bank. Chapter 8 is bang on. We need a structured Interview system, not a gut-based question-and-answer session. In SSB, of course, we have a very structured Interview format. A structured scorecard, as you suggested, is a must and should ideally be filled immediately after each interview. Overall, I found the document very structured and logical. Our SSB Interview system is also aligned similarly, with the nuances we need. A great job, I must say. All the best. May this document assist thousands of recruiters in future.
— Brigadier Amrendra Narayan (Retd.), former President, Services Selection Board (SSB)
The Transfer Test asks an important senior-hiring question: not simply whether a candidate succeeded before, but whether the mechanism behind that success is likely to transfer to the environment being hired for.
— Cecil Prem T, Founder and Partner, Advik Talent Search and HR Solutions LLP (from the Foreword)
Get the book
Amazon (India, Kindle): https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0HJZYXND6
Amazon (US, Kindle): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJZYXND6
Amazon (US, Paperback): https://www.amazon.com/dp/9334470879
Gumroad (direct): https://shajikumar.gumroad.com/l/recruiters-interview-blueprint
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