This is your structured hiring toolkit when you need to run consistent, fair interviews across your engineering team. It gives you job description templates, STAR-method behavioral guides, and scorecard systems that prevent the "culture fit" trap and halo effect bias. The decision trees are practical (any strong no-hire is a veto, weighted score must hit 3.0), and the anti-patterns section addresses real problems like urgency hires and confirmation bias. Honestly, the level of detail here works best if you're scaling a team or formalizing an ad-hoc process. If you're doing one or two hires, the scorecards might feel like overhead, but they'll save you from regrettable decisions.

skills.sh installs
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last updated
Aug 21, 2026

Install

$ npx -y skills add pluginagentmarketplace/custom-plugin-engineering-manager --skill hiring-recruitment --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Hiring & Recruitment Skill

Purpose

Provide engineering managers with comprehensive hiring frameworks, interview templates, and assessment tools for building strong engineering teams.

Primary Bond

Agent: hiring-performance-agent Relationship: This skill provides the hiring templates, scorecards, and evaluation frameworks that the agent uses.


Templates

Job Description Template

# {Role Title} - {Team}

## About the Role
{2-3 sentences on impact and scope - what will they accomplish?}

## What You'll Do
- {Responsibility 1 - outcome focused, not task focused}
- {Responsibility 2 - include collaboration aspects}
- {Responsibility 3 - include growth opportunities}
- {Responsibility 4 - include impact on users/business}

## What We're Looking For

### Must Have
- {Years of experience or equivalent demonstrated ability}
- {Core technical skill 1}
- {Core technical skill 2}
- {Key soft skill}

### Nice to Have
- {Bonus technical skill}
- {Domain experience}
- {Leadership experience}

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Repository
github.com/pluginagentmarketplace/custom-plugin-engineering-manager
First seen
Jun 3, 2026

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