A name, a photo, or a team member’s rating can shape an opinion before anyone reads a CV. Unbiased hiring in Tellent Recruitee gives you two tools to help prevent that: Anonymous candidates hides personal details, and Fair evaluations hides your team’s ratings until each person adds their own. You choose which stages of which jobs they apply to.
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You set up each feature in two steps, and it only takes effect once you’ve done both. First, turn the feature on for your company. This makes it available in the stage editor, but nothing is hidden yet. Then, enable it on individual pipeline stages. The feature applies only to the stages you select in the jobs you choose.
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This lets you run anonymous screening on your sales roles, for example, while leaving your engineering pipeline unchanged.
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Go to Settings > Workflow > Candidate evaluation.
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Next to Anonymous candidates or Fair evaluations, click Configure. If you’ve set up the feature before, the button says Edit instead. Select Display the feature and click Save.
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Each feature shows its current status under its name, for example Turned off or Enabled in 3 out of 12 jobs, so you can see how widely it’s used at a glance.
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Once a feature is turned on, you decide which stages use it. You can do this in a pipeline template, so every job built from it uses the same setup, or in a single job’s pipeline.
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Go to Settings > Templates > Pipelines and open the template you want to change. Click the edit icon on the stage you want to update. In the Unbiased hiring section, select Anonymous candidates, Fair evaluations, or both, then click Save.
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Stages that use either feature show a crossed-out eye icon with the feature names underneath, so you can see your setup without opening each stage.
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Open the job and click Edit, then go to Workflow. In the Pipeline section, click the edit icon on the stage you want to update and click Edit stage to confirm. Select the unbiased hiring options you want and click Save. Then click Publish changes to apply them.
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Fair evaluations hides other team members’ ratings and written feedback on a candidate until you add your own. Everyone forms an independent opinion first, which helps reduce groupthink.
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On a candidate in a Fair evaluations stage, existing feedback is replaced with a message like 2 hidden evaluations by the Fair evaluations feature. It explains that other team members’ answers are hidden to avoid bias until you evaluate the candidate. When you add your evaluation, you can see the other team members’ evaluations right away.
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Evaluations stop being hidden when any of these happens:

Sometimes you need the full picture before you can form your own view, for example when a hiring manager joins a debrief late.
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In the Summary section of the candidate’s Evaluation tab, click Reveal for me under Average evaluation score. The Reveal evaluations? dialog warns that once you read other evaluations, you may be less objective. Click Reveal for me to confirm. The evaluations open in a Hidden evaluations window.
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Anonymous candidates hides identifying information from a candidate’s profile so reviewers can focus on skills and experience. Tellent Recruitee also creates anonymized versions of the CV and cover letter, masking details inside the documents.
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While a candidate is in a stage with Anonymous candidates enabled, your team can’t see their:

A banner at the top of the profile says the candidate is anonymous and that their photo, nationality, and gender are hidden from all team members to reduce bias.
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If you need to do any of these, reveal the candidate for yourself or move them to a stage without Anonymous candidates.
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Team members with the Reveal anonymous candidates permission can reveal a candidate’s details when they need to, for example to arrange an interview.
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Click Reveal for me in the banner at the top of the candidate’s profile. The Your team members will know dialog explains that your team will see that you revealed this candidate, both in the top right of the profile and in the audit logs. Click Reveal for me to confirm.
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A Candidate revealed for you confirmation appears, and you can click Hide for me in the banner to mask the profile again. A counter such as 2 team members revealed appears in the banner. Point to it to see exactly who has seen the hidden details.
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A candidate stops being anonymous automatically when they:

A retail chain wants its store manager shortlist judged on experience rather than names and photos.
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An admin goes to Settings > Workflow > Candidate evaluation and sets both features to Display the feature. In the Retail hiring pipeline template, they enable Anonymous candidates on the Screening stage and Fair evaluations on both Screening and First interview.
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Applicants land in Screening with masked names, photos, and anonymized CVs. Three reviewers score them independently, and none can see the others’ ratings until they’ve added their own.
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Shortlisted candidates move to First interview. Because that stage doesn’t use Anonymous candidates, their details become visible and the recruiter can email them to book a slot. Evaluations stay hidden there until each interviewer adds their own.

No. They’re set up separately, so you can turn on only the one you need and apply them to different stages.
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No. The information is hidden from view, not removed. It reappears as soon as the candidate leaves the stage with Anonymous candidates enabled.
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No. Anonymization only changes what your team sees inside Tellent Recruitee.
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You need the Manage company permission, and your company needs the Optimize plan. You’ll find the settings in Settings > Workflow > Candidate evaluation.
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Anyone whose role includes the Reveal anonymous candidates or Reveal hidden evaluations permission. You can set these per role in Settings > General > Hiring roles, under Candidates.
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Revealing a candidate is visible to your team. It’s shown on the profile and recorded in the audit logs. Revealing evaluations only changes your own view.