Evaluation criteria

Tell Clarvo what matters most for the role, and it evaluates and surfaces candidates against those criteria.

Evaluation criteria are the specific things that matter for your role — the skills, experience, and qualifications you’d weigh up yourself when reviewing a candidate. You write them in plain language, and Clarvo evaluates every candidate against them.

Adding criteria

Before your results appear, Clarvo asks you to Add Your Evaluation Criteria. Add each requirement as a short, plain-language statement — for example “Has led a team” or “Experience scaling a B2B SaaS product.”

1. Write what matters

   Add criteria for the skills, experience levels, and qualifications that count most for this role.

2. Order by priority

   Drag criteria to rank them — the ones at the top carry the most weight.

3. Confirm to continue

   Results are shown once you’ve confirmed your criteria, so the candidates you see are already considered against them.

What it does

Clarvo assesses each candidate against every criterion you set, and shows the outcome on the candidate’s Evaluation tab — criterion by criterion — so you can see why someone is a fit, not just that they are. See Tracking candidates.

How it affects your results

Criteria don’t work like hard filters — they don’t remove anyone. Instead they shape which candidates surface and in what order:

Surfacing

Candidates who best match your criteria rise to the top of the list, so the most relevant people are the first you see.

Signal, not a cut-off

Each criterion acts as a signal that steers the search toward the qualities you care about — a candidate who misses one still appears, just lower down.

Because criteria are ranked, the higher-priority ones influence surfacing more than the lower ones — so leading with what truly matters has the biggest effect on your results.

Keep each criterion focused on a single idea and phrase it the way you’d describe an ideal candidate. Specific, well-ordered criteria surface better-matched people.