Candidate Reviews: Enhance Collaboration Between Recruiters and Hiring Managers

Faster hiring starts with tight alignment from the start. But in practice, busy schedules and unclear expectations often slow things down.

Hiring manager expectations on ideal profiles can be implicit, feedback hard to collect, and review workflows clunky. This lack of tight alignment leaves recruiters to guess what “good” looks like, creating delays and mismatched candidates.

Candidate Reviews in Ashby make it easy for hiring teams to quickly exchange structured feedback on candidate profiles and stay aligned all within the ATS. They give you a lightweight, structured way to get hiring manager feedback on candidate profiles quickly and easily.

Requesting candidate reviews

You can quickly request reviews from hiring managers using Bulk Actions in Sourcing Projects. To get started, jump into any active sourcing project and select the candidates who match your desired profile. You’ll find a new Request Review action.

When you do this, a new dialogue screen will appear where you can enter your review request details. You’ll enter a title, select your reviewer, and provide context for the request in the optional note.

Once sent, you’ll be notified again when the assigned reviewer has completed their reviews.

Review candidates easily

Hiring Managers are instantly pulled into the Candidate Review process with a one-click review request that is delivered right into their inbox. The email notification is optimized for action, which is necessary when partnering with busy Hiring Managers.

Hiring Managers will also see a new task notification waiting for them the next time they log into Ashby under a new Reviews tab. This notification makes it easy to track and complete reviews alongside their other hiring team activities.

When a hiring manager starts a review, they’ll see the candidate’s profile along with all the context the recruiter provided. This makes it easy to jump in without a lengthy handoff, or the context switching that comes when using a tool outside your ATS.

As hiring managers review profiles, they can score candidates with an easy 1-4 scale, and input any optional notes about the profile to help TA teams better refine their sourcing strategies. The built-in scoring mechanism ensures a structured evaluation across candidates.

This setup allows hiring managers to review candidates on their own time, while giving recruiters the clear, actionable feedback they need to move fast and stay aligned.

Hiring Managers will work through each profile until they have finished reviewing all candidates. At that point they will see the same completed reviews page that you do.

Perfect for tight feedback loops, clearer collaboration, and faster iteration on sourcing strategy.

Review feedback at a glance

With Candidate Reviews, it’s easy to tell whether your sourcing strategy is working. Candidates who received a passing score (3 or 4) are marked with a green thumbs-up icon. Those who scored 2 or below are marked with a red thumbs-down.

On the right side of the Reviews page, Ashby summarizes the hiring manager’s feedback across the pool of candidates you requested for review. You’ll see who reviewed the candidates, any notes they left, the average score, and the overall pass rate. Recruiters can also view the original note shared when the review was requested, giving full context to the request.

Even at high volumes, Candidate Reviews are designed to be actionable. They help you spot trends, adjust your approach, and continuously improve alignment with hiring managers.

When there’s enough review data, Ashby takes it a step further with AI-powered summaries. These summaries highlight sentiment, surface patterns in the feedback, and suggest next steps, like tightening your criteria or shifting your focus.

A central view of all reviews

Under the Sourcing tab, Ashby customers will find a new Candidate Reviews item. Here they can see a central view of Candidate Reviews across your organization. Teams can view their sent and received requests, create targeted filtered views, and manage the status of current candidate reviews.

You can filter by reviewer, requester, title, status, and confidentiality which makes it easy to stay organized as volume grows.