The Recruiting home: hero, Take Action, and the seven Explore tiles

What the Recruiting home shows

Recruiting is where Verinode reads your hiring pipeline: the roles you have open, the applicants moving through them, how long a hire takes, and whether the people you bring on stay. It reads from the requisitions, applicants, interview steps, and talent pool candidates that flow into Verinode from your inbound recruiting email, manual entry, or connected tools. As an independent data trust and AI Co-COO, Verinode does not do your hiring for you: it surfaces where the pipeline is thin, slow, or leaking, and lays out the options. You decide who to hire and when to post a role.

Where to find it

Open Recruiting from the sidebar at iq.verinode.ai/recruiting. The page is one scrolling home, built from rows that stack top to bottom: a hero panel, a Take Action row, an Explore row of seven tiles, then three record rows (Open Roles, In Play, Talent Pool) and a seasonal row at the bottom. Every row exists on the same page, no tab is required to see the top-level numbers. Clicking almost anything opens the same right-hand slider, which then lands on one of seven tabs: Findings, Open Roles, Applicants, Pipeline, Talent Pool, Hires + Retention, Benchmarks.

A Send data button sits in the page header (top right) for forwarding documents or connecting a source; see Connecting your data and Forwarding documents.

The hero panel

The hero is the frameless band at the top of the page. It carries one dominant number plus two supporting figures, all built from your live pipeline:

• Eyebrow: "OPEN ROLES"
• Headline: your count of open roles, animated in on load.
• Pill (only when you have offer data): reads like "72% Offer Accept". Its color reflects performance: green at 85% and above, amber (maintain tone) from 70 to 84%, and copper/red (analyse tone) below 70%.
• Sub-line, which changes depending on your state:

- If you have no open roles and no applicants: "Add Data, open a role or import a roster, and Verinode starts tracking your pipeline." - If Verinode has flagged that your historical peak hiring month is approaching and you have not posted ahead of it: "Post now, [Month] peak is [N] days out." - Otherwise: "[N] applicant(s) across [N] open role(s)."

• Secondary metrics, two flat figures to the right of the headline with no box around them:

- In Flight: your applicant count, sub-labeled "Active Applicants" when above zero, or "No Applicants In Pipeline" when it is zero. - Time To Hire: your average days to hire, sub-labeled "Avg Days" once you have closed hires, or "Need Closed Roles" before you do. This figure turns to an analyse (copper) tone when your average is slower than the peer time-to-fill median Verinode has for your cohort.

The hero is read-only. Its numbers are the same ones repeated (and made clickable) in the Explore row below.

Take Action row

This row is your first stop for what needs a decision today. It always opens with up to two setup tiles, then your live decisions:

1. Start here (agent activation tile): a copper cover tile that opens the AI Agent panel with a recruiting-specific opening message. This is the fastest way to just talk to IQ about your hiring funnel instead of digging through tiles yourself. Once you have had a conversation in this panel, the tile retires.
2. Unlock/deepen tile (only while your recruiting data is incomplete): tells you exactly what is missing to get more out of the section, for example, which export from which tool would fill a gap. It disappears once your Recruiting data is complete.
3. Decision tiles, one per live signal Verinode has found in your pipeline (a stalled requisition, a pipeline drought, an offer-acceptance shift, and so on). The first one renders larger ("hero" size), the rest at standard size. Clicking a decision tile opens its own workspace; see The decision workspace for how these are structured everywhere in the platform.

When there are no live decisions, the row shows one of three empty states, verbatim:

• No roles or applicants at all: "Open your first requisition" / "Post a role or forward applicant emails to your inbound address. As resumes flow in, scored applicants and pipeline signals show up here."
• You have a pipeline and have already resolved signals: "All clear across your pipeline" / "You've worked through [N] signal(s). New applicants, stalled reqs, and offer-acceptance shifts show up here the moment the detector catches them."
• You have a pipeline but nothing has resolved yet: "Still learning your pipeline" / "As applicants flow in and you close hires, top decisions will appear here."

The Explore row: seven MetricTiles

Explore is a horizontal row of seven tiles, each a live read on one part of your pipeline. Every tile is clickable and opens the slider on the tab noted below. Where Verinode has a peer figure for the metric, the tile shows a "vs Peer" delta line; this only appears once Verinode has a real cohort read for your metric, otherwise the tile shows your own number with no comparison. Peer comparisons are never shown as a specific competitor's number, only your figure measured against the cohort's typical range.

1. Open Roles

• Value: your count of open roles.
• Sub-line: "no roles posted" when zero, otherwise "[N] applicants in flight."
• Preview: a row of dots, one per open role.
• Opens: the Open Roles tab.

2. Applicants

• Value: your count of applicants currently in flight.
• Sub-line: "all in cadence" when every applicant is being followed up with on schedule, or "[N] cadence stale" when some have gone quiet past their expected follow-up window. The tile's accent switches from teal to amber when any applicant is cadence-stale.
• Preview: a segmented bar splitting in-cadence applicants (good) from cadence-stale ones (warning).
• Opens: the Applicants tab.

3. Time To Hire

• Value: your average days to hire, formatted like "18d," or a dash when you have no closed hires yet.
• Sub-line: "across your closed hires."
• Preview: a marker on a shared track, your average plotted against the peer time-to-fill median, so you can see at a glance whether you sit ahead of or behind the peer marker.
• Peer delta: "+/-N.N vs Peer," green when you are faster, red when you are slower. Only shown once both your figure and a peer figure exist.
• Opens: the Benchmarks tab.

4. Hiring Flow

• Value: the median days for your slowest mined stage transition (your "bottleneck") across the hiring path from Received to Interviewed to Hired, or a dash if Verinode cannot yet mine a bottleneck from your data.
• Sub-line: "[Stage] is your slowest step" once mined, or "Add interview and hire dates to map your hiring flow" before Verinode has enough dated stage transitions.
• Preview: a "pace" strip, one dot per mined transition in your funnel, with the slowest one lit.
• Peer delta: the same bottleneck transition's median measured against the peer cohort's median for that same step, when a peer read exists.
• Opens: the Benchmarks tab.

5. Offer Acceptance

• Value: your offer acceptance rate as a percentage, or a dash with no offer data.
• Sub-line: "past 180 days."
• Preview: a gauge with thresholds at 70% and 85%: green at 85% and above, amber (warn) between 70 and 84%, red (bad) below 70%.
• Peer delta: your rate against the peer offer-acceptance rate, when Verinode has one for your cohort.
• Opens: the Benchmarks tab.

6. Retention 90d

• Value: the share of new hires still on your team 90 days after starting, as a percentage, or a dash without enough hire history.
• Sub-line: "new hires still on the team."
• Preview: a ring gauge, same thresholds as Offer Acceptance (green at 85%+, amber 70 to 84%, red below 70%).
• Peer delta: your 90-day retention against the peer median, when available.
• Opens: the Hires + Retention tab.

7. Talent Pool

• Value: your count of warm candidates on file.
• Sub-line: "[N] matching open roles" when some of your warm candidates match a currently open role, otherwise "warm candidates on file."
• Preview: a bar split between candidates matching an open role (green accent) and the rest of the warm pool.
• Accent: turns green when at least one warm candidate matches an open role, otherwise stays violet.
• Opens: the Talent Pool tab.

Below the Explore row: the record rows

Open Roles

A row of tiles: a permanent copper New Role tile first (opens the full-page role editor at /recruiting/new, where the Hiring Advisor drafts the job description with a comp range and state-legal clauses), followed by one tile per open requisition you have. Each requisition tile shows its title, its status line, and a colored dot for its severity (critical, warning, or informational; requisitions are sorted with the most severe first). Clicking a requisition tile opens the Open Roles tab focused on that record. The New Role tile is always present, even with zero requisitions, so you are never blocked from posting.

In Play

Applicant tiles, sorted the same way (most severe or most urgent first), each labeled "Applicant" with its name and current status. Clicking one opens the Applicants tab focused on that record.

Empty state: "Applicants will appear here as resumes flow into your recruiting inbox or get added manually."

Talent Pool

Tiles for warm or engaged candidates in your talent pool, up to ten shown, sorted the same way. Clicking one opens the Talent Pool tab focused on that record.

Empty state: "Warm candidates matching your open roles surface here as you build the talent pool."

Seasonal

This row only renders content when Verinode has detected your historical peak hiring month is approaching and calculates that you should post ahead of it. When it fires, it shows a double-width Seasonal Signal tile: "Post for [Month]" with the sub-line "Peak in [N]d, open roles now land pipelines before the surge." Clicking it opens the Open Roles tab.

Empty state (the normal state most of the time): "When your historical peak hiring month approaches, this row recommends posting ahead of the window."

How to use it in practice

Start at the hero for the one-line state of your pipeline, then scan Take Action for anything that needs a decision today. Use the Explore tiles as your dashboard for the shape of the funnel: Open Roles and Applicants tell you volume, Time To Hire and Hiring Flow tell you speed and where it stalls, Offer Acceptance and Retention 90d tell you whether the people you extend offers to say yes and stay, and Talent Pool tells you whether you already have warm candidates who could fill a role instead of starting a search from zero. Click any tile to drill into the matching tab for the full detail behind the number.

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