Candidate Profiles

When candidate accounts are enabled, job seekers can build a profile on your board. This is the foundation for the talent directory and employer messaging, and it gives you a candidate database you own.

Prerequisites

Candidate profiles must be enabled under Settings → Features. To test public discovery, also enable the talent directory and use a candidate account whose email you can verify.

What is in a profile

A profile holds a headline, bio, location, skills, work experience, education, and languages, plus links such as LinkedIn and a portfolio. Candidates manage all of this from their account on your board.

Resume upload and parsing

A candidate can upload a resume, and AI resume parsing reads it to pre-fill the profile (skills, experience, education, and links) so they do not start from a blank form. The candidate can then edit anything the parser filled in.

Profile visibility

Every candidate controls their own visibility, with three levels:

• Hidden: not shown in the talent directory at all. The candidate can still use saved jobs and alerts.
• Logged-in users only: visible to signed-in employers, not to anonymous visitors.
• Public: visible to anyone, including anonymous visitors.

New profiles default to hidden. The per-board default is hidden and is not exposed as a dashboard setting.

Job-search status

A candidate also sets a job-search status, one of actively looking, open to offers, or not looking. They can choose whether this status is shown to everyone or to employers only.

Turn candidate profiles on

Candidate profiles are enabled by default on new boards. To turn them on or off:

1. Go to Settings in your dashboard sidebar.
2. Open the Features tab.
3. Toggle Candidate profiles on (or off).

The setting saves instantly. Once on, your board shows sign-in and sign-up for job seekers. Turning it off hides sign-in and profile options and also disables the registration wall, which depends on candidate accounts. Existing candidate data is preserved if you turn it off and back on.

Where candidates appear in your dashboard

When job seekers sign up, they appear in the Candidates section of your dashboard. From there you can view registered candidates, search by name or email, see when they signed up, and remove a candidate if needed.

Candidate reachability

Whether an employer can reach a candidate through messaging depends on three things together:

• Job-search status must be open, meaning actively looking or open to offers. A candidate set to not looking cannot be cold-messaged.
• Profile visibility must let that employer see the candidate.
• Blocks: neither side can have blocked the other.

This is the candidate's only lever over inbound contact. The matching gates on the employer side are covered in messaging.

Availability

• Plan: All paid plans. Candidate profiles (and AI resume parsing) are available on every paid plan.
• Setting: Settings, then Features, then "Candidate profiles."
• Setup required: None.

Limitations

• New profiles default to hidden, so candidates are not discoverable until they raise their own visibility. The per-board default cannot be changed from the dashboard today.
• A profile is only as complete as the candidate makes it. Resume parsing helps, but fields the candidate leaves empty stay empty.

Verify candidate profiles

Open the public board in a signed-out window and confirm candidate sign-up is available. Create a test candidate, verify the email, and confirm the profile starts hidden. Change it to Public and verify it appears only when the talent directory is also enabled; switch it back to Hidden and confirm it disappears without deleting the candidate account.

Example

For example, a candidate can upload a resume, correct the parsed headline and skills, set their status to Open to offers, and choose Logged-in users only. Approved employers can then discover the profile while signed-out visitors cannot.

If a profile is missing

Confirm candidate profiles and the talent directory are enabled, the candidate verified their email, and their visibility permits the current viewer. Resume parsing fills only information it can extract; if a field is missing or wrong, the candidate should edit it rather than upload the same file repeatedly.

Next steps

Configure Talent directory visibility, then read Messaging to understand when an employer can contact a visible candidate.