📌 This feature is available on the Optimize plan.
Making objective decisions when hiring candidates may often be a hard thing but with Anonymous Candidate functionality you can remove some of those potential biases. When the feature is enabled, it allows you to hide the candidate's name, gender or nationality from a pipeline. Thanks to this, you can evaluate a candidate’s CV without knowing anything else about the person and make a decision based only on their skill set and experience.
⚠️Personal details on a candidate's CV are hidden by an AI so as with any machine learning, information is sometimes not recognised perfectly.
How to enable anonymous candidates
To turn on or off the Anonymous Candidates feature for your company, you’ll need admin access. Go to Settings > Workflow > Unbiased Hiring and click Edit next to Anonymous Candidates.
In the new window, select Display the feature and click Save.
Once the feature is enabled, you can start adding the functionality to your pipeline templates and jobs. For pipeline templates, go to Settings > Templates > Pipelines, then select the pipeline template you want to update.
Click the pencil icon next to a stage and tick the box to enable Anonymous candidates.
Once the feature is enabled, an eye icon appears on the stage to signal Anonymous candidates are active.
💡You can also enable Anonymous Candidates for custom pipelines directly in the job editor. This allows you to enable the functionality for individual jobs without using a pipeline template.
The same icon is also displayed at the top of the pipeline where candidates are anonymised.
How Anonymous Candidates works in practice
Once you have enabled the feature for the selected step in the pipeline, the candidate’s full name is now hidden in each job where the pipeline is used.
The candidate’s name is also hidden in the general candidate directory.
It also recognises information related to the candidate’s identity on the CV and hides the relevant information automatically. Here is a short list of the type of information the AI can hide:
Full name
Date of birth
Photo
Contact details (phone number, email, address)
Social media links
Gender
Nationality
Here’s an example of what a candidate’s CV will look like in the preview when the candidate is in a phase where anonymization is active.
When a candidate is anonymous, no one can message them or schedule an interview until they have moved to a stage where they are no longer anonymous to keep personal details from being discovered.
Once a candidate moves to a different pipeline where Anonymous Candidate is not enabled, their personal information is no longer anonymised.
📌A candidate’s details are also revealed when they are removed from a job or disqualified..