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Interview kits

Conduct structured interviews, assessing skills and traits seamlessly with Interview kits

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Written by Arvid
Updated over a week ago

When hiring new talent, you will most likely meet your candidates for one or several interviews. By creating Interview kits, the hiring team will be aligned regarding the skills and traits you're looking for in your new colleague, and how to conduct the interview to evaluate them.

This helps you give all candidates a fair recruitment process and keep communication with your team smooth. The better the communication and alignment internally, the better the candidate experience. Win-win!

A Company Admin user needs to activate this feature in the Add-on feature center to get started

Set up an interview kit

Once this feature is activated, navigate to Settings → Recruitment → Interview kits to get started. Click the pink + button on the right-hand side to create new kits or duplicate existing ones. From there, you can customize each kit to fit your specific needs.

This can also be set up directly in the job editing mode under the Evaluation step after the Skills and traits section.


Interview kit details

Start by giving your kit a clear name and writing the instructions you want team members to follow. Consider creating different kits for different roles or stages of the process, and use a consistent naming convention to keep them structured.

Group your interview kits using tags for even better organization.

Skills and traits

Next, you can add relevant skills and personality traits that are important for the role and that you want to evaluate with this interview kit. Skills will be marked in blue, and traits in yellow.

You can select existing skills and traits from the drop-down menu, or create new ones by clicking + Add a skill or trait.

Questions

In this section, you define the questions you want to ask candidates. You can either add questions linked to the selected skills and traits (1) or include general interview questions, such as the candidate’s availability to start (2).

Add an interview kit to a job process

Interview kits can be added to any job process in the editing mode. Go to the step Evaluation and click Add next to the kit/s you want to make to use for this job process.

Any interview kit that matches one or more of the skills and traits added to the job's Scorecard will be highlighted as Suggested.

Once added, you'll see the option to assign the interview kit to a certain stage in the process. This is especially useful if you're planning on using multiple kits in the same job. The kit will then be pre-selected when scheduling an interview with the candidate at the selected stage.

Submit interview kit feedback on a candidate

Candidates added to a job with interview kits will find them available in the Evaluation tab on their candidate card. By clicking Leave feedback you open up the kit so it can be filled out during the interview with the candidate.

The instructions added to the interview kit will appear first, followed by the selected skills and traits, and then the added questions.

Autosave for drafts

If you're not ready to publish your interview feedback, you can save it as a draft only you can see. This allows you to continue working on that interview feedback later, from any computer. Auto-save will be triggered whenever you change or add an answer or a score in a draft.

In the list of Interview kits, you will see a small badge that indicates that the interview feedback is saved as a draft. This is also where you can edit your feedback.

Once you are ready to make your feedback visible to your colleagues, click the Save button.

All added feedback, from your team or yourself, will be displayed on the left-hand side of the candidate card, under Interview feedback.

Job match score

If you’ve evaluated the skills and traits defined in the Job scorecard, a Job match score will appear as a pink bar on the job application. This percentage indicates how well the candidate fits the position, based on both the evaluated skills and traits and their assigned weights.

The Job match score is visible on both the candidate card and in the stages overview in the job process.


The breakdown of the Job match score can be found in the Job match breakdown section on the left-hand side of the candidate card. Here, you can view your own and your colleagues evaluations, along with the weighted skills and traits that make up the score.

Job match score calculation
The job match score is calculated by summing the average score (total column) for each skill or trait, multiplied by its weight (%).

  • A score of 5 counts as a 100% match, 4 as 75%, 3 as 50%, and so on.

  • Only the average score (total column) is used. For example, if one person gives a skill a 5 and two others don’t score it, it’s the same as all three giving it a 5—the average is still 5.

  • If a skill has no scores at all, we treat it as the lowest possible score (1), since we have no information to confirm the candidate’s ability.

Example:
If a job has Project Management (80% weight) and Leadership (20% weight), and the candidate’s average scores are 4 (75%) and 1 (0%), the calculation is:

0.75 × 0.8 + 0 × 0.2 = 0.65 → 65% match

FAQ

Why can’t I see my colleague's feedback?

When you schedule a meeting, you will see the option to connect an interview kit to the meeting and decide who should leave feedback once the interview is completed. Like so:

If you’ve been asked to leave feedback after joining an interview with a candidate, you have to submit your own feedback before you can see your other team members feedback. This is to help reduce biased recruitment!

You can easily do so by clicking the submit your own feedback link found in the message below:

What happens when an interview kit is archived in Settings?

If an interview kit is archived via settings, any existing answers for this interview kit will be intact and shown as before on the candidate card.

What happens when an interview kit is removed from a job?

The interview kit feedback from the candidate profiles where it has been filled in. Note that the feedback is just hidden, and not removed. It comes back if you add the kit back to the job.

What happens when a question is removed from an interview kit?

We hide any answers that belonged to the removed question from existing feedback. Note that the feedback is just hidden, and not removed. It comes back if you add the question back to the interview kit.

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