What do I need to use Hiring Rubric?

Role title and level; Team or function; Top 3–5 things this person needs to do well; Interview format; Any known gaps or risks to probe for (optional); Company values or competencies (optional).

Is Hiring Rubric free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Hiring Rubric

Q: How do I know the Hiring Rubric output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Scoring descriptions are observable (behaviours, not adjectives); 4 vs 2 distinction is clear and specific; Questions have follow-up probes; Red flags are specific to this role and level.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-06-08 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-people

Generate a structured interview scorecard and interview guide for any role. Use when asked to create a hiring rubric, interview scorecard, structured interview guide, or assessment criteria for a job. Produces a scorecard with competencies, behavioural questions, and scoring guidance.

📚 Based on Structured hiring — Laszlo Bock, Work Rules!

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

🗣 Say this to your agent

“Create a hiring rubric for a [role]”“Build an interview scorecard for [job title]”“Give me structured interview questions for a [level] [role]”“We're hiring a [role] — help me build an assessment framework”

What to give it

▸Role title and level — e.g. Senior Product Manager, Junior Data Analyst

▸Team or function — e.g. Growth, Platform, Customer Success

▸Top 3–5 things this person needs to do well — the actual job requirements, not just the JD

▸Interview format — number of rounds, length of each

▸Any known gaps or risks to probe for (optional) — optional

▸Company values or competencies (optional) — optional — if provided, include as a competency section

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Scoring descriptions are observable (behaviours, not adjectives)

✓4 vs 2 distinction is clear and specific

✓Questions have follow-up probes

✓Red flags are specific to this role and level

✓Panel guide avoids competency overlap between rounds

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not include competencies that overlap significantly — each dimension must assess a distinct quality

Do not write behavioural questions that can be answered with a yes/no — use "Tell me about a time..." format

Do not set a scoring bar without calibration guidance — "above bar" means nothing without concrete examples at each level

Do not create a rubric with more than 6 competencies — panel interviews cannot reliably assess more

Do not omit a "must-have vs. nice-to-have" distinction in the requirements — all criteria cannot carry equal weight

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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