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, give interviewers guidance on how to score, and rate candidates using a standardised scoring system.
Scorecards allow you to create a set of questions or evaluation criteria for each role. You can link a scorecard to a specific interview, so every interviewer knows exactly what to assess and can rate candidates on a scale of 1 to 5, ensuring consistency across the hiring process.
This helps teams:
Run structured interviews with a clear interview kit and guidance
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, guidance on what a good answer looks like, 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 scorecards to Job Profiles – they’re included automatically in any project created from that Job Profile (or from a requisition using it)
Link a scorecard to an interview when arranging interviews, and fill it in directly from the interview
Automatic reminder emails to interviewers who haven’t completed their scorecard after an interview
Rich-text scoring guides for the whole scorecard and for individual questions
Choose a scoring mode per question: score required, score optional, or comment only
Rich-text formatting for per-question and summary comments
Hover over the CV icon in the Scorecards tab to preview the candidate’s CV
Re-select a rating to deselect it
How to use scorecards
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 can be edited or cloned within the actions menu in the scorecard list.
Scoring guide
Add a scoring guide to help interviewers score consistently. You can add a guide for the entire scorecard and, optionally, for each individual question. Scoring guides support rich text, so you can use headings, bullet points, bold text, and links – for example, to describe what a 1, 3, or 5 answer looks like.
Scoring mode
Choose how each question should be answered:
Score required – the interviewer must give a score from 1 to 5
Score optional – the interviewer can give a score, but it isn’t required
Comment only – no score, just written feedback (useful for open questions or notes)
Add scorecards to a Job Profile or 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.
You can also add scorecards to a Job Profile. When a project is created from that Job Profile – or from a requisition that uses the Job Profile – the scorecards are included in the project automatically. This is a great way to make sure the same roles are always assessed in the same way.
Link a scorecard to an interview
When arranging interviews, you can now select one of the project’s scorecards for the interview set. No scorecard is selected by default.
Once linked, scorecard responses are associated with that interview, and interviewers can fill in the scorecard directly from the interview modal – no need to search for the candidate separately.
Add your score
Each project member can complete the scorecard by rating each question on a scale from 1 to 5 (depending on the question’s scoring mode) and adding a comment per question. You can also add a summary comment for your overall impression.
Both per-question and summary comments support rich text, so you can structure your feedback with bullet points, bold text, and more.
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
💡 Tip: In the Scorecards tab, hover over the CV icon to preview the candidate’s CV while you score.
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. Hover over the small icon next to a user’s total score to see their Summary.
Expanded detail view:
Sort candidates by scorecard scores
Scorecard reminders
When a scorecard is linked to an interview and hasn’t been filled in, Teamdash automatically sends a reminder email to the interview participants once the booked slot has ended. The email lists the candidates and the scorecard still to complete, so feedback is captured while it’s still fresh.
Reminders are on by default. Admins can turn them on or off under Settings → Organization → Project → Remind interviewers to fill in scorecards.
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 Scorecards tab, there is 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 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
Recommendations
Link a scorecard to each interview so interviewers have their questions and scoring guide to hand, and so reminders are sent automatically if a scorecard isn’t filled in.
Add scorecards to your Job Profiles for roles you hire for regularly. Every new project for that role will then start with the right scorecards in place.
Leave the Remind interview participants toggle ON to ensure managers who do not fill them during the interview receive an automatic reminder.
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 can be a good way to analyse 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:
Run structured interviews with a consistent interview kit
Standardise candidate evaluations with clear scoring guides
Provide structured, detailed feedback
Improve collaboration and transparency
Make more confident hiring decisions
If you wish to learn more about the Scorecards Add-on, contact us via [email protected] or the chat.