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Set Role Criteria

Learn how to define the skills, background, and traits that matter for your role. Architect will suggest criteria based on your job description, which you can customize to fit your hiring needs.

Written by Pernilla Ahl
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Getting started

After adding your job description, you'll move to the Set Role Criteria step. This is where you define what success looks like for the role by selecting the skills, background requirements, and traits you want to assess.

Architect analyzes your job description and pre-populates suggested criteria to help you get started quickly.

💡Note: You can add, remove, or adjust any criteria to match your specific hiring needs. The criteria you define here will determine which assessments Architect recommends in your process.

Understanding role criteria

Role criteria are organized into three categories:

Category

Description

Examples

Skills & Knowledge

Specific abilities or competencies required for the role

Technical skills (e.g. Python, data analysis), soft skills (e.g. communication, problem-solving), domain expertise (e.g. financial modeling, project management)

Background & Experience

Experience, education, or qualifications needed

Years of experience, educational requirements, certifications or licenses, industry experience

Traits

Personality characteristics or behavioural tendencies that contribute to success

Stress tolerance, curiosity, change orientation

Reviewing Architect's suggestions

The criteria you define here will shape your entire assessment process - from the questions candidates are asked to how they're evaluated. That's why it's important to be intentional about what you include.

A good rule of thumb: only keep the criteria you know you want to actively evaluate during the hiring process. If a criterion won't influence how you assess or compare candidates, it will add noise rather than clarity.

Here are some guiding questions to help you decide what to keep:

  • Will you assess this? If there's no plan to measure a criterion, consider removing it.

  • Is it truly required for success? Separate must-haves from nice-to-haves. Focus your criteria on what's essential for performing well in the role.

  • Can it be developed on the job? If a skill or trait can be learned quickly after joining, it may not need to be a selection criterion.

💡Less is more. A focused set of well-chosen criteria leads to a more structured, efficient, and fair hiring process. Aim for quality over quantity.

Adding or removing criteria

Architect's suggestions are a great starting point, but you can add new criteria or remove ones that don't fit your needs. Here's how to customize your criteria:

To add a criterion:

  1. Type your criterion into the text field under Skills, Background, or Traits

  2. Click Add

To remove a criterion:

  1. Find the criterion you want to remove

  2. Click the X to the right of the criterion

Next steps

Once you've finalized your role criteria, click Next Step to move to the next step: designing your assessment plan. Architect will recommend specific assessments and interview questions based on the criteria you've defined.

➡️ Next step: Design Assessment Plan

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