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Candidate statuses

An overview of the different candidate statuses displayed in Teamtailor

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Written by Nora
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All your candidates will have one or several candidate statuses. Let’s take a closer look at them and what they represent.

General statuses

The general candidate statuses help categorize how the candidate was added to your account. They can be filtered in your candidate bank under the Candidate status filters.

Applied

The candidate made an application to one of your jobs.

Note that this status will be displayed in the Application status column.

Connected

The candidate connected with your company. Read more about Connect here.

Sourced

The candidate was manually added to your account. You can read more about how to source candidates here.

Lead

When a visitor writes in your candidate chat, a candidate profile will be created and assigned the status Lead. Think of this as a potential candidate for future recruitment. Learn more about the Candidate chat here.

Referred

The candidate was referred by one of your users. Get more insight into how referrals work here.

Internal*

If you are working with internal recruitment, your internal candidates will have this status added to their candidate profile. Read more about internal recruitment here.

Sourced externally*

If you’re working with external recruiters, you’ll see this status on candidates sourced by an external recruiter.

This filter can be found under the other External recruitment filters. Read more about external recruiters here.

*These statuses are connected to add-on features, more on that here.

Privacy statuses

To help manage the status of your candidates privacy permissions and requests, you will be able to see their statuses listed under the Candidate status column in your candidate bank.

Use the filters under the Dates section to find candidates with a specific privacy status.

Using date filters makes the search flexible and relative. You can for eg. 1) use After to find all candidates whose permission expired after a specific date or 2) choose Any, to find all candidates with expired permission.

Permission expired

The candidate's permission for data storage and use has expired, and they haven't renewed their permission.

Permission missing

The candidate has yet to give you permission to store and use their data.

Permission pending

If the status is pending, it means you've sent a permission request to the candidate but you are still waiting for their response.

Removal requested

The candidate has submitted a removal request, asking you to remove their data.

Deleting soon

The candidate is flagged for deletion and will be automatically deleted within the next few days (countdown starting at 7 days).

Other statuses

Unsubscribed

Connected candidates who have disabled job subscriptions will have this status added to their candidate card. Read more about how candidates can manage their job subscriptions here.

Shared

This candidate has been shared externally using out share feature. Read more about sharing candidates here.

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