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Velocity, quality, experience and roles

Time in each stage, how scores compare with outcomes, candidate wait times and a scoreboard per role.

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Four Analytics tabs answer four questions. Velocity: where is the pipeline slow? Quality: is the bar set right, and does the AI's recommendation line up with what happened? Experience: are candidates hearing back, and how fast? Roles: which jobs are working and which have stalled?

All four use the date range, company and job you pick in the filter row at the top of Analytics, except where noted below. See Dashboard and analytics overview.

Velocity: time in each stage

Acme Corp / Analytics / Velocity
Median time to hire
24 days
2 hired in range
Median first response
1.4 days
Slowest stage
Interview
9 days median
Completed stage moves
60
In this range
Time in each stage

Median days from entering a stage to leaving it. Sample size is on every row.

Applied1.1d median · 31 moves · 9 still here
Screening3.5d median · 20 moves · 11 still here
Interview9d median · 6 moves · 8 still here
Offer4d median · 3 moves · 1 still here
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Only completed moves count. Where a stage has 5 or more, the paler band behind the bar shows the middle half of candidates.

How long candidates spend in each stage, in days.. 4 rows, columns: Stage, Completed moves, Still here, 25th pct, Median, 75th pct, 90th pct.
Candidates spend a median of 9 days in Interview, the slowest stage. Each row shows how many moves it is based on.

The figures at the top are Median time to hire, Median first response, the Slowest stage and how many Completed stage moves happened in the range.

Time in each stage shows the median number of days candidates spent in each stage, from entering it to leaving it. Each row says how many completed moves it is based on, and how many candidates are still here. Only completed moves count: someone who has been in Interview for three days so far is not counted yet. Where a stage has five or more completed moves, a paler band behind the bar shows the spread, from the 25th to the 75th percentile. With fewer moves a spread would only describe a handful of people, so it is left out.

Where the funnel leaks is the hiring funnel again: the furthest stage each candidate ever reached, and the share that continued at each step. A low share at one step is where candidates are lost.

Time to hire runs from the application to the moment someone moves the candidate into the Hired stage.

Quality: is the bar set right?

The figures at the top: how many applications were Scored, the Average fit, the share that Clear the bar (a fit score of 70 or more) and Proceed → interview, the share of Strong match candidates who reached Interview or beyond.

The charts:

  • Fit score distribution groups scored candidates into bands: 0–39, 40–54, 55–69, 70–84 and 85–100. The bands from 70 up are the qualified pool. With one job selected, click a band to see those candidates.
  • Where the pool is strong and weak shows the pool's average on each scoring axis, such as required skills, experience and communication, with the weakest highlighted.
  • Recommendation mix shows how many candidates the AI rated Low match, Caution and Strong match.
  • Risk mix shows the spread of risk levels. Everything right of the line (high and critical) deserves a human look.
  • Must-have skill coverage shows, for one job, how much of the pool shows each required skill. See Dashboard and analytics overview.
  • Screening knockouts appears when your screening questions have flagged candidates with a knockout answer. It lists each question with how many answered it, how many it flagged for review and the rate. A question that flags most of your applicants may be filtering harder than you meant. See Screening questions and knockouts.

Recommendation versus outcome

Acme Corp / Analytics / Quality
Recommendation vs outcome

Of the candidates the model called X, how far did they actually get? Each row adds to 100%. This is not an accuracy score: the recommendation itself influences the outcome.

SaidAppliedScreeningInterviewOfferHired
Strong match212%424%847%212%16%
Caution640%640%213%017%
Low match975%325%000
Candidates by recommendation and the furthest stage they reached.. 11 rows, columns: Recommendation, Furthest stage, Candidates, % of row.
Of the candidates rated Strong match, 47% got to Interview and no further so far. Each row adds up to 100%.

This grid sets what the AI recommended against the furthest stage each of those candidates actually reached. Read it a row at a time: "of the candidates the AI called Strong match, how far did they get?"

Experience: are candidates hearing back?

Acme Corp / Analytics / Experience
Median time to first response
1.4 days

39 of 48 applications have had a first recruiter action recorded.

Answered within a day
42%
Still waiting
9
How long the first reply took

Ordered buckets. 'No response yet' is a state, not a slow bucket, so it is marked rather than ramped.

Under 1h4
1–4h7
4–24h9
1–3 days11
3–7 days5
Over 7 days3
No response yet9
Applications by how long the first recruiter action took.. 7 rows, columns: Time to first response, Applications.
The median candidate waits 1.4 days for a first response; 9 applications have had none yet.

The large figure is the Median time to first response. Beside it, the share Answered within a day and how many applications are Still waiting, shown in red when any are.

A first response is the first action your team takes on an application: moving the candidate to another stage, or scheduling an interview. Opening or reading the application does not count.

How long the first reply took sorts applications into buckets from under an hour to over seven days. Applications with no response at all are listed separately as No response yet, rather than as the slowest bucket, because they are still waiting.

Below the figures, Opener answered and the Opener round chart show how candidates responded to the Opener, the AI-drafted first-contact questions. Each round is in exactly one state: Pending, Recorded as sent, Reminded, Answered, Acknowledged, No response or Failed. The labels describe what the product recorded, not what a mail server confirmed was delivered. See Opener: the first contact.

Rejected counts the applications from the range that have been moved to the Rejected stage.

Roles: which jobs need attention?

Acme Corp / Analytics / Roles
Roles with no recent movement

Live requisitions with applicants where nobody has changed stage in 14 days or more.

  • Sales Lead, APAC17 days idle· 9 waiting
Requisition scoreboard

Every requisition in scope. The job filter above does not narrow this table, because comparing roles is the point. Applications are scoped to the selected range; days open is the life of the requisition, and time to hire is measured from application to the hired stage.

Every requisition with its volume, quality, reach and age.
RoleStatusDays openApplicationsQualifiedAvg fitInterviewHiredTime to hireIdle
Senior Backend Engineeropen41 days208667127 days1 day
Product Designeropen34 days145624121 days3 days
Sales Lead, APACopen29 days936120—17 days
Customer Support Specialistclosed60 days515710—22 days
Sales Lead, APAC has had no stage moves for 17 days while 9 candidates wait. Scroll the scoreboard sideways for the remaining columns.

The figures at the top count Live requisitions (open or paused jobs), Applications in range, live jobs with No applicants yet, and Stalled jobs.

Roles with no recent movement lists open and paused jobs that have applicants but where nobody has moved a candidate to another stage for 14 days or more. It only appears when there is at least one.

The Requisition scoreboard puts every job side by side: status, days open, applications, qualified candidates, average fit, how many reached interview, hires, median time to hire, and how long since anything moved (Idle). It is ordered by the number of applications. Click a job's name to open it.

Exporting these figures

Every chart card has a Chart and Table switch and a CSV download, and every chart here can go into a PDF report. The scoreboard and the stalled list have no CSV button of their own; add them to a report instead. See Reports, exports and schedules.

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