Candidate scores are calculated by comparing job criteria and enriched resumes. Job criteria can be entered manually or automatically generated from your job description and hiring notes.

Candidates can be rescored by adding, removing, or modifying criteria. There is no limit to how often candidates can be rescored.

Key information

  1. Candidates can be filtered by specific criteria. (Tip: If you want to filter candidates by specific qualifications, make them separate criteria.)
  2. Make your criteria a specific as possible.
    1. Criteria can include specific company data like industry, year founded, number of employees, company type (private or public), estimate revenue, and latest funding.
    2. Criteria can relate to specific screening questions. (Tip: SquarePeg will use a screening question answer to determine the criteria’s score if a specific screening question is mentioned along with an example of your desired answer.)
  3. Be sure to specify weights for each criteria. Weights determine impact on total score.
  4. After adding or editing criteria, click Score Candidates to apply your changes.

Generate criteria from notes

Use Generate from Notes to create criteria quickly from a job description or your own notes.

  1. Open the All Jobs page.
  2. Select the job you want to score.
  3. Click the lightening icon next to the job’s title.
  4. Click Generate Criteria from Notes.
    1. Click Import Job Description to paste in the job description,.
    2. Enter your own notes (hiring manager notes, intake notes, etc.)
    3. Tip: For the most accurate criteria, combine your Job Description and notes.
  5. Click Generate Criteria.

Add criteria manually

  1. Open the All Jobs page.
  2. Select the job you want to score.
  3. Click the lightening icon next to the job’s title.
  4. Click Add Individual Criteria.
    1. Enter a short, UI-friendly label, for your criteria.
    2. Enter a detailed description of your criteria.
  5. Select a weight.
    1. Required: strongest impact on total score (3x)
    2. Preferred: moderate impact on total score (2x)
    3. Bonus: lighter impact on total score (1x)