Job Application Manager
reactive-resume/reactive-resume
Runs the job-search pipeline. An agent skill from reactive-resume/reactive-resume.
Designs and runs hiring — role definition, sourcing, interview loop design, structured evaluation, and the decision itself.
Install Hiring And Interviewing
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill hiring-and-interviewing -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount hiring-and-interviewing --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/people/skills/hiring-and-interviewing .claude/skills/hiring-and-interviewing && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "hiring-and-interviewing" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/people/skills/hiring-and-interviewing into .claude/skills/hiring-and-interviewing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hiring-and-interviewing", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/people/skills/hiring-and-interviewingType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill hiring-and-interviewing -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount hiring-and-interviewing --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/people/skills/hiring-and-interviewing .agents/skills/hiring-and-interviewing && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "hiring-and-interviewing" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/people/skills/hiring-and-interviewing into .agents/skills/hiring-and-interviewing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hiring-and-interviewing", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill hiring-and-interviewing -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount hiring-and-interviewing --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/people/skills/hiring-and-interviewing .cursor/skills/hiring-and-interviewing && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "hiring-and-interviewing" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/people/skills/hiring-and-interviewing into .cursor/skills/hiring-and-interviewing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hiring-and-interviewing", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git --path plugins/people/skills/hiring-and-interviewing--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill hiring-and-interviewing -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount hiring-and-interviewing --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/people/skills/hiring-and-interviewing .gemini/skills/hiring-and-interviewing && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "hiring-and-interviewing" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/people/skills/hiring-and-interviewing into .gemini/skills/hiring-and-interviewing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hiring-and-interviewing", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount hiring-and-interviewingInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill hiring-and-interviewing -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/people/skills/hiring-and-interviewing .github/skills/hiring-and-interviewing && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "hiring-and-interviewing" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/people/skills/hiring-and-interviewing into .github/skills/hiring-and-interviewing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hiring-and-interviewing", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill hiring-and-interviewing -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount hiring-and-interviewing --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/people/skills/hiring-and-interviewing .opencode/skills/hiring-and-interviewing && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "hiring-and-interviewing" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/people/skills/hiring-and-interviewing into .opencode/skills/hiring-and-interviewing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hiring-and-interviewing", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
hiring-and-interviewing- GitHub stars
- 2k
- Token cost
- ~960 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 513 words
- Files
- 2 (incl. references)
- Skills in repo
- 178
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Designs and runs hiring — role definition, sourcing, interview loop design, structured evaluation, and the decision itself.
- Tasks that involve Recruiting and HR
- SKILL.md covers Define before sourcing, Design the loop, Evaluating and Deciding, plus 3 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- Tasks that involve Interview preparation
What it does
Hiring And Interviewing is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Designs and runs hiring — role definition, sourcing, interview loop design, structured evaluation, and the decision itself. Use this to open a role, write a job description or scorecard, design an interview process, prepare interview questions, calibrate a hiring decision, or diagnose why a hiring process produces poor outcomes.
Its SKILL.md is about 960 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/sources.md`).
It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Recruiting and HR and Interview preparation. The repository describes itself as: An agent organization structured as a company — 15+ departments, 125+ skills, each independently installable, citing the standards and regulators that settle the question. Runs… The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Tasks that involve Recruiting and HR
- Tasks that involve Interview preparation
Example prompts
- “Use the hiring-and-interviewing skill to design and runs hiring — role definition, sourcing, interview loop design, structured evaluation, and the…”
- “/hiring-and-interviewing”
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 98d1c17. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Hiring And Interviewing loads about 960 tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 89 tokens; SKILL.md has 513 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from cbrock84/headcount at commit 98d1c17, republished under its MIT licence (© cbrock84). 513 words, ~960 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/hiring-and-interviewing/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- hiring-and-interviewing
- description
- Designs and runs hiring — role definition, sourcing, interview loop design, structured evaluation, and the decision itself. Use this to open a role, write a job description or scorecard, design an interview process, prepare interview questions, calibrate a hiring decision, or diagnose why a hiring process produces poor outcomes.
Hiring and interviewing
Define before sourcing
Write, before posting anything:
- What this person will accomplish in their first year — outcomes, not responsibilities.
- The three or four competencies that actually predict those outcomes.
- What is genuinely required versus what is preferred. Long requirement lists are the most reliable way to shrink and homogenize a candidate pool, and most of the list is never used in the decision.
- The bar, agreed by everyone on the loop, before the first interview.
Undefined roles produce interview loops where each interviewer evaluates against a private definition, and the decision goes to whoever argues hardest.
Design the loop
Each interview assesses different competencies, stated in advance. Overlapping interviews produce four opinions on the same thing and none on the rest.
- Structured beats unstructured, consistently and by a wide margin. Same questions, same order, same rubric. Unstructured interviews mostly measure similarity to the interviewer.
- Work samples predict best. A realistic exercise close to the actual job beats any amount of discussion about it. Keep it time-boxed and pay for anything substantial.
- Behavioral questions about the past, with follow-ups for specifics: what was the situation, what did you do, what happened, what would you change. Hypotheticals measure articulacy.
- Fewer, better interviews. Long loops lose good candidates and add little signal after the fourth conversation.
Evaluating
Interviewers write their assessment against the rubric before any discussion. Group discussion first produces convergence on the first confident opinion rather than an aggregation of independent ones.
Debrief on evidence: what did they say or do that supports this rating? "Culture fit" without behavioral evidence is where bias enters, and it should be challenged every time it appears.
Deciding
A yes needs evidence on every required competency, not a strong overall impression. Where evidence is missing, get it — an extra conversation is cheap compared to a mis-hire.
Ambiguity means no. The cost of a bad hire is far larger and lasts far longer than the cost of a longer search, and it is borne by the team, not the hiring manager.
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Sources
references/sources.md in this skill lists the outside authorities that settle the questions
here — what each one is authoritative for, and what you may do with it. Check them before
answering on anything they cover, and cite what you used. Most are free to read and not free
to reproduce; the use note on each is binding.
Tooling
Applicant tracking, roughly by scale: Workable, JazzHR or the hiring module of an all-in-one HRIS at small scale; Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby once structured interviewing and reporting matter; Workday Recruiting or SmartRecruiters at enterprise scale, and similar.
Sourcing and scheduling: LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, GoodTime, and similar.
Put the scorecard in the tracking system rather than beside it. A structured process that lives in a separate document is a structured process that stops being followed in the first busy week.
Never
- Lower the bar because the search has been long. Reopen the role definition instead.
- Let one interviewer's strong view override written independent assessments.
- Skip reference checks on judgment and collaboration, which are exactly what interviews measure worst.
© cbrock84, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in plugins/people/skills/hiring-and-interviewing of cbrock84/headcount.
- SKILL.md
- references/sources.md
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 98d1c17
Compare with similar skills
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hiring And Interviewing this skillcbrock84/headcount | 2k | — | ~960 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Job Application Managerreactive-resume/reactive-resume | 44k | — | ~13k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Mock Interviewreactive-resume/reactive-resume | 44k | — | ~11k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Offer Negotiationreactive-resume/reactive-resume | 44k | — | ~10k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| LLM Intern Skillwanyichen06/LLMInternSkill | 326 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Backend Interview SimulatorHazehacker/backend-interview-simulator | 208 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Hiring And Interviewing
What does Hiring And Interviewing do?
Designs and runs hiring — role definition, sourcing, interview loop design, structured evaluation, and the decision itself. Hiring And Interviewing is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Designs and runs hiring — role definition, sourcing, interview loop design, structured evaluation, and the decision itself.
When should I use Hiring And Interviewing?
Hiring And Interviewing fits situations like: tasks that involve Recruiting and HR; tasks that involve Interview preparation.
How do I install Hiring And Interviewing in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill hiring-and-interviewing -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/people/skills/hiring-and-interviewing in cbrock84/headcount) into .claude/skills/hiring-and-interviewing in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Hiring And Interviewing in Codex?
Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill hiring-and-interviewing -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/people/skills/hiring-and-interviewing in cbrock84/headcount) into .agents/skills/hiring-and-interviewing in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Hiring And Interviewing in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill hiring-and-interviewing -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/hiring-and-interviewing, .gemini/skills/hiring-and-interviewing, .github/skills/hiring-and-interviewing and .opencode/skills/hiring-and-interviewing in your project.
What does Hiring And Interviewing need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Hiring And Interviewing is instructions for the agent only.
Does Hiring And Interviewing access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Hiring And Interviewing safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Hiring And Interviewing use?
Hiring And Interviewing is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Hiring And Interviewing use?
About 960 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 457 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to Hiring And Interviewing?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Hiring And Interviewing: Job Application Manager (reactive-resume/reactive-resume, 44k stars), Mock Interview (reactive-resume/reactive-resume, 44k stars), Offer Negotiation (reactive-resume/reactive-resume, 44k stars) and LLM Intern Skill (wanyichen06/LLMInternSkill, 326 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Hiring And Interviewing?
cbrock84 (a GitHub user) maintains it in cbrock84/headcount, which has 2,022 GitHub stars. The repository holds 178 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 17, 2026.
Source: cbrock84/headcount on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.