§ WORKFLOW / 02 · Cohort & batch evaluation

Compare the class on one frame.

When you're hiring a class — six recruits, twelve, the whole next academy intake — comparison only works if every candidate ran the same instrument under the same conditions. ReadyFirst handles a hiring round as a single cohort so the comparison rests on shared data, not on what each interviewer happens to recall.

// THE COHORT TRAP

Most agencies run a hiring class as a sequence of one-off evaluations, then try to reconcile the data at the end. By the time the panel sits down, candidates have been measured on slightly different instruments in slightly different conditions — and the comparison stops being like-for-like.

§ How the round runs One cohort, one window, one comparison frame

The hiring round as a single, scoped object.

  1. 01
    HR partner

    Open a hiring round

    A hiring round is a named cohort with its own start window, deadline, and applicant list. Every candidate added to the round runs the same battery and lands on the same comparison frame — no mixing rounds in the same view.

  2. 02
    HR partner

    Bulk-invite the cohort

    Upload the applicant list or paste from your ATS export. Every candidate in the round gets a personalized link in the same window so the assessment context stays consistent across the cohort.

  3. 03
    Cohort

    Candidates complete the assessment

    Each candidate takes the assessment in their own browser, on their own time within the round window. Practice rounds and server-side scoring are identical for every candidate in the cohort.

  4. 04
    Hiring panel

    Open the cohort view

    Every candidate in the round appears on a single ranked screen with the same metrics and the same score scale. The hiring panel deliberates from one frame, not from twenty PDFs assembled by hand.

  5. 05
    HR + civil service

    Close the round on the record

    Closing a round freezes its data: applicant list, scores, who saw what, decisions made. The next round is a separate cohort with its own record. Year-over-year comparisons are still possible, but no round's data quietly drifts into another's.

§ Next

See a hiring round
from open to close.

30-minute call. We walk through a sample cohort end-to-end so you can see how the round opens, how candidates move through it, and what the panel sees on the day deliberation starts.