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Viewing and downloading CVs

Open the original CV, and know that every download is recorded.

Who can do this
OwnerAdminRecruiterHiring ManagerViewer
Where to find it
CandidatesCandidate

Every CV your candidates send is kept in private storage, never on a public link. You can read it next to the scorecard or download the original file, and each time someone does, it is recorded.

Acme Corp / Candidates / Wei Ling Tan / CV
ariCV
HighlightsOriginal

The highlighted line is the evidence you opened.

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.
The CV pane beside the scorecard, with the download button at the top right.
  1. Step 1: Read it here

    Highlights shows the text the AI read from the CV. For a PDF, Original shows the file as the candidate sent it.

  2. Step 2: Download

    CV downloads the original file.

  3. Step 3: Evidence

    A quote you opened from the scorecard's evidence is highlighted in the text.

Open or download a CV

  1. Open the candidate on the Candidates page.
  2. Select View CV in the header. The CV opens beside the scorecard.
  3. Read it under Highlights, or switch to Original for a PDF.
  4. To keep a copy, select CV. The file downloads in a new tab.

The CV button only appears when the candidate sent a file. Applications that came in without one say No CV on file.

How CVs are kept safe

CV files sit in private storage that nobody can reach from the internet. When you open or download one, the app checks that you are allowed to see that candidate, then creates a link to the file that expires after a minute for a download, or a few minutes for viewing in the pane. A link that is forwarded or saved stops working soon after.

You can open the CVs of the candidates you can see. If your access is limited to some companies in the workspace, CVs from the others stay out of reach. See Roles and permissions.

Every opening and download is recorded

A CV holds someone's personal data, so the app records who reads it:

  • CV downloaded when someone downloads the original,
  • CV opened when someone opens it in the pane, either the text or the original PDF.

Each entry is stored with the person who did it, the candidate and the time, and nobody can edit or delete it afterwards. That is the record a data-protection review asks for.

You can see these entries on the Dashboard, in Recent activity. They count as housekeeping, so switch on Show everything to show them. See Notes, activity and the audit log.

For more on how candidate data is stored and protected, see How your data is protected.

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