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Applications and pipeline

An application in Talent Bank links a candidate to a specific job. Each application carries a stage that places it in your hiring pipeline, along with any scores, interviews, and a full history of the actions taken on it. You work with applications through the Hiring section in Studio. This page explains the model behind those views.

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Stage groups and stages

Every application sits in two related fields: a stage group and a stage.

• Stage group is a fixed set of funnel milestones. It drives reporting and the pipeline’s lifecycle rules, and it never changes shape.
• Stage is the specific step within a group. Your company owns its own list of stages, so you can tailor the columns in your pipeline to how your team works.

The stage groups are: Hired, Rejected, and Withdrawn are terminal — an application in one of these groups stays there until it is reinstated.

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Actions

You change an application by taking an action on it. Each action is recorded in the application’s history. Disqualifying an application requires a reason — your company owns the list of reasons available. Reinstating moves a terminal application (rejected, withdrawn, or even hired) back into an active stage.

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Scores

Applications can carry scores recorded by inploi or by an Automation. Scores come in a few types:

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Where actions happen

Most actions are taken by your team in the Hiring views. Automations can also act on applications — for example shortlisting based on a score — and those actions appear in the same history. See Syncing from Automations.