Job interviews Lead professionally and make accurate decisions – your Interview guide for valid personnel selection
Making accurate hiring decisions is challenging. Many selection interviews appear well-conducted at first glance, yet still result in poor decisions – often due to a lack of structure, unclear requirements, and typical assessment errors. A professional Interview guide This provides a clear framework. Structured, scientifically sound and perfectly suited to every job family. That's exactly what INFO GmbH delivers.
With the Interview Suite and the Multimodal Interview (MMO®), you combine a practical and easy-to-use approach with a high predictive power for professional success. The methodology originally dates back to Prof. Schuler and has been consistently further developed by the psychologists at INFO GmbH. This provides you with an interview standard that is valid, practical, and applicable to all target groups.
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Multimodal interviews: elements, methodology, question pools
A multimodal interview guide combines several proven interview elements and ensures a systematic, fair and meaningful assessment.
The MMO® integrates:
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Elements, methodology
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Question pool for experienced professionals
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Question pool for career starters
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Public area
1. Elements, Methodology
A multimodal interview guide combines several proven interview elements and ensures a systematic, fair, and meaningful assessment. The MMO® integrates:
- Free and biographical questions
- Situational Questions / Critical Incidents – proven questions, selected from the comprehensive question pool to suit your requirements.
- Microsimulations (mini role-playing games) that are integrated dialogically into the conversation flow.
- Optional short presentations or other function-specific performance sequences
This multi-method approach creates a holistic picture of the candidates – objective, comparable and well-founded.
2. Question pool for experienced professionals
The interview guidelines are precisely compiled from extensive question pools according to the job requirements profile or occupational group / job family, and aligned with your organization's competency model.
For Experienced professionals Over 200 meaningful situational questions / critical incidents are available, which allow you to reliably assess all relevant key competencies (social, personal and methodological competencies).
Our motto: We measure everything – except expertise.
3. Question pool for career starters
There is a special question pool for Career starters (trainees and dual students) with over 160 proven situational questions / brain teasers.
4. Public area
Separate question pools are available for the public sector (e.g. municipalities, cities, authorities and other public institutions) to capture specific requirements such as service and citizen orientation, diversity or economic public welfare orientation.
All interviews are based on clear evaluation criteria, standardized scales, and detailed behavioral expectations derived from your job profile. The approach is valid and highly predictive. The evaluation is efficient, including an automated results profile that highlights strengths and areas for development at a glance.
How to conduct job interviews correctly – Here's how to succeed step by step with our interview guides
A well-founded Personnel selection interview It follows a clear process. The interview suite guides recruiters and managers through five structured steps:
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start of conversation
Multimodal interviews: elements, methodology, question pools -
Self-presentation: free & biographical section
Recording of professional and function-specific relevant experiences, role understanding, professional developments or expectations.
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Situational questions
Practical brain teasers and critical incidents with clearly defined evaluation anchors, tailored to success-critical competency areas. -
Micro simulations
Short, dialogic role-playing games that directly address situational questions and make real behavior visible.
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Activity information & conclusion of the conversation
Mutual clarification of expectations, realistic information about the position, and conscious strengthening of the bond with the company.
The methodology systematically reduces typical assessment errors such as halo effects, primacy and recency effects, contrast effects, implicit personality theories, as well as leniency, severity and mean-tendency errors, and significantly increases the professional and social quality of job interviews.
The multimodal interview MMO® creates transparency, comparability and fairness – for both applicants and decision-makers.
If you have any questions, just ask!
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Optimizing Recruiting – More Quality, Less Effort
An interview guide based on MMO® significantly increases the predictive power of the interviews. The interview suite offers:
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High validity
The predictive power for career success is scientifically proven (validity up to r = .52). -
Lower susceptibility to errors
through structure and process and multiple safeguards in the question modules with behaviorally anchored rating scales. -
Time and cost savings
compared to classic assessment center methods, while maintaining high diagnostic quality. -
High acceptance
for applicants, recruiters and managers through a familiar conversation framework with significantly increased professionalism. -
High precision fit
through individual adaptation of the guidelines to job families, function profiles and corporate culture.
An ideal complement is the combination of an MMO® interview with the Personality-Motive Compass. In this process, relevant personality traits and motives are recorded in the self-image and deepened or verified through the external image in the interview – for a holistic and at the same time efficient aptitude diagnostics.
Why INFO GmbH – Your partner for professional interview methodology
- Over 30 years of experience in the design and implementation of aptitude assessment procedures.
- Scientifically sound, practical and easy-to-use guides
- Extensive, long-established question pools for career starters and experienced professionals in various industries.
- Separate question pools and interview guides for the public sector (e.g., cities, municipalities, administrations).
- Individual adaptation of the guidelines to your competency model, your corporate culture and your specific role profiles.
- Briefing of recruiters, training of managers and train-the-trainer formats for the safe application of interview methodology in everyday practice.
Managers benefit beyond personnel selection: Experience shows that systematic questioning and observation has a positive impact on employee interviews, feedback sessions, and everyday leadership situations.
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FREQUENTLY QUESTIONS ASKED
Here we answer the most important questions about our services and working methods. If your question isn't answered here, please write to us – we'll get back to you within two business days.
What is an interview guide and why is it indispensable in recruiting?
An interview guide structures the conversation, ensures that all relevant competencies are systematically and comparably assessed, and makes decisions transparent. It reduces subjective biases and observational errors and increases the validity of personnel selection.
What are the distinguishing features of the Multimodal Interview (MMO®)?
The Multimodal Interview (MMO®) combines biographical and open-ended questions, situational questions, critical incidents, microsimulations, and clear evaluation anchors. The methodology originates from Prof. Schuler and has been further developed by INFO GmbH. This results in a high predictive power for professional success.
For which target groups is the MMO® suitable?
The MMO® is suitable for trainees, career starters, specialists and managers in all industries, as well as for the public sector. With the interview suite from INFO GmbH, all target groups within a company are covered by appropriate, requirements-oriented interview guides.
How do microsimulations support the personnel selection interview?
Microsimulations are short, dialogue-based role-playing exercises that address situational questions. They demonstrate how candidates would actually act in typical key situations. This significantly increases the validity of the assessment and supports more accurate decisions.
Are there interview guidelines for municipalities and authorities?
Yes. INFO GmbH offers its own question banks and interview guides for the public sector, e.g., for cities, municipalities, state and federal authorities. These cover topics such as economic viability, diversity, and a professional approach to citizen concerns.
How does an interview guide contribute to optimization in recruiting?
A structured interview guide ensures clarity, comparability, and high predictive accuracy in recruiting. It supports HR and managers in efficiently preparing, documenting, and justifying personnel selection interviews – while simultaneously reducing mis-hires and subsequent costs.
Can the multimodal interview be combined with other diagnostic tools?
Yes. The combination with the Personality-Motivation Compass (PMC) or other modules of the INFO GmbH test suite is particularly useful. This allows for an ideal, multi-perspective combination of self-image and external image, enabling a sound assessment of strengths, motives, and areas for development.
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