Every role requires specific talents, and finding the right fit goes beyond just resumes. With Scorecards, your team can assess candidates consistently based on the personality traits and skills that matter most to the role. This not only ensures fair and structured evaluations but also helps you identify top talent faster and with greater confidence.
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Set up evaluation criteria
In the edit mode of the job or job template, you'll find the Evaluation section. Here, you can define the key skills and traits your ideal candidate should have.
Click Select skills and traits to select a pre-existing skill/trait from the drop-down list. Or + Add a skill or trait to add a new one.
Under Settings → Recruitment → Skills and traits you can view and delete existing skills and traits in your account.
Once you’ve added the skills and traits, you can assign weights to indicate which are most important and should be prioritized. This helps when comparing candidates and ensures the hiring team is aligned on priorities.
Once the criteria are saved, they will be available for the hiring team to use in evaluating candidates for the job in question.
Evaluate the candidate
Scorecards can be filled out for a candidate by opening their candidate card within a job process and selecting Evaluation in the sidebar menu.
Each skill and trait can be evaluated on a scale from 1 to 5. You can also add additional comments at the bottom.
Once completed, click Save to submit your evaluation. If you need to make changes later, you can edit the scorecard in the same place.
If no scorecards are visible under Evaluation in the candidate profile, it’s most likely because:
The candidate has not been added to a job.
The job the candidate is added to does not have a scorecard set up yet.
View evaluations
Submitted scorecards can be found under Evaluations on the left side of the candidate card. Here, you can view both your own and your colleagues evaluations, making it easy to compare and see how closely your assessments align.
Job match score
Once you’ve evaluated the skills and traits defined in the job’s scorecard, a Job match score will appear as a pink bar on the job application. This percentage indicates how well the candidate fits the position, based on both the evaluated skills and traits and their assigned weights.
The Job match score is visible on both the candidate card and in the stages overview in the job process.
The breakdown of the Job match score can be found in the Job match breakdown section on the left-hand side of the candidate card. Here, you can view your own and your colleagues evaluations, along with the weighted skills and traits that make up the score.
Job match score calculation
The job match score is calculated by summing the average score (total column) for each skill or trait, multiplied by its weight (%).
A score of 5 counts as a 100% match, 4 as 75%, 3 as 50%, and so on.
Only the average score (total column) is used. For example, if one person gives a skill a 5 and two others don’t score it, it’s the same as all three giving it a 5—the average is still 5.
If a skill has no scores at all, we treat it as the lowest possible score (1), since we have no information to confirm the candidate’s ability.
Example:
If a job has Project Management (80% weight) and Leadership (20% weight), and the candidate’s average scores are 4 (75%) and 1 (0%), the calculation is:
0.75 × 0.8 + 0 × 0.2 = 0.65 → 65% match
Compare evaluations
When using our Compare candidates feature, you’ll see the evaluated skills, traits, and the Job Match Score included in the comparison. Read more about this feature here.
Filter on skills and traits
Under Candidates, you can filter by skills and traits. This helps you find candidates with already evaluated skills and traits, great for identifying talent within your candidate bank.
Find the Select skill or trait filter and select the skill or trait you want to filter on.
Once you select a skill or trait, you can filter by a specific value (1–5), a range, or other available options.
If there are specific skills and traits you want to always see in the overview, you can customize your columns. Under Skills/Traits, you can pin the ones you want to display as columns in your candidate bank.
The selected columns display average scores for specific skills and traits across all jobs where they’ve been evaluated. If you filter by a specific job, the columns will instead show the average scores for applications to that job only.
