Custom candidate statuses are a functionality supporting you in ensuring candidate progress accurately reflects real-world hiring activity that may occur outside the platform.
This enables hiring managers or users involved in the recruitment process to update the status at any stage of the kanban. Any status changes are applied immediately and are timestamped, as well as available in your filtering options allowing you to view candidates with a specific status applied to them.
Updating a custom status from the candidate profile:
To update a custom candidate field:
Navigate to your kanban
Open the candidate profile you wish to update
Click on "Other"
Click on "Status update"
Select the status you wan to add to this candidate or create a new one
Click update status
This will now update the status of the candidate and give you the ability to find any candidates with that status when filtering your kanban.
Updating custom candidate statuses in bulk:
You have the ability to update custom candidate statuses in bulk directly from your kanban. To do this:
Navigate tot he kanban of the role you wish to update the candidate statuses
Select all of the candidates you wish to update
At the bottom of your screen click "Other"
Then "Status update"
Once you have selected the status click "Update status"
This will save all of your status updates and apply them to the candidates immediately.
Where can I see all candidate status updates?
When a custom candidate status is updated the changes are applied immediately and are timestamped. This information will be visible within the candidate profile, under the "timeline" tab.
Filtering your kanban for custom candidate statuses:
Custom candidate statuses can be applied like any other filter on your kanban. Simply click on "Filter by" and select the statuses you wish to view.
And just like that you are all set!