Hiring plan
Also called: hiring brief, intake doc
What sits on the page
A working hiring plan covers:
- Why the role exists : the gap it closes and the success criteria for year one.
- Must-haves vs. nice-to-haves : 3-5 of each, agreed not debated.
- Compensation range : a band, signed off by finance.
- Interview panel : who interviews each dimension.
- Stages : how many rounds, how long each takes.
- Start-date target : realistic, accounting for notice period .
- Sourcing channels : where to look, by priority.
One page. Written before the job posting . Signed off by the hiring manager and the head of the function.
Why the upfront cost is worth it
A hiring plan is 60-90 minutes of work that prevents three failure modes:
- Interviewers using different criteria, debate every debrief .
- Counter-offers because the compensation band wasn’t set in advance.
- A start-date miss because no one accounted for the candidate’s 3-month notice .
The plan is what you point at when the process tries to drift mid-search.
Where TalentGleam fits
Hiring plans attach to the role in TalentGleam, visible from the candidate-list view so every interviewer can re-read the criteria before a conversation. See the features page .
