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Every CV scored against your criteria, with the reasoning attached
You write what matters for the role. Every application that lands gets a score against it, a sub-score per criterion, and a written justification you can read, check and disagree with.
CV grading in Alert Hire scores every application against the criteria you wrote for that role: one sub-score per criterion, one overall score, and a written justification that quotes the CV. Names, photos, age and address are removed before grading. A low score is not a rejection.
Watch a grade happen
A CV read section by section, scored 90 out of 100
The walkthrough below is the grading view a recruiter sees. It plays once and holds the finished grade card.
How a grade is built
Four steps, none of them a black box
Criteria in your words
Must-haves, nice-to-haves and how much each one counts, written per role by the recruiter who owns it. No generic "good candidate" model.
Identifiers stripped
Name, photo, date of birth, address and anything else that signals who the person is are removed before the grader reads a word.
Read section by section
Experience, qualifications, skills and the rest are checked against each criterion in turn. Missing evidence is scored as missing, not guessed.
Score with a justification
One sub-score per criterion, one overall score, and a written explanation that quotes the CV. If a candidate is marked down, you can see exactly why.
What a criterion looks like
Specific enough to check, weighted the way you would
Good criteria are things a CV can answer. "Five or more years running payroll for 200+ staff" grades cleanly. "Culture fit" does not, and Alert Hire will tell you so when you write it.
Anything a CV cannot answer, like notice period, salary expectations or shift flexibility, belongs in the screening conversation instead.
Five or more years processing end-to-end payroll in Australia.
Hands-on with at least one major payroll platform (MicrOpay, Chris21, ADP, Employment Hero).
Has interpreted a modern award or EBA in a previous role.
Experience with a payroll system migration.
Exposure to New Zealand payroll.
Candidates scoring 70 or above are sent the screening questions the same day. Everyone else stays in the list, graded and visible.
Questions about grading
Bullhorn’s GRID 2026 report found 54% of APAC agencies saw KPIs improve by more than 25% from AI screening alone. Whether that holds for you depends on the criteria, which is why they are yours to write. The full list of questions is on the home page. Anything else: admin@alertai.com.au.
Names, photos, age, address, and the school and graduation dates that stand in for age. The grader sees the experience, the skills and the qualifications, scored against criteria you wrote. Every sub-score quotes the line in the CV that produced it, so you can check the reasoning rather than trust it.
Yes, that is the point of the sub-scores. Click one and it shows the sentence in the CV it was drawn from and the written justification for the mark. If you disagree, the criterion was yours to write, so edit it and regrade. A low grade is never a rejection.
All of them are read. Whatever your ATS holds for the application is normalised into one structure before grading, so a two-page Word CV and a twelve-page PDF get the same treatment. A CV the grader cannot read at all is flagged for you rather than scored.
Yes. Edit the criteria and every application on the role is regraded, with the previous grade kept in the history. Conversations already underway are not restarted.
See your own criteria graded against a real stack of CVs
Bring a role you are screening now. We will show you the grades, the reasoning, and what the shortlist would have looked like this morning.