New · Interviewer Kit

Stop asking every candidate the same five questions.

When you unlock someone, describe.me writes the interview for that person on that role — weighted towards the skills we could not verify. Then it splits the questions across your panel and gives each interviewer a scorecard to fill in.

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Most interviews are improvised

The same
questions, every time

A generic list asks a career-changer and a fifteen-year specialist to answer identically. You learn what they have in common, not what sets them apart.

Three interviewers,
one interview

Without a plan, everyone opens with the same warm-up and covers the same ground. You spend three hours of company time triple-checking one thing.

Decisions made
on impressions

Without a shared scorecard the debrief becomes whoever argues hardest. Good candidates lose to confident ones, and you cannot explain the decision afterwards.

Why ours are different

We already know where the evidence is thin.

Every other question generator starts from the role title. Ours starts from the matching work we have already done on this specific person: for each thing the role needs, we know whether their work history actually backs it up.

Evidenced
Their history backs this up. Ask them to go deeper, not to prove it exists.
Listed, unverified
Claimed, but nothing corroborates it. The highest-value question in the room — ask for a worked example.
Not found
The role needs it and we found nothing. Probe for transferable experience and how fast they close gaps.
The brief

Walk in knowing what this interview has to settle

Before the questions, a short brief on who you are about to meet and what is genuinely unresolved — written from their history against your role, not from their CV summary.

  • The two or three things this hour actually has to establish
  • Each one tied to the evidence that prompted it — a skill, a requirement, a retention signal
  • Strengths flagged too, so you spend the time confirming depth rather than rediscovering the CV
Interviewer Kit brief showing what the interview has to establish for a candidate, with each focus area tied to the evidence behind it
The questions

Written for this person, not for the job title

Ten to fourteen questions, each one traceable to something real. Open any of them to see why it is being asked, what a strong answer actually contains, and where to push if the first answer stays abstract.

  • Weighted towards essential skills we could not corroborate
  • “What a good answer contains” — observable qualities, never a script to read out
  • Follow-ups ready for when someone answers in generalities
  • Every question tagged with who on the panel is asking it
Interview questions written for a specific candidate, each tagged with the skill it probes and the panel member asking it, expanded to show what a good answer contains
Panel & scoring

Everyone knows their part, and scores the same way

The questions are split across your panel so nobody doubles up, and every interviewer gets a weighted scorecard with proper descriptions of what a 1, a 3 and a 5 look like. The debrief becomes a comparison, not a debate.

  • Each interviewer gets their own link by email — no account, no login
  • Or print a form for anyone who would rather write on paper
  • Only got one interviewer? Set the panel size and the questions redistribute — nothing is dropped
  • Scores combine into one weighted view across the whole panel
Weighted interview scorecard with anchored one to five ratings, evidence notes and an overall recommendation, filled in by a panel member

Four steps, about a minute

Step 1

Unlock someone

Interviewer Kits appear for any candidate your company has unlocked, on any role they match.

Step 2

Generate the kit

One tap. The brief, questions, panel split and scorecard are built from the role and that candidate’s history.

Step 3

Name your panel

Say who is doing each interview. They get their own questions by email, or a printed form — your choice.

Step 4

Compare, then decide

Everyone scores against the same criteria. You get one weighted view of the panel instead of three opinions.

FAQs

How are the questions chosen?

Every question is grounded in something concrete: a skill the role requires, a requirement in your role description, something in the candidate’s actual work history, or a retention signal. They weight towards essential skills the candidate has listed but that we could not corroborate — that is where an interview adds the most.

Do my interviewers need a describe.me account?

No. Each panel member gets their own link by email with their questions and their scorecard. No signup, no login. Anyone who would rather write on paper can be handed a printed form instead.

What if we cannot field three interviewers?

The panel is a recommendation, not a requirement. Choose one, two or three and the questions are shared out across whoever you actually have — every question still gets asked, just by fewer people.

Can I change the questions?

You can regenerate the whole kit as often as you like, and rename the panel roles to match your team. Scores already submitted against criteria that survive a regeneration are kept.

Does an unverified skill mean the candidate is lying?

No, and the kit never says so. It means we could not corroborate that skill from their work history — plenty of strong people keep thin profiles. It is a prompt to ask for a worked example, not a judgement on the person.

What does it cost?

Nothing extra. The Interviewer Kit is included once you have unlocked a candidate’s contact details. See our pricing — you pay per contact, and your first three are free.

The complete hiring workflow

Write the role · Match the people · Back the ones who’ll stay · Get them in the room · Know what to ask

Your next interview could be the good one

Start with a free, anonymised shortlist for your role. Unlock anyone you want to meet — the Interviewer Kit comes with them.

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