Pin and Unpin Candidates from the Side Panel

Recruiting Guide

Version
R2025.2.1
ft:lastEdition
2025-12-01
Pin and Unpin Candidates from the Side Panel

You can pin up to 50 candidates to the side panel in Recruiting. This allows you to quickly access the candidate profiles that you use frequently. Candidates in the Pinned list are displayed in alphabetical order by last name.

Role feature access: Recruiting > Recruiting > Candidate Management

The pinned candidates list is displayed below the Candidate Management tab in the side panel, and can be expanded or collapsed by clicking the Pinned label. When you pin a candidate, they are added to your own pinned candidates list, but not to the lists for other users (that is, they are only visible to you).

- Improved Recruiter Experience -

You can pin candidates in the following ways when using the Improved Recruiter Experience:

  • In the Candidates tab for job requisitions in Recruiting > Job Requisitions, select one or more candidates, and then select More > Pin Candidate from the toolstrip menu. If the candidates are already pinned, you can select Unpin Candidate instead. If you try to pin or unpin several candidates who have different pinned/unpinned statuses, the option to pin or unpin isn’t available.
  • In the candidate's profile, select More > Pin Candidate in the toolstrip menu. If the candidate is already pinned, you can select Unpin Candidate instead.
  • In Candidate Management, go to the candidate's profile and select More > Pin Candidate in the toolstrip menu.
  • In Talent Pools, click the pin candidate icon () next to the candidate's name in the search results.

After pinning a candidate, you can quickly remove them from the Pinned list in the side panel by hovering the cursor over their name and clicking the unpin candidate icon:

Action menu with the cursor hovered over the unpin candidate option.

- Classic Recruiter Experience -

You can pin candidates in the following ways when using the Classic Recruiter Experience:

  • In candidate lists, select the candidate and click the pin candidate icon in the Pin Candidate column for the candidate:
  • Pin column highlighted.
  • You can find this column in candidate talent pools, the Candidate Management tab, or the Candidates tab for job requisitions in Recruiting > Job Requisitions.
  • You can also pin or unpin multiple candidates at once by selecting the candidates in the list and then right-clicking and selecting the Pin Candidate or Unpin Candidate option in the displayed menu. When pinning or unpinning multiple candidates at once, you must ensure that the selected candidates have the same pinned/unpinned status. If the statuses don’t match, the option to pin or unpin the candidates is grayed out. For example, if you select two pinned candidates and one unpinned candidate, the pin options in the right-click menu aren't available.
  • In the candidate's profile, click Pin Candidate in the Actions list. If the candidate is already pinned, you can select Unpin Candidate instead.
  • In Talent Community, click the pin candidate icon next to the candidate's name in the search results.
  • In the Recruiting quick search, click the action menu next to the candidate's name in the search results, and then select the Pin Candidate or Unpin Candidate option:
  • Action menu with the cursor hovered over the Pin Candidate option.

After pinning a candidate, you can quickly remove them from the Pinned list in the side panel by hovering the cursor over their name and clicking the unpin candidate icon:

Side panel with the cursor hovering over the unpin candidate icon.