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Engineering Hiring Checklist
The questions that must be answered before a requisition is released. Built to stop the most common cause of a failed engineering search: a role specified in job-title language rather than in systems, phase and documents.
Inside the document
What it contains
Written for: Hiring managers, engineering leads and talent partners releasing a new requisition.
Contents
- Scope decomposition worksheet: systems, project phase, documents owned, standards applied
- Technical bar definition with must-have versus trainable separation
- Compliance and site-readiness checks: classification, induction, safety training, travel eligibility
- Budget sanity check across pay rate, bill rate and burden
- Interview panel readiness and decision-rights check
- Release gate: eleven conditions to satisfy before sourcing begins
How to use it
- Run it in the intake meeting rather than after the first shortlist misses.
- Use the release gate as a phase gate: no sourcing until every item is answered.
- Keep the completed sheet as the reference document for shortlist debriefs.
No email required. If you want it walked through with your team, ask a recruiter.
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An intake session produces the filled-in version for a live requisition: decomposed scope, realistic timeline and a technical bar your panel agrees on.