AI Skills Matching helps you quickly assess how well applicants meet your role requirements based on the skills you've defined in the job posting. This feature is designed to improve hiring speed and consistency by automatically analyzing applicant profiles and comparing them to the hard skills listed in each position.
When enabled, AI Skills Matching assigns a skill match score (e.g., 10/10) to each applicant, indicating how many of the required skills they meet. This allows recruiters and hiring managers to instantly spot top-fit candidates and streamline their screening process. Also they can draw focus on the skills missing in the application.
Enable AI Skills Matching
✨ Part of the AI Assistant suite - can be activated by user role and customized by company admins.
Navigate to Settings > Company settings > AI Assistant.
Activate the Skills Matching.
Choose whether to activate for:
Yourself only
Admins
Recruiters
Hiring Managers
Readers
Custom roles
You can optionally enter text to teach your AI Assistant about your organization’s hiring needs.
Click Save.
Define Skills in the Job Posting
AI Skills Matching is powered by the hard skills you define for a position.
Go to your edit position > Requirements tab.
Under Hard skills, click Add to enter relevant abilities, expertise, tools, or domain knowledge.
These hard skills will serve as the base for AI Skills Matching.
You can also add soft skills and other details, but mainly hard skills are used for skill matching.
Review Applicant Matches
Once active, AI Skills Matching will automatically analyze each new application.
Go to the Applications listing view of a position.
You’ll see a Skill Match column with a score like
10/10.Hover over the score to view which required skills were matched.
Applicants with higher match scores are more aligned with the job’s skills - making them easier to prioritize for further review.
ℹ️ Note: Always validate the applications yourself too, and don't only rely on AI Skill Matching in you screening.
Common Issues
Why is the Skill Match score missing?
Make sure hard skills have been added to the job requirements before the application came in.
Only hard skills are used - soft skills and other details rarely are included in the skill match logic.
Can I customize which skills the AI checks?
The system matches against hard skills added under job requirements.
To adjust what the AI checks, edit the hard skills in the job posting.
Why do different applicants have the same match score?
If multiple applicants meet all the listed hard skills, they will all show a full match.
Why some applicants in the same job have different amount skills for skills matching?
System processes the Skills matching the first time the applicant applies for the job. If at that time there are only two skills set for the job, the system only shows matches for those two skills.
If some of the skills have been added at a later date, the older applications are not processes automatically again. But newer applications will use the new skillset.
If you want to update the skills for an applicant you can click Edit (the pen icon) on applicant view and Save. That way the skills we be processed again.
Additional Tips
Use the Recommend button in the Requirements tab for AI-generated skill suggestions tailored to the role.
Combine AI Skills Matching with AI Insights for a more complete evaluation, including attributes and profile signals.