Tools, Frameworks & Implementation Proficiency Topics
Practical proficiency with industry-standard tools and frameworks including project management (Jira, Azure DevOps), productivity tools (Excel, spreadsheet analysis), development tools and environments, and framework setup. Focuses on hands-on tool expertise, configuration, best practices, and optimization rather than conceptual knowledge. Complements technical categories by addressing implementation tooling.
Technical Tools and Competency
Assess the candidates practical experience with business intelligence and operational tools, their depth of proficiency, and their ability to learn and apply new systems. Topics to cover include which business intelligence platforms they have used such as Power BI, Tableau, and Looker, the duration and level of hands on experience with each, specific projects where they built dashboards or reports, and the candidates role in data modeling and visualization. Also include familiarity with general operational tools such as spreadsheet software, analytics platforms, project management systems, human resources information systems, and other domain specific software. Candidates should be ready to explain tool selection, how they integrated data sources, any involvement in implementation or configuration, examples of key metrics and dashboards they built, and how they troubleshoot or improve existing reports. For junior level candidates, emphasize practical skills such as creating dashboards, designing reports, basic data modeling, cleaning and preparing data, and demonstrating learning agility for company specific systems. For mid and senior levels, assess deeper topics such as automating extract transform load processes, optimizing data models, writing structured query language queries or scripts for data transformation, governance and sharing practices, and mentoring others on tool usage.
Systems and Tools Familiarity
Assess a candidate's familiarity with operational and domain specific software systems, general enterprise tools, and process documentation practices. Topics include experience with matter management, e discovery, contract management, case or ticketing systems, project management platforms, and other business or legal technology stacks. Candidates should be able to describe how they used these tools to support process improvements, documentation, onboarding, integrations, or day to day operations, and explain their ability to learn and adopt new systems quickly. For junior candidates emphasize awareness of common platforms, basic configuration or usage, collaboration patterns with technical teams, and examples of how tooling enabled operational improvements.