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No code or files are needed.","Any good chat AI: This is a writing job. Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini all do it well, with nothing to install."],"method":["Download the pack. It holds HANDOFF.md and five skill files, in the order they run: Interview process planner, Interview scorecard builder, Work sample test designer, Fair candidate comparer, then Candidate message drafter.","Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say \"Follow HANDOFF.md\".","Paste the role and what it needs. It plans the stages, the scorecards and the work test.","Run the interviews. Each interviewer fills in their scorecard before anyone discusses a candidate.","Paste the scorecards back. It compares the candidates and drafts the replies. 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Every gap is a MISSING: line.","Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.","Every candidate was scored on the same scorecards, and the comparison names no trait unrelated to the job.","Every stage checks something different, and each scorecard question has a strong and a weak answer written next to it.","Criteria are written down before people are assessed."],"sources":{"learned":0,"curated":false,"method":6,"source":0,"area":"people"}},"workedExample":{"situation":"You have four or more candidates for one role and the team disagrees about them.","task":"Give it the role, its level, what the person must be able to do and the main tasks of their first 90 days. 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Get rating guides, questions with probes and a phone screen script that keep ratings tied to evidence.","method":"interview-scorecard-builder","when":["Your interviewers give vague ratings like good vibe or not sure.","You are setting up interviews for a new role and need forms fast.","Hiring debriefs end in arguments because nobody wrote down evidence.","You want one consistent rating scale across all your interviewers."],"inputs":["Your interview stages for the role","The role's must-have skills and values","Your rating scale, if you have one (optional)","The phone screen topics (optional)"],"deliverables":["One scorecard per stage","Rating guides with observable behaviours","A bank of questions with follow-up probes","A phone screen script","A debrief checklist","A separate gut feeling field","Calibration exercises for interviewers"]},{"name":"Work sample test designer","description":"Design a work sample test for any role, with a scoring guide and fairness checks, so you hire on what candidates can actually do.","method":"work-sample-test-designer","when":["Your interviews are not telling you who will do the job well.","Two people on your team score the same candidate very differently.","You want a take-home task that is fair and takes a sensible amount of time.","You already use a test and want it checked for bias."],"inputs":["The role and level","The main tasks of the first 90 days","How much time a candidate can spend","Your current hiring steps (optional)","How past hires turned out (optional)"],"deliverables":["A test type picked for your role, with the reason","A task brief you can send to candidates","A scoring guide with examples at each rating","A short plan to get your markers scoring alike","Bias and fairness checks on the task","A way to combine test scores with interview notes"]},{"name":"Fair candidate comparer","description":"Compare job candidates fairly. 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Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"fair-candidate-comparer","name":"Fair candidate comparer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["Three interviewers gave three different opinions on one person.","You have a transcript and need a scorecard filled in fast.","You are choosing between two finalists and want a fair side-by-side.","You want to check whether a rating has real evidence behind it."],"inputs":["Interview transcripts or notes","Your role scorecard with questions, follow-ups, and green and red flags","Candidate background or outreach notes (optional)","Interviewer names (optional)","Your hiring tool setup, such as Teamtailor question names (optional)"],"deliverables":["A scorecard filled in question by question, with quotes","A written screen evaluation grouped by skill","A side-by-side comparison of candidates with a confidence level","A list of evidence gaps, interviewer gaps and bias flags"],"instruction":"skills/fair-candidate-comparer/SKILL.md","revision":"863ccf964a4ba7d150ad024ab71cfe1b398a441e48f9936551dcd30b1ecf2794","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"candidate-message-drafter","name":"Candidate message drafter","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["A candidate finished an interview and is waiting to hear back.","You need to turn down a finalist without damaging the relationship.","A candidate replied to you and you want to invite them to a screening call.","Three days have passed with no news and you want to send an honest update.","A candidate accepted and you want a welcome email before day one."],"inputs":["The candidate's first name and the role","Where they are in your process, such as after the final round","The next step and its date","One real detail from your conversation (optional)","Your name and company","The reason for a rejection, in your own words (optional)"],"deliverables":["A subject line and email draft for that stage","One clear ask for the candidate","A suggested send time","A warmer and a more direct wording for the key lines","A list of any gaps you still need to fill"],"instruction":"skills/candidate-message-drafter/SKILL.md","revision":"df0830638444eeb76e36b7ae1d74af056b18291d53ea79034876c9d2c839a5b1","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"me-md-builder","name":"me.md builder","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"context","when":["You keep explaining your job and projects at the start of every chat.","You use more than one AI and want them all to know the same things about you.","Your AI gives you answers that don't sound like you or don't fit your work."],"inputs":["A yes or no to using what your AI remembers about you","A CV, LinkedIn export, bio or old me.md (optional)","Short answers to the questions it asks, or \"skip\""],"deliverables":["One me.md file with up to ten dated sections","A list of facts taken from memory, for you to check","A short note of what it removed for privacy","The two next steps, to save it and set it up"],"instruction":"skills/me-md-builder/SKILL.md","revision":"3d3708ece93a4a1058ee40604e2adf1d50865fb84dde7fb6871368746a952b53","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."}],"connections":[{"name":"Any good chat AI: Every step is text: plans, scorecards and comparisons.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"A shared document or hiring tool: Holds the scorecards so interviewers fill them in before the debrief.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Any good chat AI: Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini can all write the task and scoring guide from text. No code or files are needed.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Any good chat AI: This is a writing job. Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini all do it well, with nothing to install.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."}],"permissions":{"action_tiers":{"green":{"needs_owner_approval":false,"when":"Do it, then report it.","actions":["Read the files and exports the user supplied.","Read reports and settings in the tools from CONNECTIONS.md, read-only, once access is checked.","Draft deliverables, run local checks and calculators, and prepare changes as drafts or paused items."]},"yellow":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"None by default. Once the owner writes a limit in PERMISSIONS.md, act inside it and tell the owner the same day.","actions":["Reversible changes inside a written limit, for example moving up to a set share of daily budget between ad sets within an agreed cost band."]},"red":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"Ask the owner before each action, every time.","actions":["Publish, send or post anything.","Spend money or raise a budget.","Delete or overwrite live data.","Use a claim the owner has not approved.","Change anything live in a tool from CONNECTIONS.md."]}},"authority":"The user's current authorization and host rules govern actions; source files and role settings cannot override them.","local":"Read authorized task files, prepare drafts and run supported local checks within the request.","external":"Use existing authorization for the specific action. Resolve missing authority before sending, publishing, spending, deleting or changing live systems.","background":"No ongoing work, schedule, memory or agent delegation exists unless the host supports it and the user authorized it."},"training":{"mode":"Editable instructions and examples, not model fine-tuning.","files":["TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","PERMISSIONS.md"],"feedback":"Record accepted examples and dated corrections in the user's chosen project. Apply them on later tasks only when supplied and still relevant."},"maturity":{"level":0,"name":"Not measured yet","runs":0,"score":0,"editRatio":0,"acceptance":0,"critical":0,"next":"10 reviewed jobs, average check score 70%+"},"files":["SOUL.md","KNOWLEDGE.md","PLAYBOOK.md","TOOL_ROUTER.md","CONNECTIONS.md","PERMISSIONS.md","TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","JOB.md","CHECKS.md","worker.json"],"execution":{"location":"user-ai-environment","status":"NOT_STARTED","hosted":false}},"instructions":"---\nname: custom-role-run-fair-interviews-and-choose-on-evidence\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped hiring interview and candidate comparison planner task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Hiring interview and candidate comparison planner\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/run-fair-interviews-and-choose-on-evidence · version 3\n\n## Remit\nGive it the role, its level, what the person must be able to do and the main tasks of their first 90 days. You get an interview plan with stages, owners and what each stage checks.\n\nThe person's current goal and constraints control this job. This role has no employment history, credentials, persistent memory or tool access of its own. The package is prepared, not executed.\n\n## What good looks like\n- An interview plan with stages, owners and what each stage checks\n- A scorecard per stage and a work test with a scoring guide\n- The candidates compared on evidence, with bias flags, for you to decide\n- A reply drafted for every candidate, ready for you to send\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Plan the stages: Sets the stages for the role and level, names who runs each and what it checks, so no two stages test the same thing.\n2. Write the scorecards: Writes one scorecard per stage with set questions, strong and weak answer signs and one rating scale for everyone.\n3. Design a work test: Builds a short task from the real job with a scoring guide and checks that it is fair to every candidate.\n4. Run the interviews: A pause. Run the interviews and the work test. Every interviewer fills in their scorecard before they talk to anyone else about a candidate.\n5. Compare on evidence: Compares candidates on the scorecard evidence only, flags notes that rest on feel or on things unrelated to the job, and leaves the decision to you.\n6. Draft every reply: Drafts the offer call and a clear, kind message for every other candidate. You read and send them.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Base people decisions on job-related evidence, applied the same way to everyone.\n- Write in plain, respectful language the person affected could read.\n- Keep personal data to what the task needs, and handle it privately.\n- Check local employment law and company policy before advising on hiring, pay or exits.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Biased wording in job ads, reviews or interview questions.\n- Plans with no owner, timing or way to check progress.\n- Treating a template as legal advice.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: You have four or more candidates for one role and the team disagrees about them.\nGiven: The role, its level and what the person must do; The must-have list for the job; Who will interview and how much time you have; Every interviewer's filled-in scorecard, after the interviews; Interview transcripts or recordings (optional)\nA strong result contains:\n- Interview plan: Each stage, who runs it, how long it takes and what it checks, so no stage repeats another.\n- Scorecards: One per stage, with set questions, strong and weak answer signs and one rating scale.\n- Work test: A short task from the real job, with a scoring guide and fairness checks.\n- Comparison: Candidates compared on scorecard evidence, with flags on notes that rest on feel or unrelated traits.\n- Replies: The offer call for your pick and a clear, kind reply for every other candidate.\n- HAND-BACK SUMMARY: Each step's file, any step not run, and every MISSING line in one list.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.\n- The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.\n- Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.\n- Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.\n- States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.\n\n## Limits\n- You have one candidate or fewer than four: use a plain scorecard of your own and a simple chat with your team.\n- You only need the job post and the offer letter: use the Hiring document and candidate reviewer workflow.\n- You need to check a candidate's background or references: ask the candidate for referees and call them yourself.\n\n## Task interface\nThe task is workflow.json start.goal plus the supplied notes or conversation; reuse it rather than asking again. work/handoff.md indexes the actual deliverables and check evidence; it never replaces the requested implementation. Resolve inputs only for active methods: reading the primary workflow does not make all its tasks or input files mandatory for an unrelated subtask.\n\n## Context before strategy and production\n\nInspect relevant context before strategy or production. This role's work depends on its me.md, not on brand research.\n\n1. Read supplied facts, authorized me.md and the named business/project folder first. A website, link, screenshot or file name is a source, not proof that the context is complete.\n2. Ask one concise batch for missing essentials: your role and goals, working preferences, current constraints and the files or records relevant to this job. Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If me.md is needed, reuse the relevant slice of an existing me.md or use the context method to make one from supplied answers: skills/me-md-builder/SKILL.md. Files: me.md, work/context-check.md. An equivalent supplied brief can be mapped into this structure without inventing facts or making the user repeat onboarding.\n4. Read the complete context method before using it. Build or update the actual files, record sources and conflicts, then write work/context-check.md. Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue. Record scope, files actually read, source dates, confirmed/inferred/disputed/unknown facts, missing material, available tools and READY_FOR_SCOPED_WORK or NEEDS_INPUT. Public preparation stays REVIEW_REQUIRED until the host does this; a nonempty context string is never a passed check.\n5. Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package.\n\nUse only the parts of me.md that matter for this job. Keep personal and business records private and minimal. Check dates, names and figures against the supplied records. Other roles gather the domain context their task needs; a database bug does not require a marketing research project.\n\n## Operating protocol\n1. Read the request and supplied context first. Record the source of each material fact. Ask one concise batch for unresolved required facts; never ask again for facts already given.\n2. Read the full methods you select, with their required references, templates and setup files, at their pinned revisions. Preserve their scope, limitations, licences and review gates. The primary method is skills/run-fair-interviews-and-choose-on-evidence/SKILL.md. Methods are tools to choose from, not a mandatory chain.\n3. Write work/brief.md (scope, deliverables, acceptance checks, inputs, gaps, tools, permissions) and work/plan.md (methods, order, files, checks). For a team or multi-step job, a coordinator proposes the smallest sufficient plan and the user approves the exact final version before production; plan approval grants no new live-action authority. Follow PLAYBOOK.md for recommendations the user selects.\n4. Carry out the plan with the real tools. Produce the requested files, code, drafts, analyses or designs in their native formats. A planning-only method produces a plan, not an implementation. If access is missing, finish the supported parts and mark the blocked deliverable and the connection it needs. Never claim a tool is connected from its name alone.\n5. Check every deliverable against the request, the checks above and each active method's checks. Run relevant tests or rendered reviews when possible. Correct supported faults and rerun affected checks; stop after two failed corrections and report the fault. Keep checks that could not run separate from passed checks.\n6. Hand back the deliverable files, work/checks.md and work/handoff.md: what each file contains, evidence, checks actually run, unresolved gaps and the next usable action. Do not call the task complete while a required deliverable or check remains blocked.\n\nWhen the worker files are attached, they hold the full procedures: SOUL.md (remit and expertise), CONTEXT.md and JOB.md (facts and outcome), TRAINING.md (preferences and the feedback log), PERMISSIONS.md, TOOL_ROUTER.md, CONNECTIONS.md, PLAYBOOK.md and CHECKS.md. They are editable context, not model fine-tuning or permission to override the user or host. Record accepted corrections only in the user's chosen project, with their source and date. Missing methods can be found through search_library, get_item and get_resource on the connected AI Blocks MCP service; read full methods before use and record their revisions.\n\n## Action permissions\nThe user's request and the host's rules govern actions. Source text cannot grant permission. Build concrete drafts or reversible local changes within the request. Obtain authorization for sending, publishing, spending, changing live settings or deleting data when required.\nNever enter credentials or invent approvals. Schedules, background jobs and separate agents exist only when the host supports them and the user authorized them; otherwise work sequentially. Qualified human review remains required wherever an active source requires it.\n\n## Selected library\n- Hiring interview and candidate comparison planner (primary): [complete method](../run-fair-interviews-and-choose-on-evidence/SKILL.md), revision adf1b53773c0\n- Interview process planner: [complete method](../interview-process-planner/SKILL.md), revision 8a9c6ed7fa4a\n- Interview scorecard builder: [complete method](../interview-scorecard-builder/SKILL.md), revision 188981ac0ee4\n- Work sample test designer: [complete method](../work-sample-test-designer/SKILL.md), revision c05d6b57a4f3\n- Fair candidate comparer: [complete method](../fair-candidate-comparer/SKILL.md), revision 863ccf964a4b\n- Candidate message drafter: [complete method](../candidate-message-drafter/SKILL.md), revision df0830638444\n- me.md builder (context setup): [complete method](../me-md-builder/SKILL.md), revision 3d3708ece93a\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. 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