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Scorecards (Add-On)

Why and how to use candidate scorecards for evaluation

Written by Triin Elias

Candidate Scorecards

The Scorecards add-on helps your hiring team evaluate candidates in a structured, consistent, and fair way. Instead of relying on subjective impressions, you can define clear evaluation criteria and rate candidates using a standardised scoring system.

Scorecards allow you to create a set of questions or evaluation criteria for each role. Each interviewer can then rate candidates on a scale of 1 to 5, ensuring consistency across the hiring process.

This helps teams:

  • Reduce bias in decision-making

  • Compare candidates more objectively

  • Provide clear, structured feedback

Benefits

For your hiring team, it’s good preparation for an interview. Your managers have a clear picture of what attributes they need to assess and they can easily give the recruiters the much-needed constructive feedback. Not to mention, constructive feedback is something that the candidates want as well. Use the scorecards as a resource for providing detailed feedback to your candidates.

⭐ What’s new

  • Add comments per question when completing scorecards

  • Improved visibility

    • Option to view all candidate scorecards for all projects you have access to

    • New (admin controlled) setting to show all scorecards to all users, regardless of team or project visibility

How to use scorecards

  1. Create Scorecards via the Settings menu.

    Create a scorecard with relevant questions or simpler criteria such as communication skills, technical ability, or cultural fit for the role. Scorecards be edited or cloned within the actions menu in the scorecard list.

  2. Assign Scorecards to a project

    Attach one or more scorecards to your project so that recruiters/interviewers can use them when evaluating candidates at each relevant screening or interview stage.

  3. Add your score

    Each project member can complete the scorecard by rating each question on a scale from 1 to 5. Additionally you can now add a comment per question.

    This allows you to provide more detailed and structured feedback for each evaluation area, rather than relying only on an overall impression.


    ​This is especially useful for:

    • Highlighting specific strengths or concerns

    • Providing more context to each score provided

    • Giving actionable feedback to hiring managers

    • Supporting fair and transparent decision-making
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    Review feedback from other Project Members:


    Once scorecards are completed, you can review all feedback from all members in one place, to compare scores and support hiring decisions.
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    Expanded detail view:
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  4. You can sort candidates by scorecard scores:
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Fair evaluations

The project manager can turn on the possibility of fair evaluations from the project view under the stage menu. Enabling this option is useful for promoting transparency and fairness in the assessment process. Allowing recruiters to view each other's ratings and comments only after providing their own evaluations, which fosters accountability and encourages honest and unbiased feedback. This helps ensure that evaluations are based on merit and objective criteria rather than personal biases or hidden agendas.

Scorecard visibility across projects

In the scorecard tab, there is now an option to show all candidate scorecards from all projects that you have access to. This is the same control as is already available in Comments and History.

There is also a new setting available to Admins to show all scorecards to all users. When this setting is enabled, users can see scorecards from all projects regardless of team or project visibility.

This helps Group company teams:

  • Get a complete view of candidate evaluations across different hiring processes

  • Avoid duplicate assessments

  • Make better decisions using shared insights
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Recommendations

If you’re not grading your candidates during the interview, we recommend adding your scores as soon as possible. It will save time for interviewers, recruiters, and candidates.

Scorecards are a great way to see feedback in a consolidated way.

To keep the process moving quickly, use our automated tools to ping your project members to add their scores and comments to the scorecard.

The scorecards can be a good way to analyze the hiring team's performance as well. If you discover any outlier scores, you might want to discuss it with your hiring manager for the reason behind it. You may pinpoint some unintentional bias or an opportunity to train your managers to improve their interviewing skills.

Summary

With scorecards, your team can:

  • Standardise candidate evaluations

  • Provide structured, detailed feedback

  • Improve collaboration and transparency

  • Make more confident hiring decisions

If you wish to get a quote for the Scorecards feature, contact us via help@teamdash.com or the chat.

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