Recruitment is not always an easy game! You have so many talented people in the pipe, and your mission is to find the perfect match for the role.
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To make this process as fair, efficient, and successful as possible, a structured evaluation is a great place to start. By evaluating candidates in the same way and focusing on how well their profiles match the role’s requirements, you can reduce bias and find the best match for your role. Win-win!
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Evaluating your candidates will result in a Job Match score, which will provide a better overview of which candidates match the desired Skills and Traits the most:

Let's take it step by step! 🚀
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You will find the evaluation step when editing or creating a new job (or job template):
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Here you will be able to add Skills and Traits that you are looking for in your new colleague. Select from the drop-down menu, or press + Add a new skill or trait. Skills will be marked in blue, and Traits in yellow.
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Once the Skills and Traits have been added, you can decide their importance, by choosing the skills and traits relative weight towards each other.
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The Skills and Traits marked as high are the most important ones for this job:
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💡 With this update, users that have access to create jobs are also able to create their own interview kits directly in the job's edit mode.
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The next step is to add interview kits. You can create new interview kits or use existing ones. If you've added a Skill or Trait to the job that matches an existing interview kit, that interview kit will be suggested:
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If you create a new kit, the Skills and Traits you've already picked in the job, are automatically added to the interview kit:
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Perhaps you want to evaluate certain Skills or Traits during the process, but you don't want your scoring on that certain Skill or Trait to affect the candidate's Job Match score.
No problem! You can add additional Skills and Traits to the Interview kit. These will not be taken into consideration in the Job Match score. Instead, they will be shown in the Interview feedback:

What questions would you like to ask in order to help evaluate the chosen Skills and Traits? The next step is to add the questions you want to ask during the interview, based on the Skills and Traits you've chosen for the job.

Drag and drop to change the order of your questions:
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Once added, you'll see the option to attach this interview kit to a certain stage of the process. That kit will then be pre-selected when scheduling an interview with a candidate in that stage.
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Attaching an interview kit to a stage is especially useful if you're planning on using multiple kits in the same job. You can create as many interview kits as you want, and connect them to different stages.
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You'll easily see when the candidate is in a stage that the Interview kit has been assigned to:
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If a candidate applies to a job containing interview kits, these will automatically be added to the candidate's profile under the tab Interviews. This is where you evaluate and add your interview kit feedback:
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Any added feedback, from your team or yourself, will be displayed on the left-hand side of the profile, under Interview feedback.
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When you have filled in your interview kit you will be able to see the candidate's Job match score percentage and everyone else's scores under Job Match.
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The Job Match score will be visible both within the candidate profile and in the stages overview 👇

When calculating the job match score we sum up the average match for each skill/trait multiplied by its weight. An average score of 5 counts as 100% match for that skill or trait, a score of 4 is a 75% match, and so on.
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We don't look at the individual scores for each skill/trait, just the average (in the Total column). So having one user score a skill a 5 and two other users not scoring that skill at all is the same if all three users scored that skill a 5. The average (of all scores given) is still 5.
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If there are no scores at all for a skill we don't have any information about how that skill contributes to the job match score for that candidate. And in this case no information = lowest score, so it is effectively the same as receiving an average score of 1 for that skill. You can think of it as if you skip a test in school you would receive the lowest grade (F or equivalent) for that test.
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As an example, if the evaluation profile of a job has the skills Project Management and Communication, with weights of 80% and 20% respectively, and a candidate has received average scores of 4 and 1 for those skills respectively, their job match score would be 65%.
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The calculation would look like this: 0.75*0.8 + 0.25*0.2 = 0.65 .

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