Your first 5 minutes: a tour of the dashboard
When you sign in, you land on the dashboard. Here is what every panel does, what the numbers actually mean, and where to click next depending on what you came to do.
Key takeaways
- The left sidebar is your global navigation: Dashboard, Jobs, Candidates, Interviews, Analytics, Billing, Settings.
- The top of the dashboard shows three KPIs: interviews ready to review, active jobs, and interviews completed this week.
- The middle panel shows *Recent activity* — the candidates most recently invited or interviewed.
- The right side shows your credit balance and quick-action shortcuts.
- Your credit balance shows in the top bar from every page, not just the dashboard.
Before you start
After you sign in for the first time, you land on the dashboard. Before you click anywhere, take a minute to orient yourself — knowing where things live now will save you a lot of clicking later.
The left sidebar
Your global navigation. From top to bottom:
- Dashboard — the page you are looking at right now.
- Jobs — every job your team has created.
- Candidates — every candidate, across all jobs.
- Interviews — every interview, completed or scheduled.
- Analytics (under "INSIGHTS") — aggregated metrics across all your interviews.
- Billing (under "ACCOUNT") — your credit balance and transaction history.
- Settings — profile, organisation, team, roles, integrations.
The sidebar is sticky — it stays put while you scroll. Your name and email show at the bottom along with a sign-out link.
The top bar
Three things live in the top bar on every page:
- Search (left) — a global search that looks across jobs, candidates, and interviews. Press
Kfrom anywhere to focus it. - Credit balance (centre-right) — shows your current credits with a
+button to top up. Click the number to open the billing page. - Your user menu (right) — click your avatar to open profile settings, switch organisations (if you belong to more than one), or sign out.
The dashboard itself
Top KPI row
Three numbers at the top of the page:
- Interviews ready to review — completed interviews you (or your teammates) have not yet opened. This is the main do something signal. Click the Review now button to go straight to the interview list filtered to these.
- Active jobs — jobs that currently accept new candidates. Excludes paused or closed jobs.
- Completed this week — interviews that finished in the last 7 days, regardless of whether they have been reviewed.
Recent activity
The middle-left panel. A live feed of the most recent interview activity — candidates who completed an interview, candidates you just invited, interviews that expired without being taken. Each row shows the candidate name, the role they were interviewed for, the date, and a status badge (e.g. Ready to review, Expired).
Click a row to jump directly to that candidate's profile. Click View all at the top-right of the panel to open the full activity timeline.
Credits panel
The middle-right panel. Shows your current credit balance and a Manage billing button. Each completed interview consumes credits based on its duration (typically 0.5 for a 15-minute interview, 0.75 for 30 minutes, 1.0 for 45 minutes). Read How credits work for the full breakdown.
Quick actions
Below the credits panel. Shortcut buttons to:
- Create new job
- View candidates
- View interviews
- View analytics
These are the same as the sidebar but easier to hit without moving your mouse far.
What to do first — three common starting points
- You're brand new and the dashboard is empty. Click Create new job (quick actions) or Jobs → + Create Job (sidebar). See Creating a job.
- You have a job already and want to invite candidates. Sidebar → Candidates → + Add Candidates. Or open the job, scroll to Candidates, and click Invite.
- Interviews have been completed and you want to review them. Dashboard → Review now button (top KPI panel), or sidebar → Interviews → filter by Completed. See Reading the interview results page.
TIP
Most experienced recruiters spend their time on the *Candidates* and *Interviews* pages, not on the Dashboard. The dashboard is a heads-up display; the work happens elsewhere.
Next: understand how credits work so you don't get surprised when an interview consumes more than you expected.
Frequently asked questions
My dashboard shows 0 in every panel. Did something break?
No — that is just the new-account state. Every KPI starts at zero until you create jobs, invite candidates, and see interviews complete. The fastest way to populate it is to create your first job and invite a candidate.
What does *Interviews ready to review* count exactly?
Interviews that have completed (candidate finished, AI evaluation generated) but have not yet been reviewed by anyone on your team. As soon as someone opens the interview detail page and reads the evaluation, it stops counting toward this KPI.
Why does the dashboard say *Good evening* when it is morning for me?
The greeting uses the time zone your browser reports. If it's wrong, check your operating system's time zone setting — the platform will respect it.
Next steps
How credits work
Every completed interview consumes credits. Here is the exact cost per duration, what counts as "completed", and how trial credits behave.
Sending an interview invite
How to invite one candidate or a batch of candidates to an interview — including what the candidate receives by email, how the invitation is scoped to a job, and what happens if you mis-target.