Build an interview guide

An interview guide is a structured set of questions and scoring criteria you use during a candidate interview. The platform’s guides are linked to the role and the capabilities you’ve defined for it.

Open the interview guide

From a job’s detail page (Sidebar then Recruitment, click the job):

1. Interview guide tab.

If a guide already exists for this role, you see it. Otherwise the page offers:

• Build from a template. Pick from your saved interview templates (configured under Settings, see Configure interview templates).
• Build from scratch.

Build a guide

The guide is split into sections:

• Background and motivation. Open questions to understand the candidate’s career arc and why they’re interested.
• Capability questions. One block per capability you’re hiring for, with the question, the rubric (what 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 looks like), and any prompts to dig deeper.
• Behavioural questions. Past behaviour predicts future behaviour. Specific situations they’ve handled.
• Culture fit. How they think about the things you’ve listed as cultural values.
• Their questions for you. Reminder to leave time.

Add or remove blocks. Drag to reorder. Each block has a rich text editor for the question and rubric.

Use the guide in an interview

When you open the candidate’s interview from their record:

1. The guide shows in the left pane.
2. Notes and scoring on the right.
3. Type your notes as you go. Score each capability against the rubric.
4. Submit at the end.

The platform compiles your scores and notes into the candidate’s overall pipeline view.

Multiple interviewers

If the role has multiple interview rounds, each round gets its own guide. Common pattern:

• Round 1: phone screen, focused on background and motivation.
• Round 2: structured technical or capability interview using the full guide.
• Round 3: panel interview using a culture fit subset.

Calibration

After interviewing several candidates, scores from each interviewer appear side by side on the candidate detail page. Useful for calibration sessions where the panel debates whether a 3 from one interviewer is the same as a 4 from another.

Save as template

Once you’ve built a guide for a role, save it as an interview template so the next time you hire for the same role, you don’t start from scratch. Save as template is at the top right of the guide.