User Guide: Dashboard & Analytics

This guide explains how to use your personalised Dashboard in Kandid.pro to track your job search progress, gain insights, and make data-driven decisions.

The Benefit: Why Track Your Job Search Analytics?

A job search is a numbers game first — and then it's about finding a way in. Volume gets you into the pool; conversations get you out of it. Your dashboard tracks both, so you can see which one you're actually doing. It helps you:

Visualise Your Progress: See your entire job search activity in one place. Visual charts and metrics help you understand your momentum and stay motivated.
Identify Bottlenecks: Are you sending out lots of applications but not getting interviews? The dashboard makes it easy to see where your funnel is breaking down so you can adjust your strategy.
Make Data-Driven Decisions: Instead of just trying different things, you can see which activities lead to the best results. Is your networking paying off? Are your tailored CVs landing more interviews? The data will tell you.
Stay Organised: The dashboard acts as your daily command centre, showing you upcoming events, follow-up reminders, and high-priority tasks.

How to Use the Dashboard

Your dashboard is the default page you see when you log in. It is composed of tiles that you choose and arrange. You can also create multiple named dashboards — for example, one focused on applications and another on networking.

Available Tiles

There are 19 tiles across six categories. All tiles can be toggled on or off and sized as full-width or half-width.

Overview

Tile	Description
Statistics Cards	At-a-glance summary: total applications, pending review, interviews, and offers.
Quick Actions	Shortcuts to the most common tasks — add an application, log an interaction, create a lead, and more.
Weekly Summary	A digest of your job search activity for the current week, including applications sent, leads contacted, and goals progress.
Today	All calendar events, follow-up reminders, and tasks due today, consolidated in one view.
Momentum	A multi-tab widget that tracks your job search effort over time. See below for details.
Momentum Frequency Heat Map	A GitHub-style yearly heat map in amber shades showing the momentum points you earned each day. Hover any cell for its date and point total. Colour intensity ranges from light amber (1–3 points) through to darkest amber (15+ points). Includes year navigation and a "Best day" stat.

Momentum Tile — Tab Breakdown

The Momentum tile replaces the old Daily Momentum streak counter. It has three tabs:

Tab 1 — Momentum Shows your current momentum score with a trend indicator (rising, falling, or flat) and trend percentage. A trailing average and floor value appear in the top-right corner. Use the time-range selector (1M / 3M / 6M / 12M) to adjust the area chart, which plots your daily momentum score over the selected window. A consistency tracker at the bottom reports "Active X of Y weeks / Z% consistency".

Tab 2 — Investment Displays your cumulative lifetime investment score — a number that never decays because it represents total effort. A this-week vs last-week comparison highlights the delta in green (positive) or red (negative). A stacked horizontal bar breaks your effort into four colour-coded categories:

Volume (indigo) — submitting applications
Depth (amber) — tailoring documents, completing interviews
Contact (emerald) — reaching out to people
Craft (violet) — interview prep, skill work

Each category shows its raw point value.

Tab 3 — Balance Presents the trailing 30-day percentage for each of the four categories as horizontal progress bars. The strongest category is highlighted and the weakest is shown in red, with a contextual coaching tip:

Contact low → "consider reaching out to someone this week"
Craft low → "interview prep or skill work would help here"
Depth low → "tailoring documents or completing interviews adds depth"
Volume low → "submitting applications keeps things moving"

Always visible at the bottom of the card: an AI-generated interpretation providing personalised insight, and an "Open Today View" button linking to your calendar's Today tab.

Applications

Tile	Description
Favourite Applications	Your starred job applications displayed for quick access and status monitoring.
Applications Chart	A bar chart visualising the number of applications created over time, showing overall momentum.
Application Frequency Heat Map	A GitHub-style calendar heat map showing how many applications you submitted on each day of the year. Darker cells mean more activity.
Application Status Flow	A Sankey chart showing how your applications move between stages (e.g., Applied → Interview → Offer). This is your personal conversion funnel.

Leads & Networking

Tile	Description
Lead Pipeline	At-a-glance view of your networking pipeline: hot leads, stale leads, and a breakdown by status.
Lead Funnel Chart	An interactive 5-stage lead conversion funnel with drill-down, showing how your leads are progressing through the networking lifecycle.
Interaction Heatmap	A 7×24 grid showing the days and times you are most active in networking, with sentiment overlay. Helps you understand your own outreach habits.
Stale Lead Report	Identifies and lists leads that have gone quiet, with bulk actions to re-engage them quickly.

Contacts

Tile	Description
Upcoming Contacts	Contacts you need to follow up with, sorted by follow-up date.
Top Companies	The companies you are most engaged with across applications and leads.

Goals & Tasks

Tile	Description
Goals Widget	Tracks progress against your active job search goals with visual progress bars.
Upcoming Tasks	Tasks due today, this week, or this month, drawn from across your applications and leads.

Calendar

Tile	Description
Upcoming Events	Your scheduled interviews, focus time sessions, and meetings for the coming week.

Managing Multiple Dashboards

You can create separate dashboards for different purposes — for example, a daily "At a Glance" dashboard and a deeper "Analytics" dashboard.

Switching Between Dashboards

A dashboard selector badge is displayed at the top of the dashboard page. Click it to open a dropdown showing all your dashboards. Click any name to switch immediately. Your last-selected dashboard is remembered across sessions.

Creating a New Dashboard

Click the "Customise Dashboard" button to open the customisation dialogue.
Click "+ New Dashboard".
Enter a name (up to 50 characters) and confirm.
The new dashboard opens empty, ready for you to add tiles.

Renaming a Dashboard

Open the "Customise Dashboard" dialogue.
Click "Rename" next to the current dashboard name.
Enter the new name and confirm.

Deleting a Dashboard

Open the "Customise Dashboard" dialogue.
Click "Delete" next to the dashboard you want to remove.
Confirm the deletion. The platform will automatically switch you to another dashboard.

You cannot delete your last remaining dashboard.

Customising Your Dashboard Layout

Your dashboard layout is fully customisable. Each dashboard has its own independent layout.

Adding, Removing & Rearranging Tiles

Click "Customise Dashboard" to open the customisation dialogue.
The left panel shows your current layout. The right panel (the Palette) shows all available tiles not yet on your dashboard.
Filter the Palette: Use the category dropdown above the palette to filter tiles by category (Overview, Applications, Leads & Networking, Contacts, Goals & Tasks, Calendar). This makes it easier to find what you're looking for.
Add a tile: Drag it from the palette onto an empty spot in the layout grid.
Remove a tile: Click the ✕ on the tile in the layout preview.
Rearrange tiles: Drag and drop tiles within the layout grid.
Swap tiles: Drag a palette tile directly onto an existing tile to replace it.
Toggle width: Click the expand/collapse icon on a tile to switch it between full-width and half-width.

Your layout is saved automatically as you make changes — there is no separate Save button required.