Candidate Sources Report

Overview

The Candidate Sources Report helps you understand where your candidates and applicants are coming from so you can evaluate the effectiveness of your recruiting channels. Use this report to compare candidate volume, identify your highest-quality sources, and make more informed sourcing decisions.

Candidate sources are automatically captured when candidates apply through supported sources, such as your hosted careers site, Indeed, or the Add Any Job Board feature. You can also assign or update a candidate's source when manually adding a candidate or performing a bulk upload.

Access the Report

To open the Candidate Sources Report:

Click the Reports icon in the left navigation menu.
From the Reporting Dashboard, select Candidate Sources.

Note: Users who are not Super Admins only have access to the Candidate Sources Report. For those users, the report opens directly instead of displaying the full Reporting Dashboard.

Filter the Report

Use Add Filter to narrow the report to the data you want to analyze.

Available filtering options allow you to focus on specific recruiting activity, and custom date filters let you report on any date range that meets your needs.

Customize the Report

You can tailor the report to display the information most relevant to your hiring process via the Manage Columns button.

Options include:

Selecting which candidates are included in the report.
Choosing which columns are displayed.
Scrolling horizontally to view additional report columns.
Customizing the Passed Stage and Rejected Stage used in the report.

By selecting different stages, you can evaluate not only which sources generate the most applicants, but also which sources produce candidates who successfully progress through your hiring process. This helps identify your highest-quality recruiting sources.

Review Source Performance

The report provides several ways to analyze candidate sources.

View Candidate Lists

Click any blue candidate count to view the list of candidates associated with that source.

View Candidates by Hiring Stage

Select the graph icon next to a source to see how candidates from that source are distributed throughout your hiring stages.

This makes it easy to identify where candidates are advancing or leaving the hiring process.

Expand Similar Sources

For easier reporting, similar sources are grouped together by default.

Select the expand arrow to display the individual sources within a grouped category.

Export the Report

To download the report for additional analysis:

Click Download as Excel in the upper-right corner of the report.
Save the exported file for offline reporting, filtering, or further analysis in Microsoft Excel.

Edit Candidate Sources

If a candidate's source needs to be corrected, you can edit it directly from the candidate's profile.

You can also:

Search for candidates by source using Advanced Search.
View candidate source information in the Candidates Excel Report.

Best Practices

Use the Candidate Sources Report to:

Identify which recruiting channels generate the most applicants.
Measure which sources produce candidates who successfully advance through your hiring process.
Compare the effectiveness of job boards, referrals, career sites, and other recruiting channels.
Optimize recruiting spend by investing in your highest-performing candidate sources.

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