Hiring Criterion

The main information about hiring criteria is stored in the Hiring Criterion (hrm_hiring_criterion) table. Create hiring criteria and use them in the Applicant Submission task to assess applicants' levels of knowledge and skills required for a vacant position.

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Roles required:

• Create, read – hrm_agent, hrm_supervisor.
• Update – hrm_supervisor if they created the record, hrm_agent. The way a hiring criterion was created affects the ability to update its fields:
  • if the hiring criterion was created via Registers, the following fields are available for updating:
    • Criterion type
    • Skill
    • Question wording
    • Active
    ;
  • if the hiring criterion was created via Job Post or Applicant Submission form, then no fields are available for updating. Also, a criterion becomes unavailable for updating after assessing an applicant's skill or saving an applicant's answer in the Hiring Criteria for Applicant Submissions table.
• Delete – hrm_admin.

Create a hiring criterion

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Create a hiring criterion using one of the following ways.

Via Registers

1. In the agent interface, navigate to Human Resource Management → Registers → Hiring criteria.
2. Click New in the top-left corner of the form and fill in the required fields.
3. Click Save or Save and exit to apply the changes.

A hiring criterion created via Register gets automatically included in all newly created job posts.

Via a Job Post or Applicant Submission form

1. In the agent interface, navigate to Human Resource Management → Recruitment → Job Posts or Applicant Submissions.
2. Click Add criterion in the Hiring Criteria related list.
3. Fill in all the required fields in the modal window that opens and click Save.

A hiring criterion created on an Applicant Submission form is related only to this submission.

A hiring criterion created on a Job post form is related to this job post and newly created applicant submissions.

Hiring Criteria form fields

Field	Mandatory	Description
Criterion type	Y	Select a criterion type. Available options: --None-- – default value Skill Question
Object	Y	Select an object for the job posts of which you are creating a hiring criterion. Available options: --None-- – default value Position Job title Job category All If you select All, the current criterion will be included in all new job posts in the system.
Active	No	Select the checkbox to automatically include the criterion in newly created job posts of the selected object.
Skill	Y	Specify the skill that serves as a hiring criterion. The field is available if the Criterion type is Skill.
Question wording	Y	Specify the wording of the question whose correct answer serves as the hiring criterion. The field is available of the Criterion type is Question.
Positions	Y	Specify the positions for the job posts of which you are creating the hiring criterion. The field is available if the Object is Position.
Job titles	Y	Specify the Job titles for the job posts of which you are creating the hiring criterion. The field is available if the Object is Job title.
Job categories	Y	Specify the Job categories for the job posts of which you are creating the hiring criterion. The field is available if the Object is Job category.

Related lists

• Criteria for Job Posts – the list contains job posts that include the current hiring criterion.
• Criteria for Submissions – the list contains applicant submissions that include the current hiring criterion.

Delete a hiring criterion

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Delete a hiring criterion using one of the following ways.

Via a criteria list

1. In the agent interface, navigate to Human Resource Management → Registers → Hiring criteria.
2. Select checkboxes next to the required records and click Delete in the top-right corner of the form.
3. Click Ok in the modal window that opens to confirm the action.

Via a criterion form

1. In the agent interface, navigate to Human Resource Management → Registers → Hiring criteria and open the required record.
2. Open the burger menu and click Delete.
3. Click Ok in the modal window that opens to confirm the action.

Via the Hiring Criteria related list

1. In the agent interface, navigate to Human Resource Management → Recruitment → Job Posts or Applicant Submissions.
2. In the related lists section, open the Hiring Criteria tab.
3. Select checkboxes next to the required records and click Delete in the top-right corner of the tab.
4. Click Ok in the modal window that opens to confirm the action.

note

Deleting hiring criteria via the Hiring Criteria related list on the Job Post or Applicant Submission form does not just remove its relationship with the current record, but actually deletes the hiring criteria records from the system if they were created via a Job Post or Applicant Submission form.

Hiring criteria for job posts

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The Hiring Criteria for Job Post (hrm_m2m_hiring_criterion_job_post) table contains a list of records with the relationships between the Hiring Criterion (hrm_hiring_criterion) and Job Posts(hrm_job_post) table records.

Hiring criteria for applicant submissions

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The Hiring Criteria for Applicant Submission (hrm_m2m_hiring_criterion_applicant_submission) table contains a list of records with the relationships between the Hiring Criterion (hrm_hiring_criterion) and Applicant Submission(hrm_applicant_submission) table records as well as assessment of applicants' skills and answers to interview questions.

Hiring criteria for applicant submissions form fields

Field	Mandatory	Description
Hiring criteria	Y	Fills in automatically.
Applicant submission	Y	Fills in automatically.
Hiring criterion.Skill	N	Fills in automatically. The field is displayed for hiring criteria of type Skill.
Skill level	N	Select the applicant's skill level. Available options: --None-- – default value Satisfactory Good Excellent The field is displayed for hiring criteria of type Skill.
Hiring criterion.Question wording	N	Fills in automatically. The field is displayed for hiring criteria of type Question.
Applicant comment	N	Specify the applicant's answer to the interview question. The field is displayed for hiring criteria of type Question.

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We recommend assessing skills and saving the candidate's answers to interview questions as part of the applicant submission review process in the Hiring Criteria related list using inline editing.