Interview Guide: What is a Structured Interview?

Understand what a structured interview is and how you can use standardized questions to systematically collect and analyze responses.

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Niklas Silfverström
November 6, 2023
6 min
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Interview Guide: What is a Structured Interview?

When you conduct a structured interview, you ask a number of standardized questions in a specific order. You then collect the answers and analyze them based on a rating system.

This is a much stricter way of conducting an interview compared to an unstructured or semi-structured interview that allows you to be more flexible with the questions you ask. The advantages of asking standardized questions are that you can more easily compare results between many interviews while also maintaining a consistent conversation.

To get the best value from a structured interview as possible, we recommend that you:

  • Have a clear purpose with the interview
  • Have well-thought-out questions that maximize the value from the interview
  • Ask clear questions that allow open and honest answers

Use Klang.ai in a Structured Interview

A structured interview can be easy to compare and analyze against other similar interviews.

You can use tools like Klang.ai to automatically transcribe, summarize, and analyze a structured interview. In the service, you can also use the "Questions and answers" function to automatically get summaries of your questions in the interview. This works as an excellent tool for then analyzing a structured interview against others.

If you want to test Klang.ai, you can create a free account on our website and see how it works.