Most interview processes fall apart because no one wrote them down. You interview five candidates, each gets slightly different questions, and at decision time you are comparing vibes.
An interview kit fixes that. It is not complicated. Five components, one page each, reused for every role.
What goes inside the interview kit
Start with a role scorecard. Write down the outcomes you actually need in the first 12 months. Not responsibilities. Outcomes. Something like “ship three new product lines,” or “reduce support tickets by 30%.” If you cannot name three outcomes, you are not ready to hire.
Next, a competency rubric. Pick four or five competencies that actually predict success in this role. For each one, write what a 1, 3, and 5 looks like. Two sentences each.
Then, a standard question bank. Six to eight questions mapped to your competencies. Every candidate gets the same core set. You can improvise follow ups, but the spine stays consistent.
A scoring guide comes next. After each interview, every interviewer scores the rubric independently before debrief. No discussion until scores are in. This kills groupthink, which is the silent killer of hiring quality.
Finally, an intake brief. A one-page doc filled in by the hiring manager before sourcing starts. Role, must-haves, nice-to-haves, compensation band, deal-breakers, and the three outcomes from the scorecard. Every interviewer reads it before their session.
A lightweight template you can build today
Open a doc. Give it five headings: Scorecard, Rubric, Questions, Scoring, Intake. Under each, no more than one page of content. That is your interview kit.
The whole thing takes two hours to build once, and ten minutes to adapt per role after that. You will never go back.
Make it boring, make it repeatable
Great hiring is boring hiring. The same questions, the same rubric, the same debrief ritual, every single time. Interesting hiring is how you end up with a team that looks like your last five gut calls.
Sieve pulls your role scorecard, generates the question bank from the CV, and captures scoring against your rubric in one place, so your interview kit actually gets used instead of living in a forgotten Notion doc. See how at sievecv.com.