The finalist card is the deliverable. One page per candidate. Three finalists per role. Reading the card takes about three minutes per candidate.
What is on the card.
- The eight to twelve competency scores. Each one is a 0 to 100 number with the rubric weighting next to it.
- The evidence spans. Each score links to the place in the transcript where the answer landed. Click the score, open the transcript on the right context.
- The rank within the role. 1 of 3, 2 of 3, 3 of 3, with the gap on each adjacent rank.
- The override-history bar. Any prior overrides on this candidate, who logged them, when.
- The candidate-side profile: contact, salary expectation, location, deal-breakers cleared.
What to look at first.
The three highest-weighted competencies. The rubric weighting is set when the role is posted; the top three competencies are the ones that drive the overall rank the most. Open the evidence span on each of those three before reading anything else. If the evidence supports the score, the rank is calibrated. If the evidence feels thin, that is the override candidate.
Reading time per card is about three minutes if you start with the top three competencies. Reading from the top of the card is closer to seven.
What to do next: open the finalist card on a live role, read the top three competencies first, and only then decide whether to read the full transcript.