Overview

A common requirement in executive hiring is to keep the candidates who’re part of the process confidential for multiple reasons - primarily due to PR or media risk.

Eightfold already supports confidential positions, however, candidates of a confidential position can be accessible to anyone who has access to the Talent Network. This can give away that there is an executive hiring happening.

Confidential candidate in Eightfold

Eightfold provides the standard Confidential candidate offering in TA, while giving an additional provision to automatically make applicants of a confidential position as confidential candidates.

• A new user permission perm_manage_confidential_candidates is introduced.

• This permission when added to a role, does two things:

  • Users can view a new icon ‘Mark as Confidential’ in the candidate profile page. Clicking this icon will toggle the candidate between Confidential and non-Confidential states.
    
  • Users can view a new option in the Calibration page of the position - ‘Make applicants Confidential candidates’.
    • By default, this is unchecked
    • When checked, all new applicants to the Position are automatically marked as Confidential candidates. Existing applicants in the position are not impacted and the user needs to manually make them confidential.
    • Nothing changes when the Position is closed/filled. Candidates will have to be manually made Non confidential.
      

• When a candidate is confidential, they can’t be searched in the Talent Network by any user who doesn’t have the confidential candidate permission.

• If a user without the confidential permission already had the link to the profile, it doesn’t render the profile for this user.

• If a candidate is marked as confidential, all duplicate profiles (till date) are also marked as confidential. Same for marking as non confidential.