Where you land

After onboarding, Talinty drops you on the dashboard. Think of it as the room everything else opens out from: roles on one side, candidates on the other, and the actions you take most living on a panel to your right.

You can always come back here by clicking the Talinty logo in the top-left corner. If you ever feel lost in the product, that click is your reset.

What's on the screen

• Top navigation. Runs across the top of every screen. It's how you move between Jobs, Candidates, Reports, and Settings. Your profile menu sits in the top right, with global search and notifications next to it. Global search is the one to know; it'll jump you to any candidate, job, or setting by name.

• Job List. Your roles, in one place. Each row shows the role's status (Draft, Published, Closed), how many candidates are in the pipeline, and the next action waiting on you. Click a row to open the full role view. The list is sorted by most recent activity by default; click any column header to re-sort.

• Candidate List. Everyone currently moving through your roles. Filter by stage (All, Application, Online Screening, and so on), search by name, or sort by AI score. The status badges (New, Hired, Disqualified) tell you where someone stands without opening their profile. The list pulls from every role you have access to, so a Hiring Manager assigned to two roles sees those candidates and no others.

• Actions panel. Sits on the right. It surfaces the highest-impact moves available right now: Apply AI Criteria to re-rank a pool, Compare Candidates to put two profiles side by side, and whatever else is contextually useful in that session. The panel is dynamic; it shows different actions depending on what you've selected and what stage your active roles are in.

• The AI Assistant. Floating button, bottom-right corner. Click it anywhere in the product to ask a question, summarize a shortlist, draft a message, or take an action. It reads the screen you're on, so you don't have to re-explain context every time. Asking "who are my top three?" from the dashboard pulls from your full pipeline; asking the same question from inside a specific role narrows the answer to that role.

Status badges, at a glance

The candidate badges aren't decoration; they're how you scan the list in two seconds instead of thirty. The standard set:

• New. Application received, not yet reviewed.

• In Review. A teammate is actively working the profile.

• Assessment Sent. Skill test or video interview is out, awaiting candidate response.

• Shortlisted. Advanced past initial screening.

• Hired. Offer accepted, candidate is moving into your HRIS.

• Disqualified. No longer in consideration, kept in the pool for record and future searches.

Badges change automatically as candidates move through the pipeline. You can also set them manually from a candidate's profile when the situation calls for it.

Note for the docs team: confirm the exact badge labels and any additional ones (like Hold, Future Roles) against the live product. The pattern is the pattern; update the labels to match.

Day one is going to feel empty

If you've just signed up, the dashboard won't look like the marketing screenshots. That's expected. There are no candidates because there are no jobs yet. The fastest way to make the dashboard useful is to post a role:

1. Click Jobs in the top navigation, then New Job.

2. Let the AI draft the description from a short brief.

3. Publish to your career page and any boards you've connected.

Once the first applications come in (sometimes within an hour, depending on the role and channel), the dashboard fills out and starts surfacing the work that actually needs your attention.

Week two and beyond

By the second week of regular use, the dashboard becomes the screen you check first in the morning. You'll see what changed overnight (new applications, completed assessments, candidates who responded to outreach), and the Actions panel will start surfacing the small jobs that compound into hiring momentum: re-rank this pool, compare these two, mention this teammate.

Most teams find they spend less time inside individual candidate profiles and more time on the dashboard once they trust the AI's first pass. That's the intended shape. The profiles are for decisions; the dashboard is for direction.