Terminology guide for live interviews
Use this guide to understand common terms used throughout Kira's live interview experience.
General terminology
- Circuit - the full interview experience an applicant completes, consisting of one or more stations
- Station - a scheduled segment of a circuit where one or more applicants interact with a particular reviewer
- Question - a prompt or scenario presented to an applicant to respond to during a station
- Competency - a quality, skill, or characteristic that an applicant is evaluated on
- Rubric - the criteria reviewers use to evaluate and score an applicant for a competency
- Participant - anyone who directly participates in a live interview, including applicants, reviewers, and observers
- Applicant - a participant being evaluated during an interview
- Reviewer - a participant responsible for evaluating applicants and submitting ratings and comments
- Observer - a participant who can join a station without evaluating the applicant - they may watch the interview or participate in a station scenario
- Single-applicant station - a station where one applicant is evaluated
- Multi-applicant station / group station - a station where two or more applicants are evaluated together
- Pairing station - a station where exactly two applicants are evaluated together (applicants may be assigned different roles and switch roles between stations)
- Single-length station - the standard station duration configured for a circuit
- Double-length station - a station that is twice the duration of a single-length station
- Break station - a station where reviewers are not assigned applicants to evaluate, providing a scheduled break within the circuit
- Bonus time - additional time at the end of a circuit for reviewers to finish notes, ratings, or other evaluation tasks.