Purpose

This article explains the layout and functionality of the candidate profile in Talent Acquisition (TA).

Audience

This article is intended for recruiters and TA users who view the applicant/candidate profile.

Candidate profile layout

The candidate profile features a flexible two-column layout designed to maximize screen real estate.

• Collapsible Side Panel: Users can toggle the side panel using the caret icon (expand/collapse) located between the main content area and the right-side panel.
• Expanded View: Collapsing the side panel allows the main content area (such as the Resume) to expand, providing a wider viewing area without horizontal scrolling.
• Consistent View: The layout and expand/collapse state persist whether viewing the profile inline or in full-page mode.

Highlights and matched data

The Highlights section is now located in the main panel (below the header). To know more, read Understand Skills-related insights.

Requisition match and explainability

Located immediately below the Profile Header, this widget provides context specific to the job the candidate is being viewed for. By default, it is collapsed to show only the Match Score and Current Stage to reduce visual clutter.

Expanding this widget reveals Match Score explanatio - which provides qualitative, AI-driven insights into why a candidate received their score.

• Skills and Experience relevance: The AI analyzes the candidate against the job description and calibration to provide natural language summaries divided into two categories:
  • Skills Relevance: Evaluates functional capabilities, technical strengths, and behavioral attributes.
  • Experience Relevance: Evaluates career trajectory, seniority, industry background, and titles.
• Visual indicators:
  • Green Up Arrow: Candidate clearly meets the requirement.
  • Red Down Arrow: Candidate doesn't meet the requirement.
  • Grey/Neutral Arrow: Evidence is partial or missing.
• Candidate progress: A visual timeline at the bottom of the widget tracks the candidate's movement through the hiring stages.

Profile header

The rationalized profile header appears at the top of the main panel and includes:

• Candidate full name.
• Latest title and organization (or school).
• Location (including timezone).
• Experience: Total years of experience (and relevant years of experience when viewed in the context of a job).
• Status: Last activity timestamp, source, and sourced by information.
• Requisition-independent Highlights: General highlights that apply to the candidate regardless of the job (for example, Diversity, Top School, Similar Industry) are now located directly within the Top Card. Click See more to expand this section to view all general tags.

Header Actions: Following options are located at the top right of the header:

1. Download profile: Export profile data.
2. Edit profile: Modify top card information.

Navigation tabs

To reduce scrolling, navigation is consolidated into five main tab groups. Hovering or clicking a tab reveals specific sub-tabs.

Profile

Contains the core candidate documentation:

• Overview: Displays the summary, work experience, education, and skills.
• Resume: Displays the candidate's resume.
  Note: Users can collapse the side panel to view the resume in a wider format for better readability,.
• LinkedIn: Displays the live LinkedIn profile widget.
• Files: A dedicated tab for managing attached documents and files.

Pipeline activity

Consolidates all hiring process actions:

• Applications: Recruiters can review stage history, files, and Q&A data without leaving the candidate profile.
  • Recruiters can run Advance Stage or Reject actions, or edit application details directly within this panel.
  • An improved position picker streamlines candidate association with advanced filtering (priority, category) and visual indicators for active applications.
  • Download candidate-signed agreements by selecting a specific application and then clicking Files.
• Assessments: View assessment results.
• Feedback: View interview and reminder feedback.
• Meetings: View scheduling details.
• Offers: Manage offer details.
• Activities: detailed chronological log.

Note: Position names in the Activities list are clickable hyperlinks that open the position in a new tab.

Messages

Centralizes all communication channels:

• All: Aggregated view of all messages.
• Sub-tabs: Filter specifically by Email, SMS, WhatsApp, or InMail.

Notes and Tags

• Notes: View or add notes associated with the profile.
• Tags: specific tags associated with the candidate.

Engagement

• Events: Details of recruiting events the candidate is added to.
• Campaigns: Details of email or marketing campaigns targeting the candidate.

Skills Acquired

The Skills Acquired section (typically found in the Overview or side panel depending on configuration) lists skills validated across different experiences and their corresponding proficiencies.

Similar Candidates

The Similar Candidates section displays a list of talent pool candidates with similar experience, education, or skills.