PUBLIC SAFETY HIRING
A rigorous process shouldn’t cost you your best candidates
A bad public safety hire isn’t an HR problem. It’s a risk-management one. Cangrade screens for success fast and transparently, so candidates stay in the process instead of accepting another offer.
90% less recruiter admin time
Native NEOGOV integration
Patented bias removal
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WHY CANGRADE FOR PUBLIC SAFETY
Built for how public safety hiring works
From slow pipelines to academy attrition, here’s what we make easier.
TIME-TO-HIRE
Keep candidates moving through every stage of a long process.
Public safety hiring can stretch out across months, with qualified candidates accepting other offers before it’s done. Cangrade’s candidate screening software and automation remove the coordination lag between stages, and automated messaging keeps candidates engaged the whole way through. One government agency cut recruiter admin time by 90%.
FAIR, ACCURATE SCREENING
A diverse pool doesn’t mean a weaker standard. It means a better one.
Diversity in public safety hiring is a requirement, not just a best practice. Cangrade’s patented bias-removal process (US Patent No. 11,429,859) delivers bias-free assessments that are fair, transparent, audit-ready, and 10x more accurate at predicting success than traditional hiring methods.
SKILLS-BASED SCREENING
See the red flags before candidates wear the badge.
A bad hire in public safety can mean a use-of-force incident, a lawsuit, or a decertification, not just a performance review. Cangrade builds your screening process around the skills that predict performance and reduce risk in your specific role, with a consistent, transparent scoring system that gives your team a paper trail when they need one.
EMPLOYER REPUTATION
In a small professional community, word travels fast.
In tight-knit professional circles, ghosted or dismissively treated applicants tell other applicants about it, shrinking your talent pool before it even forms. Cangrade’s public safety hiring software, automation, self scheduling, and automated messaging keeps every candidate moving and informed with consistent, timely updates regardless of recruiter bandwidth.
ACADEMY ATTRITION
Screen for who finishes the academy, not just who starts it.
Resilience and commitment under pressure are measurable before day one of the academy, not just discovered partway through it. Cangrade’s pre-hire assessments and Retention Forecast predict which candidates have the traits to finish training and stay past probation, so resources aren’t wasted on recruits who were never going to make it.
END-TO-END CANDIDATE SCREENING
One platform for every stage of the hire
Cangrade works across screening, assessment, interviews, and retention, all inside the tools you already use.
Resume Screen
Rank every application by job fit the moment it arrives. No manual review, no resume piles.
Talent Assessment
Deploy custom hard and soft skills assessments instantly. Bias-free and fully explainable.
Structured Interview
Deliver consistent interviews that probe the skills most critical to success without the planning.
Interview Scheduling
Eliminate bottlenecks and coordination for a faster, more engaging hiring process with customizable candidate self-scheduling.
Video Interviews
Screen candidates at scale with async and live video interviewing with transparent scoring.
Reference Checking
Reveal performance patterns and retention red flags fast with automated reference checks.
Candidate Matching
Make the most of your talent pool. One assessment matches all of your candidates to any open role.
Retention Forecast
Measure what drives retention at your agency and predict which candidates will stay and perform.
NATIVE INTEGRATION
Already using NEOGOV? You’re most of the way there.
Screening results, assessment scores, and candidate data flow directly into your NEOGOV workflow, so your team keeps working exactly as they do today, just with better data behind every decision.
Not using NEOGOV? We still integrate.
CUSTOMER STORIES
How public safety teams are using Cangrade
NEW YORK CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT
FDNY
Built an auditable, bias-free selection process.
US GOVERNMENT AGENCY
90%
Less recruiter admin time.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What public safety hiring teams ask us most
Does Cangrade replace psych evaluations or background checks?
No. Cangrade screens and assesses the behavioral competencies that predict performance and risk earlier in the process, so your existing background checks, polygraphs, and psych evaluations focus on the candidates most likely to make it through, instead of running the full process on everyone.
How does Cangrade support finding top talent that meets our community representation goals?
Every assessment question is tested for adverse impact across all EEOC-protected demographic groups under our patented bias-removal process before it’s used. That means you can widen your applicant pool while keeping the evaluation criteria exactly as rigorous.
Does Cangrade integrate with NEOGOV?
Yes, natively. Cangrade’s screening and assessment results flow directly into the NEOGOV workflow your department already runs on.
Wherever you are in the process, there’s a next step.
JUST LOOKING
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See what faster, more consistent screening is worth to your department.
RESEARCHING
See the FDNY story
Read how FDNY built a bias-free selection process with Cangrade.
READY TO TALK
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