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Each search carries criteria, read from your brief. Each criterion has a level, which says what it does to the list. There’s no weighting and no score. The level is enough to sort the profiles.

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The three levels

  • Must-have: rules out a profile that contradicts it. Must-haves alone decide a profile’s group.
  • Important: weighs on the order of the list.
  • Bonus: breaks ties between close profiles.
The groups that follow from these levels are described in Read the results.

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The starting level

Hirify gives each criterion a level based on your brief:
  • Must-have: the required skills, the languages, contract, availability, day rate, or salary conditions set as a filter, and the location when the job requires being there in person, even part of the time: on site, hybrid, or with regular travel.
  • Important: the same conditions when the brief states them as a preference, the location of a fully remote job, and experience.
  • Bonus: nice-to-have skills and industries.
Before you start the search, Relax into a criterion turns a filter into a preference. The criterion then starts at Important. See Start a search.

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Change a criterion’s level

1

Find the criterion

At the top of the results, the Criteria bar shows one chip per criterion, with its level in short (Must, Key, or Bonus) and the required value. Criteria that don’t have their own column in the list are behind +N criteria.
2

Open the chip

The Level of “…” window offers the three levels, with what each one does to the list.
3

Read the preview

Under If you change the level, each other level shows the main move it would cause, such as “3 profiles: Match → To check”, or no group change.
4

Choose the level

The list regroups right away.

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What changing a level does and doesn’t do

Changing a level regroups the profiles without evaluating them again. A profile’s verdict on a criterion doesn’t depend on that criterion’s level. Only its effect on the group and on the order changes. No search is taken from your hourly budget. The level is saved with the search. You get it back when you reopen the search, and so does anyone who opens it. If saving fails, a notification warns you. A profile can therefore move from Match to To check, or from Ruled out to Match, just because a level changed. That’s expected. The group reflects the fit with the job as you’ve set it up, not the person’s worth.

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Good to know

  • A level doesn’t bring back a profile ruled out by a filter. A filter rules out the profiles that contradict it before evaluation. Lowering the criterion’s level afterward doesn’t bring them back. To keep them, relax the filter into a criterion before you start. If your filters ruled out every profile found, Run again without filters runs the search again without them.
  • Missing information never rules a profile out. A must-have marked Nothing on file puts the profile in To check, not in Ruled out.
  • To change the criteria themselves, start a new search. You set levels on the results. The list of criteria comes from the brief.

Read the results

The verdicts, the groups, and a profile’s file.

Start a search

Write the brief, attach a job, and relax a filter.