# Candidate.screened

URL: /business/events/Candidate.screened · Id: `event:Candidate.screened`

> Emitted each time a Candidate is screened.

[Candidate.screen](/business/nouns/candidate/screen) emits `Candidate.screened` when it completes on a [Candidate](/business/nouns/candidate).

| Property | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Emitted by | [Candidate.screen](/business/nouns/candidate/screen) |
| Noun | [Candidate](/business/nouns/candidate) |
| Wakes | [Run a tryout](/workflows/processes/hiring/run-tryout) |

### Payload
Each delivery is an [Event](/business/nouns/event) record. `data` holds what [Candidate.screen](/business/nouns/candidate/screen) returns.

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `name` | `string` | Yes | `Candidate.screened`. |
| `at` | `datetime` | Yes | When it happened. |
| `seq` | `integer` | No | Its position in the namespace, one more than the Event before; any seq is a cursor into the history. |
| `data` | `json` | Yes | The Thing as the Action left it. |
| `data.candidate` | [Candidate](/business/nouns/candidate) | Yes | The Candidate, with graded Evidence attached. |
| `data.candidate.opening` | [Opening](/business/nouns/opening) | Yes | The Opening the Person is considered for. |
| `data.candidate.person` | [Person](/business/nouns/person) | Yes | The Person, whose record crosses Startups only with Consent. |
| `data.candidate.source` | `string` | Yes | One of `pool`, `prospecting`, `listing`, or `referral`. |
| `data.candidate.state` | `string` | Yes | One of `screening`, `tryout`, `proposed`, `hired`, or `declined`. |
| `data.candidate.delta` | `json` | No | The per-Verb difference between the Candidate and the incumbent Agent in the tryout. |

### Example
```json
{
  "$id": "https://api.sb/ledgerlark.com/events/event_1",
  "$type": "Event",
  "name": "Candidate.screened",
  "at": "2026-10-22T12:00:00Z",
  "data": {
    "candidate": {
      "$id": "https://api.sb/ledgerlark.com/candidates/candidate_1",
      "$type": "Candidate",
      "opening": "opening_1",
      "person": "person_1",
      "source": "pool",
      "state": "screening",
      "delta": {}
    }
  },
  "seq": 1
}
```