This article describes how to carry out structured candidate evaluations using customizable questionnaires.
Benefits
Creating and using evaluation forms in your recruitment process allows you to:
- Ensure that the recruitment process is fair by collecting clear, consistent feedback from interviewers.
- Easily request reviews or attach forms to interviews.
- Set up evaluation forms necessary for each interview type with different evaluation criteria.
Evaluation sections
In every evaluation form, there are usually several sections. Each section contains several items, or questions, that you can use to collect feedback from your interviewers. You can reuse sections by adding them to different forms.
Each item in a section will have one of the following methods of gathering information:
| Method | Description |
| Sub-section title | Sub-section titles facilitate the organization of questionnaires in blocks. |
| Textfield | Text fields are used to enter qualitative feedback. |
| Scale |
You can quantify the evaluation of your employees using a 5-point scale. If you use multiple scales, you have the option of depicting the relevance of individual questions by weighting them with values between 0 and 1. On this basis, an overall result from all ratings is calculated. Learn more about how the results from scales are calculated. |
To add a new section, follow these steps:
- Go to Settings > Recruiting > Recruiting.
- Click into the Evaluations tab and then go to Sections on the left.
- Click Add new section.
- In the dialog that appears, enter the name of the new section.
- You can now add items to your section. Under Add new item, use the dropdown to select whether you want the item to be a scale, textfield, or sub-section title.
- An accordion will appear below. Add a title, information for the evaluator if necessary, and add the labels for the lowest and highest score if you are using a scale.
- You can add further items to the section as you see fit.
- Click Apply changes to save the items in your new section.
Evaluation forms
To create an evaluation form, follow these steps:
- Go to Settings > Recruiting > Recruiting.
- Click the Evaluations tab and then go to Forms on the left.
- Click Add new form.
- In the dialog that appears, enter the name of the new form.
- You can now add sections to your form. Under Select section, use the dropdown to add sections by checking the relevant boxes.
Note
The sections Key Takeaways and Overall Recommendation are by default added to each evaluation form to summarize the evaluation. - Click Apply changes to save the sections in your new form.
Tips
▶︎ Learn how to use candidate evaluation forms via the candidate's evaluation tab, via a feedback request, or via an interview.
▶︎ Read our Best Practice article for some examples of typical evaluation forms and their components.