Reviewing & Advancing Candidates, Part 3

Here's what actually opening a real submitted application looks like, walked through against a real one: Marcus Reyes, who applied to Evergreen's Worship Pastor search.

The review screen itself

Four real actions sit right at the top of Marcus's page, not buried in a menu. Advance to video screen costs $6, a genuine Stripe charge, and the moment you pay, a video invite email goes out to the candidate immediately, not on some delay. Decline ends the process for this candidate. Email candidate opens a direct line without leaving the page. Share generates a 7-day link, useful for looping in someone else on your team without handing them a full login.

Below the actions sits an Offer section, empty for Marcus since he hasn't gotten that far yet. This is where a real offer letter eventually gets generated, once someone on your list is actually ready for one.

Stated Positions

This is one worth seeing, not just reading about: it renders as two cards side by side, one labeled with your organization's name, one with the candidate's, so both stances sit at a glance without scrolling back and forth to compare them.

Evergreen's card, under View of Women in Ministry, reads: "Women serve in nearly every ministry capacity except the senior pastor role." Marcus's card, right next to it, reads: "Not answered." NarroHire doesn't score the gap or call it a mismatch either way, an honest "Not answered" is exactly that, not a guess filled in on his behalf. A candidate who does write out a real answer, something like "I believe women can serve in any pastoral role, including senior pastor," would show up in that same card, right next to your church's own stated position, agreement or disagreement laid out plainly and left entirely to your own conversation.

Resume & the candidate package

Marcus didn't attach one, so his page says so plainly: "No resume submitted." No placeholder pretending otherwise. One click downloads his full candidate package as a PDF, worth having on hand the moment your team wants to talk through him offline instead of scrolling a screen together.

Qualifier Responses

Marcus cleared all four: an active, committed follower of Jesus who agrees with Evergreen's statement of faith, real experience leading a volunteer worship team rather than just performing, six to ten years of that experience, and guitar with vocals as his primary strength. NarroHire shows this as a simple aggregate, "4 of 4 qualifiers met," not a score. Had one of those come back as a "no" you'd flagged as disqualifying back when you built the search, it would show up highlighted right there instead of buried inside a passing count, exactly where your team actually needs to see it.

Written Responses

Every question appears in full, followed by the complete answer and a real word count underneath it, nothing trimmed or summarized on your end. Under "Describe your faith journey and the theological convictions that guide your ministry," Marcus's full answer runs 102 words, starting with how he came to faith in college and closing with his conviction that "a worship leader's job is pastoral before it's musical." You're reading exactly what he wrote, word count included, not a paraphrase of it.

Team Notes

A private space for your own team, never shared with the candidate. This is where you'd write the thing you'd otherwise only say out loud in a hallway before a decision, not something you'd want on record for Marcus to eventually see.

AI Insights

Generate this on demand and you get three real sections. Themes surfaces patterns across the whole application. For Marcus, that meant an opening line reading: "The candidate consistently prioritizes the spiritual and relational health of volunteers over musical output or production polish," a pattern that's genuinely harder to catch skimming nine separate answers yourself than it sounds. Notable Points calls out specific things worth your attention, each one linked back to the exact answer it came from. Points to Clarify flags real gaps or open questions your team might want to ask about directly rather than assume.

Treat all three sections as a head start for your team's conversation, not a replacement for reading the actual answers when a real decision is on the table. That's true of any AI-generated summary anywhere in NarroHire, not just here.