Hire | Skill-based evaluation (Middle East)

Hiring decisions are stronger when candidates are evaluated against the same skills required to succeed in the role. With Skill-Based Evaluation, jobs in the Middle East region can now be mapped to defined skill sets and used consistently across candidate scorecards and employee evaluations.

This update in Keka Hire ensures interviewers assess candidates using structured competencies that reflect actual job expectations. It improves fairness, brings consistency to interviews, and aligns hiring decisions with long-term performance goals.

What’s new?

• Define required skills during job or requisition creation
• Publish required skills on the career portal
• Automatically generate interview scorecards from defined skills
• Use the same competencies across hiring and evaluation workflows

This structured approach ensures alignment from application to final interview.

Skills displayed on the career portal

Once saved:

• The required skills are published on the company’s career page.
• Applicants can view the expected competencies before applying.

This sets transparent expectations and encourages relevant applications.

Auto-generated scorecards from skills

For jobs where required skills are defined:

• Keka automatically creates an interview scorecard.
• Each listed skill becomes an evaluation parameter.
• Interviewers rate candidates against predefined criteria.

This ensures structured, objective, and comparable evaluations across interviewers.

Benefits

Clear expectations for applicants

Consistent and fair evaluations

Faster setup

Long-term alignment
 

Skills used during hiring reflect the same competencies expected in the role, supporting better performance outcomes post-hire. 

Skill-Based Evaluation helps organizations in the Middle East region create a more structured, transparent, and competency-driven hiring process.

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