Interview Template Hiring Kit, Candidate Scorecard, Applicant Tracker, Job Application Form, Offer Letter, Reference Check, Word Excel

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This interview template kit gives a small business one structured hiring process. Every interviewer rates the same criteria. Scores combine into one weighted rating, with a flag when interviewers disagree. A candidate tracker keeps every applicant in one place. You also get a job application form, interview guide, reference check form and offer letter. It works in Google Sheets and Docs, or Excel and Word.

WHAT'S INCLUDED
1. Hiring Scorecard + Candidate Tracker workbook (Excel + Google Sheets)
- Settings: up to 8 criteria with your own weights, must-haves and "what a 1 / 3 / 5 looks like".
- Candidates: up to 100, with stage, next step, owner, days in stage and follow-up flags.
- Scorecards: up to 300 interviewer scorecards. Each one becomes a weighted 1-5 score. Criteria left blank are left out and the rest re-weighted.
- Compare: every candidate's average, lowest and highest card, the gap between them, must-have misses, rank and a suggested next step (Advance / Discuss / Review, from your thresholds).
- "Discuss: interviewers disagree" when scores are far apart, so one great and one poor interview don't quietly average out.
- Pipeline: candidates by stage and by source, follow-ups due and days from application to hire.
- Question Bank: 32 behavioral questions tied to the criteria, each with what a good answer shows and a follow-up.
- Ask This, Not That: legal alternatives for 13 risky interview questions, with EEOC links.
2. Job application form (Word + Google Docs). It leaves out the topics the EEOC warns about (age, birth date, marital status, citizenship, health and so on). It includes I-9 work-authorization wording, an accommodation question, an EEO statement and a signature block.
3. Interview guide + printable scorecard (Word + Google Docs). The same criteria and weights as the workbook, a 1-5 rating scale and an overall-call checkbox.
4. Reference check form (Word + Google Docs).
5. Offer letter template (Word + Google Docs): pay, schedule, exempt / non-exempt status, start date, at-will wording and contingencies.
6. Start Here PDF with your 5 Google copy links.

TESTED
The workbook was checked against an independent calculation in 22 automated tests, including full capacity (100 candidates, 300 scorecards), and compared cell by cell in Google Sheets with 0 differences. The documents were checked for every required element and the Google Docs versions compared line by line with the Word files.

HOW TO GET IT
1. After you buy, go to your Etsy account > Purchases and download the zip. Etsy also emails you a link.
2. Open Hiring-Kit-START-HERE.pdf. Click each link and choose "Make a copy" for Google, or open the .xlsx and .docx files in Excel and Word.
3. Set your criteria and weights, fill in the yellow [PLACEHOLDERS] in the documents, clear the sample data and start.

GOOD TO KNOW, PLEASE READ
- Templates, not legal advice. They follow U.S. federal guidance (EEOC, Department of Labor, USCIS), with sources in the files. State and city laws can add rules (for example ban-the-box, salary-history bans and pay transparency), so check yours. Have a lawyer review your offer letter.
- One job opening per workbook. Make a fresh copy for each role.
- The suggested next step is a prompt for your hiring discussion, not a decision.
- No background-check forms. Background checks need their own separate disclosure, which the documents explain.
- U.S.-focused. Compatible with Google Sheets / Docs (free Google account) and Excel / Word 2010 or newer, on Windows or Mac. Not designed for Apple Numbers or Pages.
- This is a digital download. Nothing physical will be shipped. Because it's a digital file, returns aren't accepted. If something isn't working, send me a message and I'll help.
- For your own business use. Please don't resell or share the files or links.

HOW THIS WAS MADE
I designed this kit with help from AI tools, which assisted with the formulas, layout and first drafts of the documents. I chose the features and criteria, reviewed the documents against the EEOC, DOL and USCIS guidance cited in them, and tested every workbook calculation against an independent check (22 tests) before listing.