In Teamtailor, you will find several features designed to help you evaluate candidates throughout the different stages of the recruitment process. In this article, we have summarized these features to help you find what best suits your way of working and supports your team.

An overview of our main features for evaluating candidates:

Let’s go through them one by one, followed by other helpful tools available across the platform.
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Reviews work as a quick way to rate the candidate's fit for your company and/or job application. You can add a star rating and include an optional comment to provide additional context. There are two types of reviews, each designed for a different purpose:

Candidate review (orange stars):

An assessment of how well the candidate fits your company overall. This is especially useful if the candidate hasn’t applied for a specific role yet, as it provides an indication for future opportunities.

Job application review (yellow stars):

An assessment of how well the candidate suits a specific role and the quality of their application. A valuable screening tool for the early hiring stages, helping your team quickly identify applications that best meet the requirements.

Read more about our Reviews feature in our article here.

A Job scorecard can be set up within a job process to define the key skills and traits your ideal hire should possess. This ensures that you and your hiring team stay aligned on which candidates should progress through the process.

Once the criteria are saved, they become available for the hiring team to use when evaluating candidates for that specific role. Each skill and trait can be rated on a scale from 1 to 5, along with additional comments that can be added.

Read more about our Job scorecard feature in our article here.

A Job match score will be generated once the skills and traits from a Job scorecard have been evaluated. It will appear as a pink bar with a percentage that indicates how well the candidate fits the position.

The score will be based on both the evaluated skills and traits and their assigned weights from the Job scorecard.

Read more about our Job match score feature in our article here.

An interview kit helps you create a structured guideline for conducting interviews, including the specific questions your team should ask to evaluate candidates. These questions can focus on relevant skills and traits, as well as practical matters such as availability or administrative details.

The selected interview kits will be accessible to the hiring team via the candidate card during both live and video interviews. The user conducting the interview can use the kit to note the candidate's answers and add their own comments.

Keeping everything in one place brings structure to the process and encourages further discussion within the hiring team.

​Read more about our Interview kits feature in our article here.

Our Quality of Hire evaluation helps you assess whether your recruitment efforts resulted in successful hires. The evaluation can be scheduled manually or automatically and is sent to a selected user after a defined period, giving them the opportunity to reflect on whether they would rehire the candidate. It also includes the option to re-score the candidate’s skills and traits, as defined in the job scorecard, helping you identify areas for improvement in your recruitment process.

Once the evaluation has been submitted, you will see a comparison between the scores from the recruitment process and the new scores post-hire. This provides valuable insights to help improve future recruitment efforts.

Read more about our Quality of Hire feature here.

Whether you're just starting a recruitment process, comparing active applications, or assessing current hires, your evaluations are available throughout the platform to help you identify top talent.

The Candidates tab is the ideal starting point for finding existing talent in your account. Use filters to quickly locate candidates who match specific criteria.

Filter: Candidate rating / Job application ratings

Find candidates with a specific rating or within a selected range.

Filter: Rated by

View candidates based on ratings from you or other users.

Filter: Select skills or trait

Locate candidates with specific scores on selected skills and traits.

​Filter: Select question
Search for candidates based on answers provided by a user in an interview kit and/or answers given by the candidate themselves in a job application or questionnaire.

Customize your columns to ensure you have a clear and organized overview of candidate information. This helps you focus on what matters most in your upcoming recruitment process.

Column: Candidate ratings
Display ratings from candidate reviews directly in the candidate table.

Column: Application ratings
View ratings from job application reviews. Note that this column is only available when a job filter is applied.

Column: Select skill or trait
Customize your columns to display average scores for selected skills and traits.

Throughout the hiring process, you can compare candidates to identify the best match for the role you want to move forward with. In the comparison view, you'll find the candidate's information along with the following evaluation data:

Your evaluation data will be accessible in various parts of the Analytics reports, enabling you to track and assess the quality of candidates, job applications, and hires throughout the recruitment process.