Human Capital MBA

Structured Interviews, Assessment Centers and Hiring Decisions: Why the Evidence Favors the Formula Over the Committee's Final Discussion

How to actually build a structured interview, situational versus behavioral questions, scoring anchors and panel design, what assessment centers really measure once the exercise effect is accounted for, and why decades of research keep finding that adding scores mechanically beats letting a hiring committee talk its way to a final decision, a conclusion most organizations know and resist in roughly equal measure.

2 Nov 2026 · 28 min read