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Hiring for Attitude · Services & training

Better hires.
Stronger teams.

Bring clarity to your hiring decisions. Identify the attitudes that drive success in your organization, ask questions that reveal them, and give every interviewer a consistent way to evaluate the answers.

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Consulting, team training, and practical resources from Mark Murphy, author of Hiring for Attitude.

Mark Murphy holding Hiring for Attitude, with his New York Times bestselling author and BookAuthority best hiring books badges
Mark MurphyFounder, Leadership IQ · Author of Hiring for Attitude

Find your starting point

Choose how we
work together.

Build a custom hiring system, develop your interviewers, or get the tools to put the method into practice yourself.

Work directly with Mark Murphy

Build the system around your organization

Consulting

A complete Hiring for Attitude process, built around the attitudes that distinguish your high performers and the roles you need to fill.

  • A custom success profile drawn from your performance data
  • Interview questions with detailed guidelines for strong and weak answers
  • Hiring manager training and ongoing online certification
  • Recruiting messaging aligned with your success profile

A good fit when you want a consistent hiring process across your organization.

Discuss a consulting engagement

Develop the people doing the hiring

Custom training

Help your managers become more effective interviewers with a program taught by Mark Murphy and tailored to your roles, culture, and priorities.

  • Onsite or virtual delivery, with a customized agenda
  • Half-day, one-day, and two-day formats
  • Interactive exercises, case studies, and interview practicums
  • A certification exam for attendees on completion

A good fit when you want practical training for your hiring managers.

Discuss training for your team

Prefer to learn and implement at your own pace?

Two ways to get started with the same Hiring for Attitude method.

For an organization rolling out the tools

Turnkey System

Ready-made interview and recruiting resources, with lifetime access for your whole organization through one purchase.

  • 15 attitudes and 60 real-life answer guidelines
  • 20 training videos and five PDFs, including interview tools and sample job ads
  • A private one-hour consultation with Mark Murphy
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For hiring managers & HR professionals

4-Week Certificate Course

A structured way to develop your interviewing skills: four weekly modules, completed at your own pace within each week.

  • About two hours a week for four weeks
  • Attitudinal questions, answer guidelines, and techniques for analyzing candidate responses
  • A Hiring for Attitude certificate on completion
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The method behind every option

A shared standard for
better hiring decisions.

Connect the attitudes your organization needs to the questions you ask, the answers you look for, and the way you recruit.

  1. Define success

    Identify your “Brown Shorts”: the attitudes and behaviors that distinguish your high performers.

  2. Ask & evaluate

    Use structured interview questions and diagnosed answer guidelines to recognize evidence of those attitudes.

  3. Train your interviewers

    Give managers the practice and shared standards to apply the process consistently.

  4. Align your recruiting

    Shape your recruiting messages to attract candidates with the attitudes your organization values.

Hiring for Attitude by Mark Murphy

From the research to the interview room

Work with the
author of the method.

Mark Murphy’s Hiring for Attitude turns Leadership IQ’s research into practical tools for selecting and interviewing candidates. The consulting, training, and self-guided programs bring those tools into your organization.

Read the original hiring research
Watch Mark introduce Hiring for Attitude

A few useful answers

Find the right fit
for your team.

Which option should we choose?

Consulting builds the process around your organization. Custom training develops your interviewers through a tailored program. The Turnkey System gives your company ready-made tools to implement internally, and the four-week course offers structured development for individual hiring managers and HR professionals. If you’re unsure, start with a conversation.

Can the training be tailored to our organization?

Yes. We tailor the agenda, content, and duration to your roles, culture, and goals. Onsite and virtual delivery are available, with half-day, one-day, and two-day formats.

What does “Brown Shorts” mean?

It’s our shorthand for the attitudes that distinguish your high performers. The method turns those attitudes into specific behaviors, interview questions, and answer guidelines your managers can use.

Let’s talk about your hiring

Build your team
with more confidence.

You don’t need to choose an option first. Tell us what you’re working on, and we’ll help you decide where to start.

  • The hiring challenges you want to solve
  • The roles and teams you’re hiring for
  • How many managers are involved in hiring

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