Use case: interview guides

Interview guides and STAR questions, ready for every candidate

For recruiters who want every candidate interviewed against the same criteria. In ReCo, a Session Guide holds the requirements and assessment criteria for a role, grouped in sections, and Guide Notes hold the set of questions assigned to them; your Session Notes stay separate, for what you hear from each candidate. You build the guide once per role and it loads for every candidate in the project, so every interview is prepared and repeatable. Suggest Questions adds questions built with the STAR method and tailored to the CV and the role, and the same requirements later structure the report.

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Session guideTranscriptResume (CV)Job description
Klarna - Senior Product Manager / Product Lead
Product Manager - Klarna
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
  • Product management in B2B SaaS or fintech environmentsyears of experience · key examples · tools and methods used
  • Knowledge of payments, onboarding, compliance or regulated product areas
  • Leading complex product initiatives across multiple teams
MANAGEMENT
  • Have you ever managed other team members?How many · Level of responsibility for others
  • Ability to handle difficult prioritization and performance conversations
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Guide Notes · Product Manager - Klarna
Use for questions, talking points, reminders, etc.
QUESTIONS
  • Walk me through a recent product you managed end-to-end in a B2B SaaS or fintech environment and the concrete outcomes you achieved.
  • Describe your experience with payments, onboarding or compliance products and how regulation influenced your product decisions.
  • Tell me about a complex product initiative you led across multiple teams and how you structured and drove it to delivery.
  • Give an example of a time you had to make a difficult prioritization decision and communicate it to stakeholders who disagreed.
  • Why are you considering a change now, and what are you looking for in your next role?

A Session Guide and Guide Notes in a demo session for a Product Manager role.

How it works

One guide per role, used in every interview

Prepare the structure once and reuse it, so every candidate is interviewed and assessed against the same requirements.

  1. 1

    Build the guide

    Add sections and requirements for the role, or start from a default guide: Interview, Intake Meeting or Reference Check.

  2. 2

    Assign questions in Guide Notes

    Attach a set of questions to each requirement, so the criteria and the questions that test them stay together and in view during the call.

  3. 3

    Tailor it to the candidate

    Use Suggest Questions to get STAR questions and follow-ups based on the CV and the role, and during the call from the live transcript.

Interview guide template

Interview guide template, with a filled STAR example

Copy the template for your next role. The filled example works through one criterion with STAR questions: situation and task, the candidate's own action and the result, with the evidence it produced and what is still unknown.

Template

Interview guide template

SESSION GUIDE Role and client: Goal of the interview: first screen / competency interview / final round Requirements and assessment criteria (3-5, agreed with the client): 1. 2. 3. GUIDE NOTES: QUESTIONS FOR EACH REQUIREMENT Opening question: "Walk me through your current role and what you own." Requirement: Situation and task (S, T): "Tell me about a time when..." Action (A): "What did you do yourself, and what did the team do?" Result (R): "What changed, and how did you measure it?" Evidence to look for: Closing: - Requirements without evidence yet: - Candidate questions: - Next step agreed:
Filled example

Product Lead: leading initiatives across teams

Criterion: leading complex product initiatives across multiple teams Situation and task (S, T): "Tell me about an initiative you led across several teams where priorities clashed." Answer: "We rebuilt business onboarding with product, engineering, design, risk and operations. Risk was worried about fraud exposure." Action (A): "What did you decide yourself, and how did you get risk on board?" Answer: "I made the trade-offs explicit early and agreed a staged rollout with risk, with weekly checkpoints." Result (R): "What changed, and how do you know it was your work?" Answer: "Onboarding completion went up about 12-15% and manual reviews dropped about 20%." Evidence: led cross-team delivery under regulatory constraints; result quantified; impact shared with the squads. Still unknown: formal authority over the teams; how the impact was separated from parallel work.
Why it matters

Same criteria, every candidate

Structured interviews are easier to compare and easier to explain to a client or hiring manager.

Apples to apples

Every candidate is asked about the same requirements, so differences in evidence are easy to see.

Prepared in minutes

Reuse a guide for the next candidate in the project instead of rebuilding your question list.

The report is already structured

The requirements you interview against become the sections of the report, so the write-up starts in the right shape.

Customer storyVoyagu logo
"ReCo has become the default tool I open for interviews."
Yuliia Moiko
Yuliia MoikoTalent Acquisition Team Lead, Voyagu
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~23 minSaved per interview
~6 hSaved per week
Questions recruiters ask

Interview guides in ReCo: FAQ

Session Guides, Guide Notes and suggested questions.

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