Hiring Overview

What Hiring Does

Hiring runs a role from job posting to accepted offer in one place. You publish the role on a branded career portal and define the stages every candidate goes through. Your team screens, reviews, interviews, and makes the offer in the same pipeline.

Candidates apply, complete tasks, book interviews, and answer the offer from their own portal, opened by a magic link, with no account or password to create.

Who It’s For

Persona	Goal	Primary Pain
Hiring manager or CTO running hiring on top of their day job	Make a strong hire without hiring becoming a second job	Applications spread across inboxes; chasing teammates for feedback; candidates waiting for answers
Teammate reviewing or interviewing	Give a fair, independent assessment with little overhead	Unclear criteria; scheduling back-and-forth; opinions shaped by whoever spoke first
Candidate	Understand the process, do the work, and hear back	Another account to create; no idea where the application stands

Teammates see only what their Hiring access allows; a restricted posting is visible only to its hiring team and Hiring admins.

How It Works

1. Create the role: In Hiring > Job Postings, click New Job Posting, or let an AI assistant draft it. Start from a process template or build stages by hand.
2. Shape the pipeline: Order the stages from Application Form to Offer, assign reviewers and interviewers, and keep take-home instructions in the private stage brief.
3. Publish: The role appears on your career portal at startupkit.app/careers/your-subdomain, or on your own domain once you set up a custom domain. Share the link, embed the portal, or send the role to job boards.
4. Screen: New applications are held for screening by default and appear in the Inbox. Each candidate gets a confirmation email with a magic link to their portal.
5. Assess: Candidates complete questionnaires, work samples, code assignments, or video steps; reviewers vote blind. A clear result can advance the candidate automatically; a split round is flagged Needs Decision for a person to resolve.
6. Interview: Candidates book a slot from the interviewers’ availability. Each interviewer needs their own availability schedule; connecting their own Google Calendar hides busy times.
7. Offer and close: Send the offer with terms, an optional PDF letter, and an expiry date. The candidate accepts or declines in their portal. Then close the role and record the hire.

What’s Included

Hiring includes job postings with starter and custom process templates; 12 stage types, from application forms, questionnaires, work samples, and GitHub code assignments to team reviews, live interviews, reference checks, and offers; a branded career portal with embedding, five languages, Google Jobs markup, and job-board distribution; screening and blind reviews with weighted scoring; interview scheduling with Google Calendar, Google Meet, and optional Calendly; payout records for paid tasks; AI resume extraction and custom candidate data fields; a talent pool and bulk CV import; Slack notifications and optional per-application Slack channels; stall reminders for candidates and teammates; offer revisions; webhooks; and an in-app AI assistant plus MCP tools.

Quick Checklist

• Give each teammate the Hiring access they need (Team Roles)
• Brand the portal in Account Settings > Branding
• Create a job posting and review its stages
• Assign reviewers; code-assignment reviewers connect their own GitHub account in Kit
• Check that every interviewer has an availability schedule
• Publish, then submit a test application from a separate browser session

Next Steps

• Creating a Job Posting: fields, stages, and publishing
• Managing Your Pipeline: advancing, rejecting, and closing a role
• Reviews and Feedback: blind voting and split decisions
• Scheduling Overview: availability, calendars, and booking
• The Candidate Experience: what candidates see at each step