A job's requirements are the rubric every candidate is scored against. When you change them, scores made against the old requirements are marked as stale, so you know the ranking may be out of date and can bring it up to date in one step.
Graded requirements
Requirements come in three grades, and each grade plays a different part in a candidate's score:
- Must-have: the hard bar. How many must-haves a candidate can show is the biggest single part of the score, and each missing must-have raises the candidate's risk. Every job needs at least one.
- Preferred: a strong plus, with a smaller share of the score.
- Nice-to-have: a bonus. Nice-to-haves are checked and shown on the scorecard, but they have no share of the score of their own.
You can change how much must-haves and preferred skills count, for the company or for one job. See Tune your screening profile.
Change the requirements
- Open the job from Jobs and select Edit.
- Change the skills under Must-have skills, Preferred skills and Nice-to-have skills. Type a skill and press Enter to add it; select the small cross on a skill to remove it.
- Select Save changes.
New applications are scored against the new requirements from then on. Candidates who were already scored keep their score until you re-score them.
Versions
Every time the requirements are saved, the job moves to a new requirements version, and every scorecard remembers the version it was made against. That is how the app can tell you which scores are out of date, and why a scorecard can always be traced back to the rubric that produced it.
See which scores are stale
When at least one candidate's score was made against older requirements, two things appear.
Step 1: Status
The job itself stays open; nothing about intake changes.
Step 2: Re-score stale
The button counts the candidates whose current score is out of date, for example Re-score 3 stale.
Step 3: Job actions
Edit is where the requirements are changed.
On each affected candidate, a Requirements changed since scoring badge sits under their name, at the top of their page:
Marco Silva
6y platform engineering, ex-fintech at Revolut · Lisbon, Portugal (remote) · 6 yrs exp
Re-score the stale candidates
Select Re-score N stale on the job's page. Those candidates go back into the screening queue and are scored again against the current requirements. A message confirms how many were queued, and the new scores appear as each one finishes.
Re-scoring never happens on its own when you edit a job: each re-score is a fresh AI run, so a person decides when it is worth it. Re-scoring is included in your plan and never charged, but each job can be re-scored in bulk a limited number of times a month. The button shows how many re-scores are left. See Rescoring.
Owners, Admins, Recruiters and Hiring Managers can re-score. Changing the requirements needs permission to manage jobs.
What does not mark scores as stale
- Scoring changes. Changing the job's scoring weights, values or standards does not create a new requirements version. The Screening page offers its own Re-score this job for that. See Rescoring.
- Interview setup. Changing the interview panel or interview questions has no effect on scores.
- Screening questions. Adding or changing questions affects new applicants only.