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 successful job search is a numbers game. By tracking your activity and outcomes, you can move from "guessing" to "knowing" what works. Your dashboard 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 18 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. |
| Daily Momentum | Tracks your daily activity streak and momentum score, encouraging consistent effort. |
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.