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One ranked shortlist per role. Sub-scores visible. Reasoning attached.
Eighty applicants overnight becomes a list you can read top to bottom before your first coffee, with the five worth calling at the top and the reason each one is there.
Ranking in Alert Hire is one ordered shortlist per role. The CV grade and the answers from the screening conversation combine into a single score for each candidate, with sub-scores and the reasoning visible on every row. Every applicant stays on the list. A low rank is a reading order, not a rejection.
The shortlist
What you open in the morning
Every applicant on the role, ordered by score. The dashed line is your screening threshold: everyone above it was sent the screening questions the day they applied, and their answers are already in.
Click a name for the sub-scores, the CV justification and the conversation summary. Click a sub-score for the sentence in the CV that produced it.
How the score is built
Two inputs, one number, every step visible
The CV grade
Each criterion you wrote gets a sub-score from the CV, weighted the way you set it. That is the score every applicant has within minutes of applying. How grading works.
The conversation
Answers to your screening questions adjust the score where they add evidence a CV cannot hold: availability, right to work, a licence, a hard requirement confirmed or ruled out. How conversations work.
The ranking
Candidates are ordered by overall score. Ties are broken by the must-have sub-scores, never by anything that was stripped before grading. Your threshold draws the line; you can move it any time.
What ranking is not
A ranking is a reading order, not a decision
Nobody is rejected by being ranked low. The list is every applicant, the score is a starting point, and the reasoning is there so you can overrule it. When you disagree with a grade, you change the criterion and the whole role regrades.
Every score, every regrade and every write-back is logged with a timestamp and who or what caused it, so a decision can be explained to a client, a candidate or a regulator months later.
Always you. Alert Hire never sends an outcome unless you switch on a write-back that does it.
Off by default. Turn it on per role once you have read a week of results.
Pin a candidate above the line, or start a conversation with anyone below it, in one click. The override is logged next to the original score.
Open the candidate's history: the criteria as they were on the day, the sub-scores, the justification and the conversation summary.
Questions about the shortlist
Bullhorn’s GRID 2026 report found APAC agencies using AI anywhere in the process were three to five times more likely to have grown revenue than lost it. A shortlist is where that shows up. The general list of questions is on the home page. Anything else: admin@alertai.com.au.
The CV grade against your weighted criteria, adjusted by what the candidate said in the screening conversation. Both parts stay visible on the row, so you can see a strong CV that interviewed poorly and the other way round. Click any sub-score for the sentence that produced it.
They stay on the list, graded, in order, with their reasoning attached. Nobody is declined and nobody is hidden. The threshold only decides who was sent the screening questions automatically, and you can start a conversation with anyone below it.
Yes. The ranking is a reading order, not a decision, so you can call anyone on it in any order. Candidates who raised something that needs a person are flagged Needs you rather than ranked away.
Open the candidate. The criteria as they stood, the sub-scores, the justification quoting the CV and the conversation summary are all kept together, so the answer to "why was this person fourth" is a record rather than a recollection.
Start the day with the five worth calling
Bring a role you are screening now. We will show you what its shortlist would have looked like this morning.