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The Exact Questions We Use To Reject 97% Of Applicants.

The complete vetting kit we run on every overseas candidate: interview questions, scorecards, red flag catalog, test tasks, reference scripts, and portfolio verification. Use it on your very next interview. Instant access.

Your Interview Process Is The Leak

Be honest. You probably do most of these:

?Ask the same 5 questions every interview
?Believe the resume when it says "5 years experience"
?Skim the portfolio for 30 seconds and call it vetting
?Take the reference call at face value
?Hire on vibes and hope it works out
?Only find out you got fooled in week 3
Here's What You Get

The complete toolkit:

47 interview questions with what to listen for
A live scorecard you fill out during the call
12 red flags that should kill an interview on the spot
3 test tasks calibrated by role
A reference check script that surfaces the truth
Portfolio verification process (steal-checks + AI-checks)
Communication tests built into every step

YES! SEND ME THE KIT!

The Vetting Interview Kit
Talent placed at
Mad RealitiesRed Light SystemsVoaderaSRANWaldoVirtue

How It Works

1

Place Your Order

One-time payment, no subscription. Instant access, no call required.

2

Open The Kit

Get the full PDF plus the fillable scorecard template the moment you check out. Print it, save it, or pull it up on your second screen.

3

Use It On Your Next Interview

Run a candidate through the kit and you'll catch in 30 minutes what most founders miss across 3 interviews.

What’s In The Kit
PDF + SCORECARD

Everything you get the moment you check out:

47
Interview Questions
12
Red Flags
3
Test Tasks
1
Scorecard Template
1
Reference Script
1
Portfolio Verification SOP
Sample interview question
Q 14 / 47Skill Verification

“Walk me through the last project on your portfolio. What part did you personally build, what part did someone else build, and what would you do differently if you started today?”

What to listen for
×Vague ownership of specific decisions (red flag)
×Cannot name what they would change (red flag)
Names tradeoffs and constraints (green)

Inside The Kit

Four sections. Everything you need to interview a candidate the way we do. Use it on your very next call.

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47 Interview Questions With Scorecards

Every question is paired with what to listen for: the answers that signal real skill, the answers that signal coached BS, and a 1-5 score box you fill out in real time.

Section 1 · Interview Questions
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Your First Hire
Why this role
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The 12 Red Flag Catalog

The exact signals that make us cut a candidate inside the first 10 minutes, ranked by how often they show up and how dangerous they are. Spot the ones your gut would miss.

Section 2 · Red Flag Catalog
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Red Flag
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Test Tasks & Portfolio Verification

3 test tasks calibrated by role plus the verification process we run on every portfolio (reverse image search, AI detection, ownership probes). Catches plagiarism and AI slop in under 10 minutes.

Section 3 · Test Task Checklist
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Reference Scripts & Communication Tests

The exact reference check call script that surfaces what the candidate would not want you to know, plus communication tests built into every step of the interview.

Section 4 · Reference Check Script
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Zack Allen
Zack Allen
Founder, Talented

Almost every founder I talk to is sure they can tell a good candidate from a bad one on a 30 minute call. Almost none of them can. I include myself in that for the first few years.

The candidates who get through a gut-feel interview are the candidates who interview well, which is a completely different skill from doing the job well. The kit I’m selling here exists because we got burned enough times to build a real process that catches what charm hides.

We run this exact kit on every single candidate that comes through our funnel. It is the reason we reject 97% of them and only present the 3% to clients. Now it’s yours.

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From The Founders We’ve Hired For

Surpassed my expectations, beating out a much larger recruiting agency.

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Spencer, Ballard Products
$6M/yr eComm Business

He's top tier. I've hired with him twice and it's helped me build tenfold.

Steve
Steve
$1M/yr Amazon Business

The king of VA knowledge.

Ed, ERE Sneakers
Ed, ERE Sneakers
$10M+/yr eComm Business

I expect to have major pieces of my companies from the people I've hired through him.

Tim Soros
Tim Soros
$12M/yr eComm Business

Working with Zack was a breeze. I would highly recommend it.

Zach, Red Light Systems
Zach, Red Light Systems
$1M+/yr Marketing Agency

I will be recommending you in a heartbeat.

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Shay, tidytrade
$1M+/yr Wholesale Business

Common Questions

What exactly do I get?

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A PDF with 47 interview questions (each with what to listen for), 12 red flags ranked by severity, 3 test tasks calibrated by role, a reference check script, and a portfolio verification SOP. Plus a fillable scorecard template to use during the interview itself.

Will this work for non-overseas hires too?

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Yes. The questions, scorecards, and reference scripts work on any candidate. The portfolio verification and communication tests are tuned for remote hires specifically, which makes them brutal for overseas vetting and still useful for any other remote role.

How is this different from interview question lists I can Google?

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A Google list gives you questions. This gives you the answers you should listen for, the answers that should disqualify a candidate immediately, and the exact scoring rubric we use across 28,000+ applicants. The questions are the easy part. Knowing what a good answer sounds like is the hard part.

What if I want you to just vet candidates for me?

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That's most of what we do. The kit is a fraction of our full process. After you read it, we'll show you what the done-for-you version looks like. No call required to get there.

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Questions
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Red Flags
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Test Tasks
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References
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