Adjacent Idea Suggestion: We should record job interviews. Then both sides can review at their leisure. Maybe then we can start improving. -- Origin of Ide

Adjacent Idea Suggestion: We should record job interviews. Then both sides can review at their leisure. Maybe then we can start improving. -- Origin of Idea: I ran for office. Lots of endorsement interviews. It's just as bad as you'd expect. Comparable to our industry's hazing rituals. The better interviews were recorded. The best were shown on TV, available online. Somehow everyone's better behaved when there's witnesses. (I quickly learned to make and release my own recordings of endorsement interviews.) -- We should practice interviewing. Just like public speaking, stump speeches, etc. Ages ago, I worked at a place that took recruiting and interviewing seriously. We had agendas, checklists, scripts, surveys. We practiced on each other, switching roles. We did all hand's debrief after each candidate. We treated our interviews as seriously as our usability labs. Though we mocked the term at the time, I miss "learning organizations". When some of us at least tried to get better. Okay, rant over.