A practical bank of HR investigation interview questions — what to ask complainants, witnesses, and subjects, and the leading questions that quietly wreck a case.

Handed your first internal interview with no training? Follow eight steps, from a one-page plan to a word-for-word opening script, and run it fairly and defensibly.

The interview decides your workplace investigation. Here's a step-by-step, science-based interviewing process—plan, free recall, open questions, strategic evidence disclosure, and a clean close—to run one that's fair, defensible, and actually gets to the truth.

AI in criminal investigations is only as good as the interviews feeding it. Science-based interviewing produces detailed, corroborable accounts an algorithm can actually use — accusatorial methods contaminate the dataset before analysis ever begins.