You can add a Do Not Hire flag for candidates who you’ve found to be unsuitable for your organization. This ensures that the candidate will not be considered for future roles. For example, you might want to flag a candidate who submitted false information on a job application or who provided one or more fake references.
When flagged, the candidate cannot be hired from within the Recruiting feature. If you later want to hire that candidate, you must first remove the flag using the Remove Do Not Hire button described below.
Role feature access:
- Recruiting > Recruiting > Actions > Add Do Not Hire
- Recruiting > Recruiting > Actions > Remove Do Not Hire
To add the Do Not Hire flag for a candidate:
- Go to the Candidates tab of Recruiting > Job Requisitions.
- Select the candidate’s name.
- Click Do Not Hire in the toolstrip.
- The application opens the Add/ View Notes dialog box.
- (Optional) Enter a note explaining why you're flagging the candidate as Do Not Hire. By default, the visibility for this note is set to Everyone, but you can change this selection.
- Close the dialog box.
For the Improved Recruiter Experience, the candidate is moved to the Disqualified Candidates tab, with "Do not hire" shown as the disqualification reason. You can click the goto ( 
) icon next to this reason to see the names of the users who added or removed the flag from the candidate.
For the Classic Recruiter Experience, you see the Do not hire this candidate icon (
) in the Indicators column of the Candidates tab. This icon is also displayed next to the candidate’s name throughout Recruiting, including in their candidate profile and in the Talent Community. You can click the icon to see the names of the users who added or removed the flag from the candidate.
The Do not hire candidate icon is also shown in Talent Pools, even for the Improved Recruiter Experience.
If your user role was assigned Remove Do Not Hire access, the Do Not Hire choices change to Remove Do Not Hire after you flag a candidate. You can use this choice to remove the flag from the candidate’s record. For the Classic Recruiter Experience, you can also add or remove the Do Not Hire flag by opening the candidate’s profile and clicking Do Not Hire or Remove Do Not Hire in the left-side panel.