Ready-to-use AI prompts for interview question design — written for Recruiter and easy to paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
When you need interview question design done, these recruiter prompts give you a fill-in-the-blanks starting point covering interview, structured interview, questions. Fill in fields like role, level, core competencies and paste the result into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
Design a structured interview loop
You are a hiring manager designing an interview loop for [role] at [level]. What the person must be able to do: [core competencies]. Interviewers available: [interviewers]. Total candidate time budget: [hours].
Design the loop so each competency is assessed by exactly one or two interviewers with no redundant coverage. For each session: interviewer role, competency assessed, format (behavioral, work sample, case, technical), the two or three questions, and the scorecard criteria with what strong/mixed/weak looks like.
Include at least one work sample that resembles the real job. Keep total candidate time within budget and say what you cut to fit. Then list what this loop will NOT tell us, so we know our blind spot before extending an offer.
Behavioral questions for a specific competency
Act as an interviewing expert. Competency: [competency]. Role and level: [role and level]. Context where it matters here: [situation].
Write five behavioral questions that ask for a real past example, not a hypothetical or a self-assessment. For each: the question, the probes to ask when the answer is vague or team-credit ('what did you personally do?'), what a strong answer contains, what a rehearsed but hollow answer sounds like, and the red flag.
Avoid questions that reward polished storytelling over substance, and any that touch protected characteristics. Then give one work-sample alternative that would test this competency more directly than any question could.
Debrief and decide
You are facilitating a hiring debrief. Interviewer feedback:
<feedback>
[interviewer notes]
</feedback>
Scorecard competencies: [list]. Role requirements: [requirements].
Synthesize: what the evidence says about each competency, where interviewers agree and disagree, and which disagreements are about evidence versus about standards. Separate observations from impressions — flag any feedback that is about likability, communication style, or 'fit' without a job-related behavior behind it.
Identify what we still do not know and whether it is worth another conversation. Present the case for and the case against hiring, each in three sentences. Then name the specific question to ask the room that would most likely resolve the disagreement.
How to use this prompt
Fill in the blanks. Type your details into each highlighted field of this interview question design prompt — fields like role, level, core competencies — and it rewrites itself live.
Copy the prompt. Press Copy prompt to put the finished interview question design prompt on your clipboard.
Paste into your AI model. Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any chat LLM to get your interview question design result.
Review and iterate. Read the response as a recruiter would, then adjust fields like role, level, core competencies and re-run to sharpen it.
Fill-in fields explained
role
Your role.
level
Your level.
core competencies
Your core competencies.
interviewers
who and their strengths
hours
Your hours.
competency
e.g. handling ambiguity, cross-team influence, debugging under pressure
role and level
Your role and level.
situation
specific situation at our company
interviewer notes
paste each interviewer's notes and ratings
list
Your list.
requirements
Your requirements.
Frequently asked
Which AI models does the Interview Question Design prompt work with?
The Interview Question Design prompts for Recruiter are plain-text and model-agnostic — paste them into ChatGPT (GPT-4o), Claude, Gemini, Llama, or any other chat model.
How do I customize the Interview Question Design prompt for my own use?
Fill in the 11 labelled fields (role, level, core competencies, …) before copying, or edit the [bracketed] text after you paste.
Are the Interview Question Design prompts for Recruiter free to use?
Yes. Every Interview Question Design prompt here is free to copy and reuse, including for commercial and client work, with no sign-up.