1. Pre-check your shortlist. Don’t waste any time by interviewing candidates you can check aren’t right, e.g. salary requirements

2. Confirm your interview panel. Are they relevant, trained, engaged and fully briefed?

3. If video interviewing, make sure your interviewers follow the correct etiquette

4. Provide a full confirmation to candidates – time, place, interviewer names, interview structure

5. Provide a full job description, company overview and details of salary and benefits (see 1)

6. Have all interviewers read interviewee CVs and supplementary info beforehand

7. In the interview, check candidates are comfortable. Give them your full attention

8. At the end of the interview answer any questions they may have and explain the remainder of the interview process, including realistic time-frames

9. Book time in your diary post interviews to review the interviews, with a view to providing objective feedback to candidates. This should be within 2 working days of the last interview

10. Follow the shortest path between CV review and offer, to make sure you don’t lose candidates to other opportunities

These will result in a better likelihood of coming across well to candidates you want to employ.