Create a scorecard and interview guide

💡 Why should I learn this? Using interview guides improves the quality and fairness of your hiring decisions. Interview guides in Hireguide are also based on skills that are most important for your role so you can take a skills-first approach to hiring. 

Learn by watching this video or reading the instructions below.

Define skills to create a scorecard

Interview guides are built at the round level. Start by selecting the desired position from your main positions page, and select the round you will build a guide for (e.g., screening interview, skills interview, etc.). In the desired round: 

• Click the watermelon-colored Add Interview Questions button
• Choose which skills you would like to assess in the interview round. The skills you select here will become your interview scorecard which you will use for evaluating your candidates. 
• Click Next to access the questions page

Add questions to an interview guide

The panel on the right side of the page titled ‘My Questions’ is your interview guide. You can add questions to your interview guide in 3 different ways: 

1. Add suggested questions

• To add a single suggested question, click the watermelon-coloured plus (+) icon on the desired question card
• To add all suggested questions, click the Add All Recommended (#) button located above all the suggested questions in the top right

2. Add questions from a template

Select a template from the templates carousel, or click View All to access your template library.

• Add a single question from a template by clicking the watermelon-coloured plus (+)  icon on the desired question in the template preview
• Add a full template by clicking the Add All Recommended (#) button located above the list of questions in the template preview

3. Create my own question

You can create your own questions in Hireguide, either by writing from scratch, copying your existing company questions into the question fields, or using Hireguide’s auto-generated content.

• Start by clicking the + Create my own question button at the top of the interview guide panel
• To write content from scratch or copy your existing company content, complete all question fields and click Save
• To use Hireguide’s auto-generated content, select a skill from the drop-down menu or add a new one, and click Auto-generate on the top right corner of the question modal. Then review the content and tailor it to your role, and click Save

Once you’ve filled your interview guide with all the questions you want to ask, simply click Save at the bottom of your guide. This will bring you back to the position page, and your guide will be saved to that round.