User Guide: Companies & Research Intelligence

This guide explains how to use Kandid.pro's company management features to build a strategic intelligence hub for every organisation you are targeting — tracking applications, contacts, competitors, values, and market news in one place.

The Benefit: Why Build Company Intelligence?

Most job seekers research a company once, briefly, before an interview. Kandid.pro lets you build a living, structured knowledge base for every organisation in your pipeline so you can:

• Walk Into Interviews Prepared: Your values mapping, curated news articles, and company-specific interview questions mean you always have something insightful to say — and smart questions to ask.
• Understand the Competitive Landscape: Knowing who a company competes with helps you tailor your narrative around the problems they are actually trying to solve.
• Connect the Dots: Every application, contact, and career role you have ever had with a company is linked in one place, giving you the full picture at a glance.
• Prioritise Your Effort: Mark companies as Favourite or Preferred to surface the opportunities worth most of your time.

The Companies Page

Navigate to Companies in the main sidebar. The page header shows your total company count and provides a button to add new companies.

Finding Companies

Search

Type in the search box to filter by company name or industry in real time.

Filters

Use the filter dropdowns to narrow the list:

• Industry — Technology, Finance, Healthcare, E-commerce, Manufacturing, Education, Consulting, or Other.
• Size — filter by headcount band: 1–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–1,000, or 1,000+.
• Stage — Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C+, Public, or Bootstrapped.
• Favorites — show only starred companies.
• Preferred — show only companies marked as a preferred employer.

Active filters appear as dismissible badges. Click Clear all to reset everything at once.

Alphabetical Navigation

Click any letter in the A–Z bar to filter by companies starting with that letter. Click the same letter again to clear it.

Sorting

Sort by Name, Industry, or Created Date in ascending or descending order.

View

Toggle between Table and Grid layouts using the icons in the toolbar. Your preference is remembered between sessions.

Adding a Company

Click New Company to open the create panel.

Required Fields

• Company Name — the only mandatory field. Kandid.pro will alert you if a company with the same name already exists.

Optional Fields

Tip: If the company already exists in your database — because a contact or application was already linked to it — use the Select Existing toggle inside the create panel to find and use that record rather than creating a duplicate.

The Company Detail Page

Click any company to open its full detail page. The header shows the company name, industry, size, and stage badges, and a quick count of linked applications, contacts, and career roles.

Header actions:

• Star icon — toggle favourite status
• Notes — open a side panel for personal free-form notes
• Delete — permanently remove the company record. This affects all linked applications and contacts.

Tab 1: Overview

Displays and edits the company's core information.

Most fields are click-to-edit — click any value to edit it inline and it saves automatically when you click away. For broader updates, click Edit to switch all fields into bulk edit mode, then Save or Cancel when done. If you navigate away with unsaved changes, a dialogue will prompt you to save or discard.

Sections

• Basic Information — name, industry, size, and stage.
• Links — website, careers portal, LinkedIn, and Glassdoor links, each shown as a clickable external link.
• Tags — type a tag and press Enter to add it. Tags are useful for grouping companies by theme, e.g., "AI", "Remote", "Fintech".
• Notes — free-form text for anything that doesn't fit elsewhere.
• Metadata — created and last updated dates, and the URL slug Kandid.pro uses for this company's page.

Tab 2: Research

The Research tab is where Kandid.pro goes beyond a simple company directory. It gives you four structured areas for building genuine intelligence about an organisation.

Overview Sub-tab

Mission Statement

Record the company's official mission statement. Click Edit to open the editor, paste or type the statement, and save. Having the mission statement to hand is useful when preparing to articulate how your background aligns with the company's purpose.

Competitors

Track which companies this organisation competes with. Click Edit to search your existing company records and add competitors. Each competitor appears as a clickable card showing their industry, size, and stage — click through to their own company page.

If a competitor company has also listed this company as one of their competitors, a "Lists us as competitor" badge appears on their card, confirming the relationship is mutual.

Tip: If a competitor is not yet in your company database, add them first via New Company, then return here to link them.

Values Sub-tab

Track the company's stated values and cultural principles — and, critically, why they matter to you personally.

To add a value:

1. Click Add Value.
2. Enter the Title (e.g., "Customer Obsession") and a Description explaining what the company says it means.
3. Optionally add a Source (e.g., "Company careers page", "Glassdoor review") so you know where the information came from.
4. Optionally add a Why It Matters note — your personal reflection on how this value connects to your own experience or what it will mean day-to-day.
5. Click Save.

Values are displayed as cards. Click the edit icon on any card to update it, or the delete icon to remove it.

Tip: Use the "Why It Matters" field to draft a sentence or two you could use verbatim in an interview. "I was drawn to your focus on X because in my previous role I..."

News Sub-tab

Save and annotate news articles, press releases, earnings reports, and anything else relevant to this company's current situation.

To add an article:

1. Click Add Article.
2. Enter the Headline and a Summary of the key points.
3. Optionally add the article URL (it will become a clickable link on the card), the Published Date, and the Source (e.g., "TechCrunch", "Company Blog").
4. Optionally add a Why It Matters note — your strategic interpretation. For example: "They just raised a Series C, which suggests aggressive hiring in the next 12 months" or "Restructuring the APAC division could mean the role I'm applying for is newly created."
5. Click Save.

Articles are displayed as cards with the headline as a clickable external link. The most recently added articles appear at the top.

Tip: Mentioning a recent news item in an interview — and demonstrating you understand its strategic implications — is one of the most effective ways to stand out. The "Why It Matters" field is your prep space for that.

Interview Prep Sub-tab

Build a bank of company-specific questions to ask during interviews, organised by category.

Categories available:

• Behavioral
• Technical
• Situational
• Company Culture
• Role Specific
• General

To add a question:

1. Click Add Question (or Add [Category] Question from within a category tab).
2. Select the Category.
3. Enter the Question text.
4. Optionally add an Answer / Response — a sample answer if this is a question you expect to be asked, or notes on what you plan to say if it is a question you intend to ask.
5. Optionally add Notes for any additional preparation context.
6. Click Save.

Use the category tabs at the top of the section (All, Behavioral, Technical, etc.) to filter the view. Each tab shows a count of questions in that category.

Tip: Questions in the "Role Specific" category are useful for surfacing things you genuinely want to understand about the position — scope of ownership, team structure, success metrics. Questions in "Company Culture" help you assess whether this is somewhere you actually want to work.

Tab 3: Applications

All job applications you have created for this company, with filters and sorting.

• Filter by status — narrow to a specific stage in the pipeline (Draft, Applied, Interviewing, Offer, etc.).
• Sort by Created Date or Applied Date.
• Click View on any application card to open it.
• Click Create Application to start a new application pre-filled with this company's details.

Tab 4: Contacts

All contacts linked to this company, with a relationship filter.

• Filter by relationship — show only Recruiters, Hiring Managers, etc.
• Click View on any contact card to open their full detail page.
• Click Add Contact to create a new contact pre-linked to this company.

Each contact card shows their name, job title, relationship badge, and clickable email and phone links.

Tab 5: Roles

Career roles from your default career profile that are linked to this company. This tab is read-only — to add or edit roles, navigate to your Career Profile.

Each role card shows:

• Job title and date range (showing "Present" if the role is current)
• Location and industry
• An expandable Key Activities section listing the bullet points associated with that role

This tab is useful for quickly reviewing your own history with a company before an application or interview.

Quick Reference