Recruitment and selection · The decision record · Element
The decision
Who was appointed, by whom, and on what basis.
The part
What it is
The basis matters more than the outcome. “Strongest on the two essential criteria” and “best fit with the team” are different decisions with different failure modes.
Where the decision went against the scores, that is worth recording explicitly rather than leaving the discrepancy unexplained.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.
Basis
Especially where the decision diverged from the scores, which is exactly when it is forgotten.
Reason shared type