Once you have completed an interview, you should typically see a screen like this one:

This screen allows you to customize your completed interview guide.

Setting Up Your Report

1. Colors: You have the option of customizing report colors; two colors can be chosen. The screens will lead you through the color-setting process.
2. Logo: You can insert a picture on the front cover of the interview guide. Many users insert their organization's logo. Simply find the image you wish to import by using the "browse" command. The image will need to be in .jpg format to be accepted by the program.
3. Report Format: Select the format you prefer: HTML, PDF or Rich Text (Word), long or short. The system will then prepare your interview guide (may take a few seconds to a few minutes to complete). Your completed report will automatically appear on the screen.

The two versions of the interview guide, or report, are very helpful documents to the entire interview experience, not just the competencies section of your interviews. Both Word versions (long and short) cover the entire interview with open fields to fill in with information about the interview itself – the interviewers names, dates, details about the job – and space for you to insert any technical skills, background or knowledge you intend to assess in the interview. Because this is a Word version with some information loaded in by IG, you can add to what is there by simply typing in your own material, such as technical requirements, and then save to your own computer. You can also type in your notes about the candidate once the interview is over. This makes the interview guide a complete record of the interviews you conduct and a very critical document because it can serve as a record of what questions the candidate responded to and what the candidate said.

The Long version of the report includes helpful material that you might or might not want to use or refer to when conducting interviews. It is recommended that you create one Long version during the selection process for a particular job, and then use the Short version for multiple candidates, since you can always refer to the one Long version throughout the process if you like some of the material, or questions presented there.

We recommend that you take the time to go into IG and download both a long and short version of an interview guide and review these in detail before you start using the system for your first round of real interviews.