Review applicants

On Posted jobs, click the View applicants button at the end of the job's row, or open the job page and click View applicants at the top (the button shows the count). How to find your jobs is in Manage your jobs.

The page is headed Applicants for, followed by the job title, with the job reference under it as a link back to the job. The list has the columns Applicant, Experience, Match, Applied and Status. Match is the BSO AI score; it is empty for an application the ranking leaves out, such as a withdrawn or rejected one.

A Pending row has an Accept and a Reject button at its end. Every row has More actions with View (the full application), View profile and Save resource. Clicking the row opens the application.

Above the list, the card BSO AI shortlist ranks the applicants by fit with the job, best first. Each row shows the candidate, their Score, and how well their Skills, Experience, Rate and Availability fit, as percentages. Over the table, BSO AI sums up the ranking in a few lines with a Confidence of high, medium or low.

The score is built from five parts: how much the job's skills list and the person's skills overlap, their years of experience against what the job asks for, their hourly rate against the pay you offer, whether they are open to work, and how many of their applications to other jobs on BSO were accepted.

Hold the pointer over a score chip, in the shortlist or in the Match column, to see the five parts as percentages: Skills, Experience, Rate, Availability and History.

Click Suggest candidates at the top of the shortlist card. Under Suggested candidates, BSO AI lists job seekers who are open to work, share at least one skill with the job and have not applied to it, each with a score and an Invite button; it shows at most five, and only people who score reasonably well. A job with no skills list gets no suggestions, and neither the Post a job form nor Write with BSO AI collects skills today, so a job you post yourself gets none for now; the job in the screenshot carries a skills list. If nobody fits, the card says No matching candidates found.

Click Invite. The button changes to Invited and cannot be clicked again. The person gets a notification in the bell of their dashboard, headed You've been invited to apply for and the job title, and a push notification on any phone where they allowed BSO notifications, and the job appears with the invitation wording under their BSO AI Insights; no email is sent. The invitation shows them the job, not your contact details, and they apply like anyone else (see Track your applications).

You can invite up to twenty people to one job and up to fifty people a day across your jobs.

On a Pending row, click the Accept button (the tick). The box Accept this application? names the person and says they will be told the application was accepted. Click Accept to confirm, or Cancel.

The page confirms with Application accepted, the row's status becomes Accepted and its Accept and Reject buttons disappear. The candidate receives an email saying they were shortlisted and that the team will reach out shortly with the interview details, and, when they allowed BSO notifications on a phone or browser, an Application shortlisted entry in their bell. The person is now listed under Hired resources: see Hired resources and ratings.

Click a row, or View in its menu, to open the application. The header shows the person's name, their headline, their status and whether they are Open to work or Hired, then their email, phone and the Application reference. Because they applied to your job, their contact details are shown here and on their profile.

Below are their Screening answers, the Cover letter (with Download), About, Experience, Education and Skills, and on the right the Resume, a Timeline (Applied, Reviewed, then Accepted or Rejected), Availability and rate, and Ratings and reviews. A pending application has Accept and Reject at the top; More actions holds Save resource, Download resume when a resume was sent, and View profile.

Click Reject at the top of the application, or the Reject button (the cross) on its row. The box Reject this application? names the person and says they will be told the application was not successful. Click Reject to confirm.

The page confirms with Application rejected. The status chip reads Rejected, the Timeline shows Reviewed and Rejected with the date and time, and the Accept and Reject buttons are gone. The candidate is told by email, and in their bell when they allowed BSO notifications on a device. A decision cannot be undone on the page.

In a row's More actions menu, click Save resource (it is also under More actions on the application page). The person is added to your Saved resources list, whatever the state of their application.

The page confirms with Resource saved. Open Saved resources, the Saved tab next to Hired, to see everyone you saved; see Find a resource for that list and for searching job seekers by skill.