The candidates list

The Candidates page shows everyone who applied to one job, best fit first. Pick a candidate on the left and their scorecard opens on the right, with the decisions pinned at the top.

This is the By job view. The switch at the top of the list also offers the Pool: everyone who has applied to your workspace, across all jobs, one row per person. See The candidate Pool.

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   Step 1: Job, sort and search

   Above them, By job and Pool switch the view. The first menu picks the job. The second sorts the list by ATS score (the default), Must-have coverage or Name (A-Z). The button beside them, Show requirement dots, switches the Must and Pref dots on or off: off, each card is shorter and more of the list fits on screen. Your device remembers the choice. Search matches a candidate's name, headline or company.

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   Step 2: Verdict filters

   All, Strong, Caution and Low narrow the list to one AI verdict: Strong match, Proceed with caution or Low match. Each one shows how many candidates it holds.

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   Step 3: A candidate

   The card shows the name, then the candidate's current company, years of experience and location. The ATS score sits on the right, with a coloured dot for the AI's verdict: green for Strong match, amber for Proceed with caution, red for Low match. The verdict's name is on the candidate's scoreboard, where it is explained. Must and Pref count the must-have and preferred requirements the CV evidences. A filled dot is matched; a hollow one is partial, missing or not assessed yet. Hover the dots to see each requirement by name.

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   Step 4: Pipeline stage

   The small label is the candidate's stage in your pipeline. It is set by your team, and it is kept apart from the AI's verdict on purpose. When the list is narrow, with ari open on a smaller screen for example, the label is left out of the card while the requirement dots are on; the candidate's header still shows the stage.

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   Step 5: Still being screened

   Until the score is ready, the row shows where screening is instead: Queued, Reading CV, Parsing or Scoring. Failed and No CV mean screening stopped. Knockout means a knockout answer flagged the application for review and it waits for a person to decide.

Under the list, a footer counts the candidates shown and reminds you of the keys that move between them.

The page remembers your job

The Candidates page opens on the job you last picked, in each workspace you belong to. Switch to Pool and back, open Candidates from the sidebar or reload the page, and the same job is still selected. The job is also part of the page address, so a bookmark or a link you send opens on it.

A link that names a job, from a job page, the review queue or a notification, opens that job and makes it the one remembered. So does a link to one candidate, from the pipeline board or an interview for example: it opens on that candidate's job. If a job has been deleted or you no longer have access to it, the page opens on the job you last picked, or else on the newest open job, as it does the first time. The choice is kept in this browser, for you only, and is forgotten when you sign out. With two tabs open on different jobs, the one you picked last is remembered.

How the list is ranked

The list opens sorted by ATS score, highest first, so the top of the page is your shortlist rather than whoever applied last. Candidates who are still being screened sit at the bottom until their score arrives.

A Low match verdict is the AI's recommendation, not a decision. Nobody is rejected until a person says so. See The AI never rejects anyone and, for what the score is made of, Reading the scorecard.

New applications appear on their own

You don't need to reload the page. While it is open, it checks for new applications about every ten seconds. When one arrives you see a short message, such as "New application from Lena Fischer", and the row appears in the list. It then moves through the screening steps and takes its place in the ranking once it is scored.

The check pauses while the tab is in the background and runs again as soon as you come back. You only ever see applications for the companies you have access to.

The candidate's header

The top of the candidate's page says who they are and holds what you can do with them, in two groups: the tools for looking closer, and the decisions. Under the name, a badge shows where the application stands when it needs attention, such as Needs review, and a Requirements changed since scoring badge appears if the job's requirements were edited after this candidate was scored. See Requirements, versions and stale scores.

The AI's verdict is not repeated in the header. It is shown once, on the scoreboard, next to the score it comes from. See Reading the scorecard.

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   Step 1: Tools

   View CV opens the CV beside the scorecard. Compare puts this candidate next to others for the same job. More, the three dots, holds Re-run AI, which scores the application again, and, if your role allows them, Remove from pool and Delete candidate data, which act on the person across every job. See The candidate Pool.

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   Step 2: Stage

   Select the stage to move the candidate along your pipeline. The same move is possible on the board. See The pipeline board.

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   Step 3: Decisions

   Reject and Schedule interview, and Make offer once an offer can be made (see Offer letters). A rejected candidate shows Reconsider here instead.

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   Step 4: Sections

   One segment per section of the page: Your workspace first, then Evaluation, Requirements, Experience, Skills, Evidence, Offer and Conversation, as far as the candidate has them. Select one to glide there; the highlight follows you as you scroll. Once the header has scrolled away, the bar also shows the name, the ATS score, Reject and Schedule interview, so the next decision is always in reach.

Reject a candidate

1. Open the candidate and select Reject.
2. Check the name in the dialog, and what the rejection also closes (an open offer, an identity check, upcoming interviews), then select Reject candidate.

The candidate moves to the Rejected stage and receives your rejection email. The stage menu does not offer Rejected for this reason: rejecting always goes through Reject, so it is always recorded as a person's decision and the candidate always hears back.

Change your mind

On a rejected candidate, Reconsider puts them back in review and moves them off the Rejected stage, to the job's screening stage if it has one. The candidate is not emailed.

An application a knockout answer rejected automatically before November 2026 shows a red banner with the question and the answer instead, and Restore in place of Reconsider. See Screening questions and knockouts.

Candidates the AI recommends rejecting show a yellow banner with Keep in process and Confirm rejection. Applications a knockout answer flagged show a yellow banner naming the answer, with Score anyway and Reject. See The review queue.

Read the CV beside the scorecard

Select View CV and the CV opens in a pane next to the scorecard, so you can read the evidence and the source side by side. Drag the divider between them to give either side more room; the width you choose is remembered on your device.

Acme Corp / Candidates / Wei Ling Tan / CV

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HighlightsOriginal

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The highlighted line is the evidence you opened.

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Wei Ling Tan, Singapore
Senior Software Engineer, Grab (2019 to now)
Owned the payments ledger service in Go, handling 50k requests per second at peak.
Tuned PostgreSQL query plans and partitioning for a 4 TB transactions table.
Led the move from a monolith to event-driven services with Kafka.
Software Engineer, Shopee (2016 to 2019)
Built order-routing APIs in Go and Python.

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   Step 1: Highlights and Original

   Highlights shows the text the AI read from the CV. For a PDF, Original shows the file itself, exactly as the candidate sent it. A Word document has no Original view; download it instead.

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   Step 2: Download

   The CV button downloads the original file. See Viewing and downloading CVs.

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   Step 3: The evidence you opened

   In the scorecard's evidence, select a quote taken from the CV and the pane opens on that line, highlighted. If the quote can't be found word for word, the pane says so.

Opening the CV is recorded in the workspace's activity log, just like a download, because it shows a person's data.

Move through candidates with the keyboard

With the Candidates page open, press J or ↓ for the next candidate and K or ↑ for the previous one. The keys follow the list as you have filtered and sorted it, so you can work through a shortlist without the mouse.

The keys do nothing while you are typing, for example in a note or the search box, or while a menu or dialog is open.

Who can do what

Everyone in the workspace can open the list and read scorecards. Owners, Admins and Recruiters can reject and reconsider. Owners, Admins, Recruiters and Hiring Managers can change stages, re-run screening and schedule interviews. Viewers can read but not change anything. See Roles and permissions.