Weight skills to match your priorities
Tell the ranking what actually matters for this role — 1–5 sliders per skill, live re-scoring, and a formula you can explain to anyone.
Ranking in A1 Jobs is deterministic and recruiter-controlled: your skill weights are the input, and every number on screen can be traced back to them.
Step 1 — Rank the pool
On the requisition page, the ranked-candidates card has one button: Rank candidates the first time, then Re-rank after that. Scoring is fast and deterministic — no per-candidate AI wait — and every run is AEDT-logged for the audit trail.
Step 2 — Set your priorities
Open Configure to reach the Skill priorities card. Each parsed skill has a slider: "Weight each skill 1–5 — the ranking updates as you let go." 5 means critical, 1 means nice-to-have; skills the JD marks as required carry a req tag. Release a slider and the change is saved instantly — candidates are re-scored by weighted fit in place, no page reload, with the open evidence panel left intact.
How the score is computed
The fit panel discloses the formula on every candidate:
- Skills (weighted) — the priority weights of matched skills divided by the weights of all the role's skills. Driven directly by your sliders: matching one 5/5 skill moves a candidate five times more than matching a 1/5 skill. With equal weights it reduces to plain coverage.
- Experience — a labelled heuristic (v1): it checks for experience signals (years, seniority terms) in both the CV and the JD — present in both scores 80, one side 50, neither 30. The panel says so and tells you to weight your judgment accordingly.
- Education — also a labelled heuristic: degree and university keywords — both sides 90, one side 60, neither 50. It is explicitly not a judgment of education quality; 60 usually means the JD doesn't state a degree requirement.
The overall number is 50% skills + 30% experience + 20% education — the panel prints exactly that, and every dimension has an ⓘ tooltip explaining how it was computed.
Reading the result
Tiers, ratios, citations and gaps are covered in Read the ranking and fit evidence. The short version: the score sorts, the band decides, and a weak dimension is a prompt to probe — not an automatic no.