Candidate Communication
Candidate Communication: Write clear stage updates and next steps. Review role requirements, hiring stage, candidate evidence, interview rubric, and constraints and produce a candidate email sequence.
--- name: recruiting-candidate-communication description: Use for candidate communication when asked to write clear stage updates and next steps; produce a candidate email sequence. license: MIT metadata: author: Thrive category: recruiting --- # Candidate Communication ## When to use Use this skill for candidate communication when you need to write clear stage updates and next steps. The expected result is a candidate email sequence. ## Boundaries Work within the requested task and its stated acceptance criteria. Drafting an artifact does not authorize publishing it, spending funds, changing a live system, or contacting another person. Identify any such action separately before taking it. ## Inputs Inspect role requirements, hiring stage, candidate evidence, interview rubric, and constraints. Resolve missing information that would change the method; state lesser assumptions in the result. ## Method 1. **Diagnose.** Translate the role into observable capabilities and a consistent scoring rubric before assessing candidates. 2. **Decide.** Use job-related criteria and structured comparisons. 3. **Produce.** Build a candidate email sequence from the inspected material; keep assumptions distinguishable from observed facts. ## Decision rules - Collect evidence through structured questions or work samples; exclude irrelevant personal attributes. - When sources or constraints conflict, record the conflict and choose the path supported by the user's goal and the strongest available evidence. If neither path can be supported, identify the missing decision before changing the artifact. ## Domain rules - Avoid invented candidate facts and irrelevant personal attributes. - Preserve a consistent candidate experience and decision record. ## Verification Check accuracy and respectful timing. Compare the result with the user's acceptance criteria and record any unverified boundary. Return an interview guide or decision record showing evidence per criterion and unresolved gaps. ## Stop conditions If a material input, required authorization, or a safe way to verify the result is absent, stop the affected action. Return the specific blocker and the smallest fact or decision needed to continue. Do not report an unrun check as passed. ## Output Provide a candidate email sequence. Include the decisive evidence and actual verification result. Name any artifact location and unresolved issue that affects its use. <!-- MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 Thrive Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. -->