Recruitment

Follow your candidates on the stages board

Move a card, read what it shows, and understand the warnings before a move.

2 min readUpdated on August 25, 2026

The Team → Recruitment → Stages screen shows your candidates in columns, one column per stage, like a physical board.

Choose the job

The Job selector at the top picks the advert on display. Select a specific job in order to be able to drag the cards: that is what the message "Select a job to drag candidates between stages" reminds you of.

What a card shows

  • the candidate's name and the job applied for;
  • how long they have been waiting in their stage ("In stage...") and how long ago they applied;
  • the state of their interview or of their trial: proposed, waiting for confirmation, confirmed by the candidate, cancelled, needs a new date, or arranged outside Shyfter.

A click on the card opens the candidate record on the side, without leaving the board.

Move a candidate

Drag the card from one column to another. Depending on the column it lands in, Shyfter follows on:

  • to an interview stage: the scheduling window opens. It is sending the proposal that moves the card, so closing the window leaves everything as it was.
  • to a trial stage: the trial proposal opens, on the same principle.
  • to a Hired stage: the creation of the Shyfter account opens.
  • to a Rejected stage: the rejection window opens, with the reason and the email to the candidate.
  • to a standard stage: a simple confirmation.

The warnings

The board protects you from two missteps:

  • Moving someone back always asks for confirmation: "Move Sarah back to the Shortlist stage?"
  • Moving someone who has an interview or a trial planned warns you what that implies, in so many words: "The interview on 12/09 at 14:00 will be cancelled and Sarah will receive a cancellation email."

So before you confirm, you see the email the candidate is going to receive.

Take a card off the board

From the record of a rejected candidate, Remove from the pipeline takes the card out of the Rejected column. The application is not lost: it stays available through the Archived filter of the candidate list, and the person stays in your talent pool if they had consented to it.

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