Abstract: Systems and methods to asynchronously vet, appraise, grade, rank and certify technical candidates for hiring are described. The technical candidate certification system administers and evaluates a set of specialized and customized evaluations of a technical candidate to generate a technical candidate ranking value, the ranking value typically provided relative to other technical candidates. The set of evaluations are customized to the job requirements of the client employer and to the profile of the candidate employee, and may be specialized to the hiring of software developer candidate employees. In one aspect, the technical candidate ranking system administers a software coding test and a technical interview, and provides an assessment and measure of a candidate's language proficiency. The client employer is provided with a ranking value of the recommended employee candidates.