A screening gives you two things: what the candidate said, and which must-knows came back flagged. This guide shows where to find them and how to read them.
All screening work sits on Today, in the Decide group:
| Lane | Who is in it |
|---|---|
| Qualified | People who answered the first questions and are waiting for your call. The Screening answered chip marks the ones who also answered the screening questions. |
| Screened | People you introduced yourself to, once their answers are in. |
The same answers are also on the candidate's own page, in the Screening card on the Jobs & screening tab. Older links to the screening queue now open Today.
The lane has three views:
| View | What is in it |
|---|---|
| To review | Finished screenings waiting for your decision |
| Ready to submit | People you shortlisted, plus talent-pool people waiting for a role |
| Declined | People you declined. They stay here, so you can change your mind. |
For each person you can Shortlist or Decline. Both apply at once, and the toast offers an undo. Submit to clients takes you straight to a submission. In the Declined view, Override: shortlist reverses your decision. For someone you declined at the first questions, the button is Override: invite to screening.
Nothing lands in Declined on its own. Every row there is a recruiter's decision.
Each must-know shows the question, the candidate's own words, and one of three states:
| State | What it means |
|---|---|
| Met | Answered, and the answer matches what you hoped for |
| Worth checking | The answer did not match, or there was nothing to check it against. Read it yourself. |
| Not answered | Left blank |
A row with flags carries a chip with the count, for example "1 flag". A flag is a fact about one answer. It is not a decision about the person, and it never declines anyone. You read it and decide.
The candidate is never told an answer was flagged.
Beside the answers you see what the candidate said about their salary expectation, notice period, right to work, working setup and where they are open to work. Anything they did not say is marked as missing, never filled with a guess. These facts also fill in Candidate Facts on their page, and Generate uses them when it writes a submission email.
Questionnaires belong to a desk or a campaign, not to a job. So the normal result has no fit score, and the row carries a Talent pool chip. This is the designed outcome, not a failed screening: read the answers and decide.
A fit score only appears when the questions are tied to a specific job. It shows as a number out of 100 with a one-line reason. Every screening question counts equally, and the basics (location, right to work, notice, salary and the like) never move it. It is a record for you to read. It never shortlists, declines or moves anyone by itself.
If the AI step fails, the row says scoring unavailable, read them yourself, and the candidate's page shows a Scoring failed badge. PlacementFlow never makes up a result. The answers are complete and readable, so you can read them and decide as normal, or click Retry AI scoring under that row on the candidate's Screening card to run it again.
A call you recorded with Record the call is shown as your record, labelled as recruiter-entered, never as the candidate's own words. Nothing in it is processed by AI. What the candidate told you about notice, salary, working setup and right to work fills in their Candidate Facts, the same as answers given through the link, and never over a value you entered yourself. The decision you chose when you saved it is the outcome.