As the person being hired: the process should help me reject workplaces that I would not enjoy, succeed, or grow at. I should get accepted into any place that s

As the person being hired: the process should help me reject workplaces that I would not enjoy, succeed, or grow at. I should get accepted into any place that satisfies the above criteria. As someone doing the hiring: the process should help order applicants by the value they will provide to the company, accounting for future growth and current abilities. In both cases it should do so as quickly as possible, to avoid wasting my time. Sadly, neither of these are really realistic, but starting from these first principles, you can see a few simple things that can improve the process: Early rejection in both directions, settings expectations, and that the interview is a two-way street and while some interview strategies may work in one direction, they will alienate the other side so quickly they are ineffective on the whole. I have some ideas regarding the rest, but nothing that hasn't been mentioned elsewhere.