Using the diversity dashboard
Purpose
This user guide gives an overview of the Talent Acquisition (TA) Diversity Dashboard and presents the key benefits of using this dashboard. After reading this guide, users should, ideally, know how to operate.
Note: This is not a quicksight dashboard.
Audience
This document is directed toward recruiters, hiring managers, and leaders.
The basics
The TA Diversity Dashboard shows the diversity of candidates interviewed & employees in terms of gender, ethnicity, physical disability, veteran status, and source of hiring.
Users can access and log out of the dashboard by taking the following steps.
Accessing the dashboard
- Open a supported browser, and go to https://app.eightfold.ai.
- Enter the email address and password for your EF account.
- Click Sign In.
- Navigate to Insights > Talent Acquisition > Diversity Dashboard
For first-time users:
For this dashboard to be visible, the user has to be assigned a suitable role with permissions: perm_manage_diversity.
Diversity Analytics
The Diversity Analytics menu includes various views as well as filters that can be used for analyzing the candidate recruitment funnel effectiveness.

Filters and their description
Business Unit
Refers to the field in your ATS which is linked to the ‘Business Unit’ column in Eightfold API
Job Function
Refers to the field in your ATS which is linked to the Job Function column in Eightfold API
Location
This refers to the location to which the Position is associated.
Position
The Position ID (ATS Job ID) or the Job Title can be used as inputs here for the views to filter relevant data searched to analyze the diversity across the recruiting pipeline.
Recruiter
All views under ‘Hiring’ can be filtered based on the recruiters associated with the positions, by entering the email ID of those recruiters.
Interview Stages:
- New Application: These are the unique number of Applications who have applied to the jobs in the selected period of time
- Phone Interviews: Phone Interviews implies the number of candidates whose phone interviews have been completed.
- Onsites: Onsites shows the number of candidates whose onsite interviews have been completed
- Post Onsites: Post onsite shows the number of candidates whose onsite interview stage has been completed.
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Hired: The hired count is the number of applicants marked as Hired and may include contractor conversions, internal transfers, interns, and reneged offers (or offers that were withdrawn).
Cohort based
Cohort Based Method accounts only for candidates who applied within the selected period. It reports accurate conversion rates.
Activity based
Activity Based Method accounts for all candidates with stage changes within the selected period, regardless of when they applied. It may report inaccurate conversion rates.
Seniority level
It shows the level of seniority present in the organization that can be used as a filter to analyze the insights in the diversity dashboard.
Highlights
Highlights include the filters Strong Career growth, top school and similar industry for analyzing the diversity insights.
Dashboard Features
The Dashboard Features with the functions of dashboards present in the Diversity dashboard are discussed below.
Overview-Hires
The Dashboard Features with the functions of dashboards present in the Diversity dashboard are discussed below.

Gender
The Gender dashboard shows the hiring status of applicants based on the gender of the applicants recorded on the Eightfold system. It is termed Gender Composition by Stages.
Gender Conversion by Stages shows the distribution of candidates who were selected eventually after going through the process. The statistics shown in this table are stagewise right from New Applications up to candidates who got hired. It also shows gender-wise insights into candidates who were hired.

shaded cell if seen in this table of information, implies % Advanced of this group is lower than the other groups at 95% statistical significance.
Unshaded cell shows % Advanced of this group is statistically equal to other groups. Unknown groups are not tested for statistical significance.
Ethnicity
Ethnicity dashboard shows insights about candidates in various stages of hiring based on the ethnicities of the candidates.
Race Composition by Stages shows the ethnicities of the candidates compared with the stages of them in the hiring process.
Race Conversion by Stages shows the stats about those candidates who were eventually hired. The stats shown are stagewise right from New Applications up to candidates who got hired.

Disability
Disability statistics show the composition of the disabled candidates in various hiring stages of the hiring. The disability dashboard has the race composition by stages dashboard and race conversion by stages that shows the disabled candidates stats.

U.S. Veteran
U.S. Veteran dashboard shows the diversity of the candidates based on whether the candidate is a U.S. Veteran or not a U.S. Veteran.
Veteran status Conversion by Stages shows the candidates with U.S. Veteran status who were eventually hired through different stages of hiring. The table shows the stats as per the various hiring stages.

U.S. Veteran status is inferred by Eightfold AI based on work experience.
Source
Source dashboard shows the distribution of candidates in various hiring stages based on the Sources through which they applied for the position (for example, LinkedIn, Jobs page on Your Website).

Source type Conversion by Stages shows the candidates hiring conversions through various sources (for example, Eightfold, Glassdoor, internal transfers).
Employees Overview
Employees Overview shows the total employees as per filters applied (business unit, location etc.), female employees out of them and underrepresented employees. It shows distribution of employees by gender and employees based on ethnicity.
