See your hiring process
through the people
experiencing it.
Shortlistr turns candidate feedback into real-time Candidate Intelligence, helping you to see how the experience evolves by stage, and by recruiter.
Your ATS tells you how the process is tracking.
Shortlistr tells you how well it's working.
Applications are moving. Stages are advancing. Offers are going out. But are candidates feeling informed? Respected? Considered? The operational data tells you the process is running. It doesn't tell you what the experience is actually like, until it's too late to change it.
of Australian employers had at least one candidate decline a job offer in the past year., Robert Half, 2026
See the experience behind the process.
The Candidate Experience Index turns what candidates say about every stage into a single, independently-measured score, with the dimensions behind it.
"The process was smooth until the final round, then I waited three weeks with no update."
A score tells you where you stand.
The intelligence tells you why.
Drill from the company level into the teams, recruiters and stages where experience is shaped, so insight leads to coaching and recognition, not surveillance.
"The strongest change appears in final-round communication. This may warrant a brief coaching conversation with the panel leads."
Know what deserves attention.
AI Insights identify patterns in candidate feedback and suggest areas worth exploring, without inventing causation.
Candidates reaching the final round are reporting longer gaps with no updates, the clearest single change this period.
Reviewing the handoff between recruiter and panel leads may clarify where the gap is introduced.
12 of 38 final-round reviews mention "no update" or "left in the dark" in the past 90 days.
Final-round communication is 8 points below your peer median for Engineering hires.
Shortlistr surfaces patterns from candidate feedback, it does not imply causation or generate automated recommendations beyond what the evidence supports.
See where candidates stop hearing back, before they become a story you can't change.
Know what good looks like.
A score in isolation tells you where you are. Benchmarking helps you understand what that result means.
Know who represents your brand.
Evaluate recruitment partners on what they say, and what candidates actually experience.
Strong follow-through across final rounds.
Communication dipping at offer stage.
See what candidates see.
Every candidate who experiences your process can leave a review. Together, they build a public, independent record of what it's like to be considered by you, and a reason to keep improving it.
Pay for the intelligence.
Not the score.
The Candidate Experience Index is generated by candidates and calculated the same way for every company. Employers can't edit it, pay to improve it, or opt out of the methodology behind it. You subscribe to the intelligence, not the result.
How the CEI works.
An independent score for the experience your hiring process creates, built from your candidates’ stage-by-stage reviews.
What you get in November.
Every feature in the Shortlistr V1 build is available from launch day. Scores appear on your profile as soon as enough candidate reviews are in.
Join the waitlist- Employer Hub
- Candidate Experience Index
- Stage-by-stage candidate reviews
- Silent Rejection Rate and Risk Score
- Explore Analytics and AI Insights
- Employer profile with right of reply
- Agency partnerships and Agency Marketplace
See your hiring process
the way candidates experience it.
Candidate Experience, Candidate Intelligence and partner performance, in one independent view that works alongside the tools you already run.
We're selecting 2 employers and 2 agencies for a five-week pre-launch program, about an hour a week. Receive Pro-level access for free during the Lab plus 6 months after launch. Now taking applications from employers and agencies.
Your privacy choices
We use essential technology to make Shortlistr work. With your permission, we'd also like to use analytics to understand how people use our pre-launch site and improve the experience.