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Seven checks before a screener can credit your answer.
A screener reads your answers with the poster open and a list of criteria beside it, and can only credit what is on the page. Most applicants are screened out not because their experience is thin but because the answer never names the criterion, never gives dates a screener can count, and never gives a number. Run your draft through these seven checks tonight. The example lines are from our sample (an invented PM-03 poster and applicant, labelled as such).
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1. The criterion is named in the first sentence, in the poster’s own words.
“Experience coordinating projects or initiatives involving multiple stakeholders: met.” Not: “I have a lot of experience coordinating projects.” A screener works down a list of criteria with the poster open; the first version tells them which box they are reading for, and that you read the poster.
2. Where and when, with both ends of the dates.
“From March 2024 to February 2026, as Program Assistant at the Riverside Settlement Centre (Winnipeg).” Not: “In my current role.” Posters often ask for experience within a period, or a minimum length of experience, and a screener cannot count months that are not written down.
3. First person: I planned, I chaired, I resolved.
“I set the project plan, chaired the planning meetings (11 in 2025) and tracked 46 action items to completion.” Not: “our team made sure projects moved forward.” The criterion is about your experience; a sentence about the team gives the screener nothing they can credit to you.
4. At least one number: people, dollars, files, days.
“four partner organizations, two provincial funders and 38 employers” and “on budget ($18,400), 612 attendees, 71 recorded job offers.” Not: “many different teams and partners.” Numbers are what turns a claim into evidence; they are also what a screener remembers when two answers look alike.
5. The result, and who can confirm it.
“My director confirmed the result in my 2025 performance review.” Not: “I have received positive feedback.” Screening answers can be checked against references later; saying who can confirm the figure is what makes it safe to write.
6. Nothing the criterion asks for is left for the screener to infer.
If the criterion says “by telephone, email or in person”, the answer names all three channels. If it says “multiple stakeholders”, the answer counts them. A screener is not allowed to assume you meant it; if it is not on the page, it was not demonstrated.
7. Essential criteria first; assets written even when optional.
Essential criteria decide whether you are screened in at all, so they get the most words and the best examples. Asset criteria are often what sorts the pool later; an asset left blank because it said “optional” is a point given away for nothing.
The two fixes that do most of the work
Open with the criterion, then “met”. Paste the criterion from the poster as your first sentence and end it with a colon and “met”. Everything after it has one job: to prove that sentence.
Replace every “regularly” and “many” with a number. How many a day, how many a year, how many partners, how many dollars. Your résumé and your old performance reviews usually have them; if a figure really does not exist, give the dates and the scale instead of inventing one.
Questions
What applicants ask us
Why do I keep getting screened out at the screening questions?
Usually because the answer does not say, in the poster’s words, which criterion it meets, does not give dates a screener can count, and has no numbers. Screeners read against a list; an answer that leaves them to infer anything is an answer they cannot credit.
How long should a GC Jobs screening answer be?
Long enough to cover every element of the criterion with where, when, what you did and the result: usually 120 to 220 words. Many posters set a limit in the question; stay inside it. Longer is not better if the extra words are adjectives.
Should I use the STAR method for screening questions?
It helps as a checklist, but a screening answer is not a behavioural interview story. Lead with the criterion and the evidence (dates, employer, numbers), not with a dramatic situation. Keep the result and who can confirm it.
Can I answer an asset criterion I only partly meet?
Yes, honestly: say which part you meet and give the evidence for it. Do not claim the whole. Leaving an asset blank because you only partly meet it gives away points that may decide who gets to the next stage.
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