Understanding the Prescreening Section in the Requisition

The Prescreening section in the requisition may contain disqualification questions, prescreening questions, and competencies used to find the top candidates for a position. The combination of these three elements is referred to as ACE Prescreening because they help identify ACE or top candidates for a position.

• A disqualification question is a single-answer question that contains the minimum requirements for a candidate to be eligible for a job. For example "Are you entitled to work in the United States?" When candidates apply for a job, it’s mandatory to respond to the disqualification questions. Answers to the disqualification questions decide if candidates move forward in the selection process or are automatically disqualified. When you create a requisition, you can't add disqualification questions. It's your administrator who creates and manages disqualification questions and defines the context when the question is used. Disqualification questions are displayed in a requisition if the locations and job fields of the question matches the locations and job fields of the requisition.

• Prescreening questions are used to learn more about a candidate in areas such as their career goal, job preferences, knowledge, and more. For example, you can ask "How good are your Java skills?". If the prescreening question is configured as mandatory, the candidate can't skip it while applying for the job. You can add questions to a requisition and you can create questions specific to a requisition.

• You use competencies to gather proficiency levels and years of experience of a candidate. Competencies are supplied with the system. You can add competencies to a requisition.

Disqualification questions, prescreening questions, and competencies are answered by candidates. The candidates' responses are filtered and presented on the candidates list of the requisition. The Ace Submission icon identifies top candidates, and the amount of requirements and assets that the candidate has achieved with their responses is also displayed. You can then review the candidates list and decide to reset the Required, Asset, and Weight indicators as well as the ACE flag alert to modify the threshold if necessary to obtain a viable pool of top candidates.