Working with a Candidate

The candidate pane, or dialog, is your window on the candidate. It shows you everywhere that the candidate is in the system and allows you to easily access the following information:

• Resume
• Posting
• Detail
• Reminders
• Tracking
• Jobs
• Queries

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Tip:

double-clicking on the candidate will open the candidate dialog window.

Learn how to submit a candidate, import a new candidate or print a candidate's resume.

Candidate Resume tab

• View the candidates resume in the resume view port and quickly scroll to your keywords using the up and down arrows to the right of the browse button.
• To open a candidate's resume as a Word document or text file, click Open As, and choose the format.
• To print a candidate's resume, click Open As and select the file format you want to print from. Once you are in the Word or Text file, select print.
• To browse a candidate's resume on the web, click Browse, and select On the Web.
• To browse a candidate's resume off of your hard drive click Browse and select Local Copy.

Candidate Posting tab

The Posting tab displays valuable candidate information that has been populated by TalentHook during the query. This information is viewable from this tab and not editable. The following posting information will be displayed depending on whether or not it is available from the original source:

• Date posted
• Source
• Status
• Term
• Location
• Experience
• Relocate
• Description
• Notes

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Note:

TalentHook updates posting information every time a candidate is retrieved from a new search or refreshed search.

Candidate Detail tab

The Detail tab shows candidate contact information such as name, email, phone number, and address.

Edit or add to candidate detail information from this tab.

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Note:

If TalentHook finds candidate detail information that has not been found in previous searches or manually entered by the recruiter, it will populate that detail information. It will never overwrite existing data in the detail tab with newly retrieved data.

Candidate Reminders tab

The Reminders tab shows any reminders having to do with this candidate.

• To set a new reminder for a candidate, click New and then select the type of reminder in the drop-down menu.
• To view or edit an existing reminder, highlight it and click Open.
• To delete a reminder, highlight it and click Delete.

Candidate Tracking tab

The Tracking tab allows you to set up new tracking, edit existing tracking and view tracking history for this candidate.

• To record a new tracking item, click New and select the desired tracking item in the drop-down menu.
• To view or edit a tracking item, highlight it and click Open.
• To delete a tracking item, highlight it and click Delete.

Candidate Jobs tab

The Jobs tab shows a list of jobs to which the candidate is linked. Candidates must be in a Hotlist or Worklist of a job to appear in this list.

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Note:

If a colored head appears next to a candidate name, it means that the candidate is linked to (in a Hotlist or Worklist) another job. For more information on candidate color coding, see the legend.

• To go to the list a candidate is on, click Goto List.
• To open a job information dialog window, click Open Job.
• To open a candidate information dialog window, click Open Candidate.

Candidate Queries tab

The Queries tab shows all of the queries in the system in which this candidate was retrieved.

• To go to a different query containing the candidate, highlight the desired query and click Goto List.
• To open a job information dialog window highlight the query that the job is linked to and click Open Job.
• To open a candidate information dialog window, click Open Candidate.