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WEEK 4 · PILLAR 1 · STRUCTURED EVALUATION

Actionable Note-Taking

WHAT IT IS

Actionable note-taking means capturing what the candidate actually said and did — near-verbatim and tagged to a competency — during the interview, not reconstructing it from memory afterwards. Notes are the evidence your score has to point back to.

WHY IT MATTERS

Memory is reconstructive. By the time you open the scorecard, a vivid moment and your gut feeling have replaced the details. Contemporaneous notes protect the candidate from your bias and your debrief from guesswork.

Inside the full lesson
  • • 3 practical rules to use in your next interview
  • • Signal-vs-noise lab: 2 real interview moments, weak vs. strong interviewer
  • • What goes wrong when teams skip it
  • • 3 realistic scenarios to test your judgement, with XP and streaks
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