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The Mercury Recruit dashboard gives you a high-level view of what’s happening across hiring. Use it to spot trends, identify bottlenecks, and decide where to take action next.
The dashboard is your daily starting point. Use it for quick visibility, then open Jobs, Candidates, or Reports for detailed work.

When to use the dashboard

Open the dashboard when you need to:
  • Check overall hiring status
  • Monitor team activity
  • Track candidate progress
  • Review system usage and performance
  • Spot hiring bottlenecks before they slow down the team

Open the dashboard

The dashboard opens by default when you log in. You can also open it anytime from the left navigation:
1

Open Dashboard

Click Dashboard from the left navigation menu.
2

Review the summary

Start with the top cards, then scan the activity and funnel sections for changes.
Dash 1

What you can monitor

Hiring status

Track open positions, jobs opened, jobs filled, and overall hiring progress.

Team activity

Review recent actions and see whether your team is actively moving work forward.

Candidate movement

Monitor how candidates move through funnel stages and where drop-offs happen.

Workspace health

Check high-level system usage, users, departments, and uptime.

Dashboard sections

The dashboard is split into sections, each focused on a different signal.

Summary cards

The top cards give you quick scale and activity metrics.
CardWhat it tells you
Total usersHow many people have access to your workspace
Total departmentsHow your organization is structured
System uptimeWhether the platform is healthy
Open positionsThe current size of your active hiring pipeline

Active Users & Roles

Shows how users are distributed across recruiting roles, such as:
  • Recruit Admin
  • Recruitment Manager
  • Recruiter
  • Interviewer
  • External Collaborator
Use this to understand team structure and catch role imbalances—for example, too many interviewers without an owning recruiter.

Recent user activity

Shows the most recent additions or removals in your workspace. Click View All to open the full audit trail.

Job Requisition Insights

Tracks hiring activity with two key metrics:
  • Jobs opened
  • Jobs filled
Use the date filters to compare activity across different time windows.
Use this for short-term tracking, weekly changes, and immediate hiring momentum.

Team Activities

Lists recent actions taken by team members. Use View All to open the complete log. This helps you confirm whether teammates are actively moving candidates and jobs forward.

Candidate Funnel

Shows candidate movement across hiring stages.

Example funnel

AppliedUnder ReviewDocument VerificationOfferedHired
Filter the funnel by Last 7 days, Last 30 days, or a custom date range.
A sudden drop between two stages usually points to a bottleneck—for example, a backlog in Under Review can mean recruiters need more bandwidth.
Dash 2

Top Performers

Highlights top contributors for the selected period. If no qualifying activity exists, the section may be empty. That usually means there was no matching activity in the selected date range.

Customize the dashboard

Click Edit at the top of the page to adjust the layout and reorder sections to match how your team works.

What to be careful about

  • Don’t make decisions on dashboard numbers alone — confirm with detailed reports.
  • Always check the date filter before drawing conclusions; the funnel can look very different across 7 vs 90 days.
  • An empty widget doesn’t always mean a problem — it may simply mean no activity occurred in the selected window.

What the dashboard is not for

Use the dashboard for visibility, not deep work

  • Detailed reporting — use Reports for deeper analysis.
  • Managing candidates — use the Candidates module.
  • Configuring jobs — use the Jobs module.
The dashboard is for high-level visibility only.

Next steps

Manage jobs

Find, filter, and act on jobs from one screen.

Manage candidates

Review and organize candidates across all jobs.
Last modified on June 19, 2026