Step and Rule Weighting

Both rules and assessment steps can have ‘weighting’ applied to them to provide additional scoring emphasis. For example, the role you are recruiting for may require a high level of customer service competency. You are able to weight any customer service components of the assessment process so that candidates that score well in this area will achieve a higher overall score.

For the system to generate a score it must have a rule weighting and the step that the score is on must have a step weighting. If no specific weighting is required just insert 100 to the score rule weighting and then insert 100 to the step weighting.

Rule Weighting

To add rule weighting:

1. On the Manage Assessment Process page, locate the step that you want to apply the rule weighting to.
   
   
   
   
   
2. Add rule weighting to the rules.

These weightings are a percentage of the score.

In the above example, the weighting applied to the rules is 100. This means if the candidate is highly suitable they will get the whole score of 5.
The rule weightings can all be 100 or they must add up to 100.

Step Weighting

Additionally, weightings can be applied to assessment steps using Step Weighting. For example, if the Shortlisting step of the assessment process carries more weight than say, the Interview step, then this can be weighted accordingly. The total sum of the step weightings must equal 100.

To add step weighting:

1. Add weightings to the assessment steps by entering the weightings.
   
   

   The example below shows that the steps are weighted equally.

   Shortlisting Step

   
   Interview Step
   
   

   
   
   
2. Once the rule weighting and step weighting has been entered click Save at the top of the page.
   
   

Note: Scores will either round up or round down to the closer number.

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