Together with your team, you decide who’s the right hire. Whenever a candidate applies to a job for which you are on the hiring team, you'll receive an in-app or email notification.
This article explains more about reviewing candidates and covers the following steps:
Viewing a candidate's profile
Reviewing the application
In-depth review after an interview
Viewing the average rating of a candidate
Viewing a candidate's application
Via the sidebar on the left, click on a job opening under 'Your jobs' or head to the 'Jobs' page to navigate to the job the candidate applied for.
Click 'Candidates', next to 'Apply form' at the top.
The candidate profile page is where you find all the information about the candidate and includes the following:
A task bar to perform actions
Contact info
A message modal with all candidate communication
The candidate's past and current hiring stage
The candidate's activity log
Portfolio and/or résumé
Their website(s) and social media
Answers to questions you asked in the application form
Ratings and notes you and team members left
Reviewing a candidate's application
When a candidate applies, they are placed in the 'Application' stage which is where you will do your first review of the candidate.
Via the sidebar on the left, click on a job opening under 'Your jobs' or head to the 'Jobs' page to navigate to the job you want to review candidates for.
Click 'Candidates', next to 'Apply form' at the top. When a candidate is in the review stage, the Application review sidebar will automatically open up.
Click 'Add review' in the right-hand sidebar to rate the candidate and leave a comment. To rate the candidate, hover over and select the stars by clicking, or press 1 - 5 on your keyboard.
Once you're done, press 'Submit'. You have now reviewed the candidate's application!
If you want to adjust or delete your rating, you can do so by clicking 'Edit' or 'Delete' under the review you submitted.
If your team has reviewed the candidate and you want to proceed them to the next round, press the green 'Qualified' button to move them to the next hiring stage.
In-depth review after an interview
After the application review, you have moved the candidate to an interview stage where you can elaborately review the candidate per interview stage. These individual hiring pages are where most of the communication with your team members will take place.
Via the sidebar on the left, click on a job opening under 'Your jobs' or head to the 'Jobs' page to navigate to the job where you have just interviewed a candidate for.
Click 'Candidates', next to 'Apply form' at the top.
Click on one of the hiring stages to navigate to the dedicated stage page. Each hiring stage has a dedicated page where you can find the events and reviews per stage. This is where you can review the candidate after you have conducted an interview.
From the hiring stage page, click 'Add review' on the left.
Note down your key take-aways, and decide whether you think the candidate should progress to the next stage.
Click 'Submit' to add your review.
Adding comments and @mentioning team members
Adding comments is possible by clicking the speech bubble icon in the task bar, or by pressing 'c' on your keyboard. This is where your team can share any comments about the candidate, hiring process or any practical information about the candidate. You can notify one of your team members by @mentioning someone, or use the @team tag to send a notification to everyone on the hiring team.
Viewing the average rating of a candidate
The other hiring team members will also review candidates. Switch to the 'List view' to see a quick overview of all candidates sorted by the average rating of your team. Hover over the stars to see the individual rating of each team member.
To read the reviews and comments of other colleagues, follow these steps:
Head over to the candidate profile.
Click on 'Application', under 'Hiring stages'.
Make sure you have reviewed the candidate yourself or have pressed 'Skip' in the Application review sidebar.
That's it! You can now read all the reviews on the right-hand sidebar.
