candidate-packet

name	candidate-packet
description	Use when preparing a candidate for an interview loop or a hiring debrief — assembles a single packet that gives each interviewer their assignment and gives the debrief the evidence it needs to decide.

Candidate Packet

A playbook for turning everything known about a candidate into one document that makes the loop effective and the debrief decisive. The failure mode it prevents: interviewers walking in cold, duplicating questions, and a debrief that argues from impressions because no one gathered the evidence in one place.

Assemble before the loop

1. Open with the role's scorecard and the hiring bar, so every reader grades against the same target.
2. Summarize the candidate: background relevant to the must-haves, what the screen already confirmed, and their stated motivations and constraints (timing, comp, competing options).
3. Attach the interview kit's assignment table: which competency each interviewer owns, their questions, and their rubric. Make it impossible to walk in unsure what to assess.
4. Note what earlier stages already covered, so no one wastes a session re-asking the screen's questions.
5. Flag open questions the loop must answer — the specific doubts that will decide advance-or-decline.

Collect after each session

6. Require a scorecard grade per competency, submitted independently and before the debrief, with the evidence (what the candidate actually said or did) that supports the grade.
7. Keep said-vs-observed distinct: record what the interviewer saw, separately from what they concluded.
8. Chase missing grades immediately — an unsubmitted scorecard is a hole in the decision, and interview memory decays by the hour.

Prepare the debrief

9. Compile the independent grades into one view, competency by competency, before any discussion.
10. Highlight where the loop agrees and where it splits; a genuine split on a must-have is the decision, and it goes to the Head of Talent with the evidence, not a summary.

Quality bar

• Every interviewer's assignment is unambiguous before the loop.
• Every grade is backed by observed evidence, submitted independently.
• Open questions from the screen are explicitly answered or explicitly still open.
• The debrief view shows grades before opinions.

Output format

Candidate packet: scorecard and bar → candidate summary with motivations and constraints → interviewer assignment table → collected independent grades with evidence → debrief view (agreements, splits, open questions).