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Setting up a cycle

Stage rules, the two rubrics, and the selection email settings.

Administrative Council only. /admin/recruitment creates cycles; /admin/recruitment/<cycle> configures one.

Creating a cycle

Two fields: a name between three and 120 characters, and a slug in lowercase with hyphens, between three and 60. The cycle starts in Draft.

Stage rules

SettingWhat it does
Group discussion required by defaultWhether new candidates need a GD.
Interview required by defaultWhether they need a PI.
Planned GD durationIn seconds, from one minute to four hours.
Planned PI durationSame range.
Allow bypassing the group discussionWhether Senior Council can skip a candidate straight to interview.

Durations are planned, not enforced. A session that runs over is not cut off; the number sets expectations and drives the timer display.

The two rubrics

One for group discussions, one for interviews. Each takes up to twelve criteria, and each criterion has:

  • a key: lowercase, starting with a letter, used internally;
  • a label: what evaluators see, up to sixty characters;
  • a maximum: the top of its scale, 1 to 100;
  • a weight: 0 to 10, how much it counts relative to the others.

Criteria with different maxima are still comparable, because each is normalised before weighting. See scoring and the rubric.

Tip

Fewer criteria score better. Twelve is the ceiling, not a target. Five or six well-chosen ones produce more consistent scoring across evaluators than a long list that everyone interprets differently.

Selection email settings

A WhatsApp group URL, included in the email so selected candidates land somewhere, and a note of up to a thousand characters added to the message.

Write the note before you need it. Sending selection emails is a moment when nobody wants to be composing copy.

Society roles

Fixed. Recruitment can only ever grant the plain member role. This is not configurable, by design: recruitment cannot hand out console access. See finalisation and the society.

Get it right before opening

Everything above can be changed later, but a rubric change mid-cycle means candidates evaluated against different criteria. Configure in Draft, review, then open.