Reviewing Applications

Guidelines for scanning the application

You’ll need to review the applications of each applicant to see whether they are the right fit for the role. If you work for a large company, you may have a recruitment team that does the initial application screening for you. This is primarily an exercise in sense checking rather than a deep analysis of a candidate. Scanning an application, you should be looking for:

• Whether they have the right amount of experience that you’re looking for in that particular role

• Whether they have used the technology that you are working with. Or if they haven’t, whether they’ve used ...