How to reject a candidate?
Find out how to easily reject a candidate.
Sometimes a candidate isn’t the right fit for a vacancy. In that case, you can mark the candidate as ‘rejected’ to indicate that they haven’t been selected for the vacancy.
- Go to the relevant candidate. There are two ways to do this:
- Find the candidate in the full candidate overview under the ‘Applications’ tab (discover how to quickly find a candidate).
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Find the candidate in the candidate overview for the relevant vacancy.
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Click on the candidate’s name to open their candidate profile.
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Click the hand icon in the top-right corner of the screen.

- The hand icon turns red, and the candidate is marked as ‘Rejected’. You can add a reason for the rejection and provide further details.

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As soon as you reject the candidate, the hand icon turns red and the candidate’s status changes to ‘Rejected’.
