Job Score (JQS)
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Job Score (JQS)

Deterministic job-description quality grading — pick one of your real open jobs or paste a draft, same fixed rubric either way.

2 min read · Updated July 2026 · Expertini Editorial

A job description's quality shapes everything downstream of it — who applies, how well CMS dimensions extract, and how many candidates a screener has to wade through to find the real ones. Job Score (JQS) grades a description against a fixed, published rubric, the same one every time, so "is this JD good" stops being a matter of opinion.

Run it against a live open job to catch a weak posting before it costs you two weeks of the wrong applicants, or paste a draft before you publish anything at all.

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01What it does

Scores a job description against a fixed set of quality dimensions — clarity of must-have requirements, specificity versus generic boilerplate, structure, and other measurable properties of the text itself — and returns a deterministic 0–100 grade with dimension-level detail on what pulled the score down.

02Who it's for

Hiring managers and recruiters drafting a new posting who want a second opinion before it goes live, and teams auditing why an already-published role is producing a weak or mismatched applicant pool — a low JQS score is often the first thing worth checking.

03What makes this different

It's deterministic, not a generative AI opinion — the same job description scores the same every time, and the rubric itself is published rather than a black box, so a low score comes with a specific, checkable reason attached to it.

04Why it matters

A vague or boilerplate job description produces vague CMS dimensions downstream, because CMS derives its scoring dimensions from the job description's own language — a weak JD doesn't just attract the wrong applicants, it also makes every candidate score against it less precise.

05Pricing and what's included

Included from the Starter plan upward, with a 14-day free trial available to try it against your own open jobs.

06Support

The Help Center documents the full scoring rubric; support@expertini.com is available for anything the docs don't answer.

Engineering notes

Platform architecture & operations

A1Architecture: where it sits in the platform

Job Score (JQS) is a first-class module of the Sourcing & Job Ads suite inside the authenticated Expertini ATS workspace. The platform is deliberately server-rendered: every view is prepared by the application server and shipped as complete HTML, with no client-side framework, no third-party CDN scripts, and no build pipeline between the data and the page. What renders is what the server computed — the property that makes the interface auditable.

All persistence runs on a single search-native document store; every query carries the organisation's identifier as a mandatory filter at the lowest query layer. Tenant isolation is therefore structural — a property of how every request is composed — rather than a policy that relies on application code remembering to check.

Availability is governed by the platform's tool registry: this tool is registered from the Starter plan, and access is enforced server-side by the registry gate on every request — never by hiding a button. Plans also carry a monthly distinct-tool quota (3 / 5 / 15 / 30 / 45 across Trial→Business, unlimited on Enterprise), counted at the same chokepoint. The pricing page states both honestly: what is available, and how much of it the month includes.

A2Data model and dependency map

In production the tool reads and writes job requisitions (ats_jobs). Documents are plain, explicitly-mapped fields — mappings are provisioned ahead of first write, so term filters and aggregations behave deterministically instead of depending on inferred types.

Every distinct open is journalled to the tool-activity store — and that journal, not a parallel analytics system, is what the Reports section aggregates. The usage numbers you see are the numbers the platform actually recorded.

Anything that leaves the request path — notification fan-out, webhook delivery, activity journalling, mail — runs in fire-and-forget background threads. A slow external endpoint can never make the interface hang, and a failed side effect is logged rather than silently retried into inconsistency.

A3Operational considerations

Organisation-level settings, destructive actions, and connections are gated to owner and admin roles; recruiters operate the tool on the records they can see. Role changes apply on the next request — enforcement is at the route, not in the menu.

Failures are surfaced, not swallowed: server-side validation returns the exact field and reason, vendor errors are quoted verbatim where integrations are involved, and every write either confirms or reports. Exports regenerate on request rather than being cached — a report you download reflects the store at the moment you asked, not last night's snapshot.

Everything written is yours to take: CSV exports and the Data Export app cover the same stores the product itself reads. The exit is as open as the entrance — by design, not concession.

A4Interaction contract

The interface follows the platform's search-and-select convention: any field that names a real record — a candidate, client, or job — is a type-to-search picker over live data, never a free-typed string, which is what keeps activity trails and deduplication trustworthy. Static choices are filter-as-you-type combos rather than native dropdowns, and state transitions give explicit feedback: server confirmations surface as toasts, validation errors name the exact field, and nothing is shown as done that the server has not confirmed.

The wireframe and flow below document the structural contract of the surface — what panels exist, what order the states occur in, and what happens at every edge — rather than pixels. The layout is composed with native CSS grid and flexbox and adapts from wide desktop to a single column without separate mobile views.

Dependency map

Reads / writesats_jobs
Access gateStarter plan and above — enforced server-side by the tool registry
Monthly quotadistinct tools per month: Trial 3 / Starter 5 / Growth 15 … unlimited on Enterprise
Usage journalats_tool_activity (per open)
Tenancyevery query filtered by organisation id at the query layer
Side effectsbackground threads — never on the request path

Interface blueprint

Structural schematic of the surface — panels, hierarchy, and interaction affordances. A contract, not a screenshot.
Input panel
type-to-search record picker
run — server-side
Result panel
copyexportjournalled
Fig. 1 — Job Score (JQS): structural interface schematic. Panels and states are the contract; data shown is placeholder.

Interaction flow — states, validations, feedback

Every state below is enforced server-side; the interface reports it, it doesn't decide it.
Open toolregistry gate: plan + monthly quota
Pick recordstype-to-search over live org data
Server computeorg-scoped reads; deterministic logic
Resultrendered server-side; export on demand
Journalactivity store → Reports
Plan below minimum → lock page shows the exact tier ladder, never a dead endMonthly quota reached → upgrade prompt with the count that triggered itValidation failure → the specific field and reason, inlineEmpty search → honest empty state; no fabricated matches
Fig. 2 — interaction flow: navy = states, gold = server-enforced gates, green = confirmed outcomes; tags list the edge cases and their feedback.

Frequently asked questions

Does a low JQS score mean the job won't get applicants?
Not directly — it flags specific, fixable quality issues in the text itself (vagueness, missing structure, generic boilerplate), which correlate with weaker downstream matching but aren't a guarantee either way.
Can I score a draft before publishing?
Yes — paste any draft text directly, no live job required.
Is this the same as CMS scoring?
No — CMS scores a candidate against a job. Job Score grades the job description itself, independent of any applicant.
What plan includes Job Score?
Basic and upward, with a 14-day free trial available.

At a glance

  • Included from the Starter plan upward
  • Deterministic, published rubric — not a generative AI opinion
  • Score a live open job or paste an unpublished draft
  • Dimension-level detail on what pulled the score down
  • A weak JD produces weaker CMS dimensions downstream
  • 14-day free trial available

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