So here you are, face to face with a potential employer to discuss an agile job posting. You’ve arrived armed with your 10 Scrum Master Interview Questions and copies of your freshly printed resume, but how do you set yourself apart from the other Scrum Master candidates?

I propose the Taskboard Interview.

Step 1 – Bring a pen and a stack of post-its.

Step 2 – Request the interview be conducted in a room with a white board (chances are it’s a tech company, and you’re already in one).

Step 3 - Ask the interviewer to write out his or her questions on the post-its.

Step 4 - Draw three columns on the white board, and label them from left to right “to answer”, “answering” and “answered”

Step 5 – Stick the post-its on the “to answer” column, and as you address each one move them into “answering” and finally “answered”

This may seem a bit far fetched and unconventional for a job interview, but I’d love to have a candidate pitch their skills to me in this fashion. It would set them apart from the others by vividly illustrating their passion and knowledge of agile.