Calibration text sources
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Auto-calibration, match scoring, match score explanations, and a position's search embedding all read the same single text body: the position's job description. Where that field is sparse and the substantive role content lives in the job posting instead, everything downstream has little to work from.
This release adds a per-tenant calibration text sources setting that blends a position's job postings on top of its job description. Choose the internal posting, the external posting, or both. Sentences that appear in both the description and the posting are dropped once, so nothing is double-counted, and the whole blend is assembled in a single language, taken from the position's locale, then its recorded job-description language, and finally detected from the title and description together. Confidential positions are excluded. If a posting can't be read, the position falls back to its job description and calibration continues rather than failing.
WHY IT MATTERS
A thin job description stops holding a position back. The candidates Eightfold surfaces for it, and the scores attached to them, are derived from the role as it was actually written up rather than from a field that happens to be near-empty—so the ranking a recruiter opens is worth acting on.
Nobody has to re-author content that already exists. Where the real role detail sits in the posting, recruiters previously had to copy it into the job description just to make matching behavior. That duplicate authoring goes away.
Trying it carries no cleanup. Reads revert the moment the setting is removed, with nothing backfilled and no reprocessing to undo, so a tenant can be evaluated and reverted inside one recalibration cycle.
FEATURE DETAILS
Who can access | Recruiters, Sourcers, Hiring Managers, Customer Admins |
Feature type | Default On |
Requirements | Positions must carry ATS job postings—the setting has nothing to blend without them. Confidential positions are excluded by design. Selecting only the job description does nothing: a tenant configured that way behaves exactly as an unconfigured one. |
GETTING STARTED
Admins: No self-serve configuration. Contact Eightfold to have calibration text sources turned off for your tenant (if required). For more info, read Auto-Calibration for positions.
End users: Positions must carry ATS job postings—the setting has nothing to blend without them. Confidential positions are excluded by design. Selecting only the job description does nothing: a tenant configured that way behaves exactly as an unconfigured one.
