Candidate Alignment Guide

Panel alignment before the search starts — not during the debrief. This template gives hiring managers the infrastructure to align interviewers on criteria, competencies, and scoring before the first candidate is contacted. Three sheets: Ideal Candidate Profile with Must Have vs. Explicit Non-Goal categories; Panel Assignments with competency-per-interviewer assignments and bias alerts; Candidate Evaluations with evidence-based signal logging. Includes a narrative alignment document for the hiring panel. Built from Maze's stakeholder alignment methodology. For Engineering Managers, Directors of Product, or Senior PMs running IC to senior-level hiring loops.