Scorecards turn unstructured interview feedback into structured, comparable data. Every scorecard captures a final decision, optional skill ratings (1–5 stars), interviewer instructions, and any custom questions you want answered — so reviewing candidates side-by-side after the fact is fast and consistent.

Where to configure scorecards

There are two places to set up a scorecard. Pick the one that matches what you want to change:

Default Job Template — applies the scorecard to every new job created from the template. Found in Workspace Settings → Job Settings → Default Job Template → Interview Plan. (Admin only)
A specific job's Interview Plan — only affects that one job. Open the job, click Edit, and go to the Interview Plan tab.

Heads up: Editing the Default Job Template doesn't update jobs that already exist — only jobs created after the change pick up the new scorecard.

Add a scorecard to an interview stage

Open the Interview Plan — either on the Default Job Template (Workspace Settings → Job Settings) or on a specific job's edit page.
Find the interview stage you want a scorecard for and click Configure Scorecard.
Fill in the four sections below. All are optional — the final decision (Strong Yes / Yes / No / Strong No) is always included automatically.

Interview Instructions

Free-text guidance for the interviewer — what to focus on, what to ask, what to skip. The interviewer sees this at the top of their scorecard when they sit down to submit feedback.

Skills

Type a category name into Add New Category (e.g., "Technical," "Communication") and click Add Category.
Inside the category, type each skill you want rated and click Add. Pick from the suggested list or create a new one.

Interviewers rate each skill from 1 to 5 stars. Ratings roll up into the candidate's scorecard summary on the profile.

Questions

Click Add Category for the question group.
Inside the category, add the questions you want the interviewer to answer.

Use this for behavioral prompts, candidate-specific follow-ups, or anything you don't want left to memory.

Requires Scheduling

Turn this on if the interview is a live event (call, video meeting) that needs to be booked. When a candidate enters this stage, Recruiterflow automatically creates a scheduling task on the candidate's profile so the call gets on the calendar.

Save

Click Save. The scorecard is attached to that interview stage. Repeat for any other stages that need one.

Example

A recruiter is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer. She opens the job's Interview Plan and clicks Configure Scorecard on the "Technical Interview" stage. She adds two skill categories — "System Design" (with subskills "Scalability," "Trade-offs," "Failure modes") and "Coding" ("Correctness," "Code quality"). Under Questions, she adds one category, "Red flags," with a single question: "Anything you'd want the next interviewer to dig into?" She enables Requires Scheduling and saves. Now every candidate who enters that stage triggers a scheduling task, and the technical interviewer gets the same structured prompt every time.

Things to know

The default decision options on every scorecard are Strong Yes / Yes / No / Strong No. These are always present and aren't editable per stage.
Skills are rated 1–5 stars. There's no half-star or numeric-score option.
Editing the Default Job Template only affects jobs created after the change. Existing jobs keep their old scorecards.
A per-job scorecard edit only affects that one job. To push a change to every future job, update the Default Job Template instead.
Scorecards are configured per interview stage on the pipeline. Different stages can have completely different scorecards.
Only Admins can change the Default Job Template. Recruiters can usually configure scorecards on jobs they own.