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The placeability score
One figure from 0 to 10 for how placeable a candidate is right now, and which way it is moving.
Some candidates are easy to place and some are not, and you usually only find out after weeks of trying. Every candidate therefore carries a single figure from 0 to 10 that answers one question: how placeable is this person, right now, on this market?
Three things, weighted
It is built from how good the best matches actually are, from how many strong matches exist at all, and from the salary level of those matches. Fit counts by far the most: a candidate with five excellent matches is more placeable than one with fifty mediocre ones, and the figure says so.
It moves, and you can see it move
The figure is recomputed after every run and shown next to the previous day’s value, up or down. A candidate whose score climbs is one the market is warming to; one that keeps sliding is a conversation about expectations, and it is better to have it in week one than in month three.
What does a score of zero mean?
That nothing strong has been found yet, not that the person cannot be placed. The figure is built from the best verdicts, from how many strong matches there are and from what those pay, and a candidate sitting just below the shortlist line can still read zero. That is a statement about what this market is offering this week, not a judgement on the candidate, and it moves the moment one strong match lands.
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