Preparing Interview Questions

Building a role is step one; giving it questions is step two. Now that your role exists, this is where you decide what every interviewer will ask at each stage of the process. Strong, prepared questions keep your team consistent and compliant — everyone covers the right topics, Lavalier flags anything that could pose legal risk, and every candidate gets the same fair, structured experience before you bring them in.

Adding Questions to an Interview Stage

1. Open your role and click Structure & Questions
2. Find the interview stage you want to add questions to
3. Click into that stage to see the Interview Questions section

Now you can add questions in two ways:

Let Lavalier generate questions:

• Click Add Question and Lavalier will suggest relevant questions based on your role
• Lavalier also generates follow-up questions for each main question, shown as nested bullet points beneath it
• Review the suggestions and select the ones you want
• Need more options? Click Generate New Questions to see additional suggestions

Write your own:

• Click Type a Question Manually
• Enter your question text and save

Important: Lavalier flags questions that might pose legal risk or aren't relevant to your role. Pay attention to these warnings to keep your interview process compliant and focused.

Organizing Your Questions

Once you've added questions:

• Drag and drop to reorder them
• Use Topics to see covered and suggested topics, then click any topic to generate questions for it
• Edit or delete questions as your needs change
• Manage follow-up questions — click Add follow-up beneath any question to add your own, or edit, reorder, and remove existing follow-ups

Tip: Tailor questions for a specific interview by clicking Prepare from the Hiring Feed, then Edit Questions.

What's next?

With your questions set, it's time to bring in the people you'll interview. Once candidates are in your pipeline, these questions will be waiting automatically for each conversation.

Add candidates to a role →