Red Flags That Sound Junior

Know the Vocabulary

This lesson uses the terms below many times. Read them once now, and come back here when a later section needs one.

• Red flag: A sentence that makes a candidate sound less experienced than they are. The design behind it may be sound, but the words hide that.
• Rubric: The scoring sheet an interviewer fills in after the interview. It has one row for each skill being graded.
• Borderline decision: A hiring decision that could go either way, because the candidate did some rubric rows well and others less well.