Candidate scores

Candidate scores are a customizable ranking system that uses proven data to highlight your top applicants. When a candidate applies, they are assigned a candidate score percentage based on key elements of their application.

📊  Candidate score components

A candidate score is made up of three components:

1. Distance: This score accounts for the distance between the candidate’s home address and the address of the location where they applied. Distance is scored out of 20 points. If the applicant is less than 2 miles away from the store, they earn the full 20 points. After that, they get -2 points for every mile of distance. Above 12 miles, their entire candidate score is multiplied by 0.7.
2. Availability: This score matches the candidate's availability to the availability needs that you set up in the job template. You can adjust your availability needs (and whether they are "critical" or "normal") from within a template!
3. Answers: This score compares candidate's responses to your screening questions to your desired responses. You can edit the importance of individual questions – as well as your desired responses – from within a template.

Availability is a candidate score ingredient, but it is also a standalone metric that you can filter your applications list by. Each application's availability candidate is displayed as a percentage alongside the main candidate score (as above). Learn how to filter your applications by availability fit, distance, and more here!

Applicants that record a video cover letter will also get a small boost to their candidate score. ⚡

⭐️  Candidate score weights

• Important: This is the default. The component will be counted in the candidate score as usual.
• Not important: When you set a component's weight to "not important," that component will not be factored into the candidate score.
• Critical: When you set a component's weight to "critical," that component will count for a greater proportion of the candidate score.

✏️  Editing candidate score by role

We know that your criteria for hiring a cook might be different from your criteria for hiring a host or a delivery driver. That's why you can set up candidate score differently for each template. Adjust the weights of your scoring criteria and add custom screening questions for each job. 1. Open the template for a role whose candidate score you want to edit. 2. On the left-hand side, open the Questions tab. 3. You'll see a breakdown of the three candidate score components. Set the weight of each component to reflect your hiring needs for that role. Don't forget to save your changes!