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What's a Candidate Profile

The candidate profile, also known as general profile, represents the candidate as a whole or, if you like, the person. It contains generic information about the candidate such as the name, address, date of birth, overall education and work experience. This information holds true across all submissions. If a candidate visits your organization's career section and applies in an unsolicited manner, that results in a candidate general profile that you can look at or find using search.

You can view a candidate's general profile directly in a search result page for example or, if you're viewing a submission, you can toggle between the general profile and submission of the candidate.

When you view a candidate profile, details of the profile are presented in the following tabs and panel:

  • General Profile: Provides information about the candidate such as personal information, work experience, employment preferences.

  • Attachments: Displays all of the file attachments (resume or other) relating to the candidate, whether uploaded by the candidate or by a recruiter. If a file was attached for a specific submission, that information and a link to is included. You can view, preview, edit, download, and delete attachments.

  • Referral: Displays information about the person who referred this candidate, whether an agent, employee, or candidate.

  • History: Displays the history of all the events that occurred concerning the candidate. You can view the history of the general profile only, the general profile and all submissions, or all active submissions. Click the Modify Categories button to select the event categories you want to display. You can also sort events by date and by the person who performed the event.

  • Summary: The Summary panel highlights important details about the candidate such as contact information in the information callout, active submissions, most relevant education, work experience.

You can edit the general profile of a candidate. Click the Edit icon next to a section or the Edit All icon. Once you’re in edit mode, the Summary panel displays a table of contents of the candidate profile sections. You can click section titles to quickly navigate to that specific content.