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Candidate Qualification Agent

Runs a structured competency assessment on candidates who have already passed screening. Asks about each competency you define, scores the answers against your own guide, and attaches the candidate's own words as evidence for every score. The recommendation from automated candidate pre-qualification systems goes to a recruiter to accept or override — the agent never makes the final call.

Securely claim each candidate so duplicate interviews and crossed records cannot occur.

Securely claim each candidate so duplicate interviews and crossed records cannot occur.

How it works

1. Shares the same "CogniAgent Recruiting Data" workbook as the Candidate Screening Agent, creating it if it does not exist yet. Install either one first — they converge on the same six tabs. 2. Takes one candidate marked for qualification, claims the row so no two runs can pick up the same person, and reads the competencies for that job from the Competencies tab. 3. Emails the candidate a structured set of questions covering each competency, asking for concrete examples rather than opinions. 4. Scores each answer against your guide. Every score must quote the candidate's own words as evidence — a score whose evidence is not actually in what they wrote is rejected and flagged for a human to read instead. 5. Sends the recruiter a summary: the score per competency, the evidence behind it, the gaps, and a recommendation to advance, hold or decline. 6. The recruiter accepts or overrides. Their decision is what gets written and what the candidate is told — the agent's recommendation never reaches the candidate on its own. Runs on its own, or after the Candidate Screening Agent — that one hands over by marking the row, so no extra wiring is needed.

What's included

The key things this template does for you.

Competency definitions and a scoring guide kept in a spreadsheet you control

One structured interview email per candidate

A score per competency with the candidate's own words attached as evidence

Scores whose evidence does not hold up are flagged, not shipped

Recruiter accept-or-override on every recommendation

No inference of personality, honesty or fit from tone, voice or writing style

Installation

What setting this up involves.

1

Connect Google Sheets and the Gmail account the questions should come from.

2

Enter your company name, the recruiter's name and email, and an escalation address.

3

Set your time zone and the data-retention notice candidates should see.

4

Fill in the Competencies tab for at least one job — the competency, what good looks like, and how to score it.

5

Move a candidate to next_action = qualify to run one end to end.

~5 min to launch

Free to start. You will sign in first, then set it up.

Connect 2 tools, fill in a few details, and install it. No coding.

FUNCTION

Human Resources

TAGS

RecruitingHiringInterviewing#recruiting Bundle

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