Recruiter Onboarding

• Go to cqar.aecho.ai and click Get Started in the top-right.
• Enter your work email and a password.
• Verify the one-time passcode that lands in your inbox.
• You'll land on the dashboard with an empty pipeline, ready to define your first role.

• Dashboard (home): the kanban board for the selected role — switch roles from the dropdown, drag candidates between stages, Shift+click cards to compare, and copy the apply link from the role strip.
• Candidates: every candidate across every role in one triage table — filter chips for awaiting review, high fit, stalled, and incomplete, plus cross-role compare.
• Roles: search all roles by name, department, or type, filter Active/Inactive in one click, then open a role for its health header and Details, Candidates, and Questions tabs.
• Analytics: funnel conversion, grade distribution, and per-role health across the whole account.
• Header search: jump to any candidate or role instantly. Settings and Sign out sit at the bottom of the sidebar.

• Click Create New Role at the top of the pipeline.
• Pick AI Assistant from the three choices.
• Answer five plain-English questions: title & team, responsibilities, qualifications, culture, and traits that matter.
• CQAR drafts the full role — title, description, criteria, screening questions, adaptive-interview plan. You review and adjust in the wizard.

• Job title and department. Be specific — "Senior Backend Engineer, Platform team".
• Key responsibilities. Bullet what the person will own day-to-day.
• Qualifications you need. Stack, years, certifications, must-haves.
• Team culture and work style. Collaborative? Autonomous? Fast-paced?
• Traits that matter for success. Communication, ownership, attention to detail.

• Pick Use a Template from the Create New Role modal.
• Browse 50 ready-made roles across 15 families — Engineering, Legal, Healthcare, Finance, Sales, Operations, Retail & Hospitality, and more.
• Templates ship with sensible defaults for screening questions, adaptive-interview depth, and criteria weights.
• Edit any field after selection — the template is a head start, not a lock-in.

• Pick Start from Scratch to walk through every wizard step yourself.
• Nine steps: Basic Role Information → Role Description → Interview Format → Pre-Screen Filters (your knockout questions) → Screening → Assessments → Personality Assessment → Evaluation Weights → Review & Publish.
• You can save a partially-built role and return to it later — incomplete roles are flagged in the roles list.
• Once saved, the role is treated identically regardless of how you started it.

• After Save, the dialog shows the apply link with a Copy button.
• To re-share later, open the role's Details tab — the link sits at the top.
• Pasted into LinkedIn, Slack, or a job board, the link unfurls into a branded CQAR preview card.
• Candidates land on a branded apply page, upload a resume, and accept the informed-participation disclosure before any AI evaluation starts.
• Their card appears in Applied and moves through the pipeline automatically as they complete each stage.

• Adaptive Interview-only role: Applied → Interview → Offer → Hired.
• Screening-only role: Applied → Screening → Assessment → Offer → Hired.
• Screening + Adaptive Interview role: Applied → Screening → Assessment → Interview → Offer → Hired.
• Rejected and Stalled are always available as side bins.
• Cards show name, applied date, current grade chip, and a status dot.

• System-driven (fill from candidate actions): Screening, Assessment, and Interview — plus candidates who fail a knockout filter are auto-routed to Rejected.
• HR-driven (you drag the card): Offer, Hired, Rejected, and Stalled.
• The audit trail records every transition with timestamp, actor, and reason if provided.
• Nudge candidates who haven't started with Invite Candidates on the role's Details tab.
• Want to hear a screening-only candidate live? Once they've completed their screening, open their card and use Move to Interview to promote them into an interview-enabled role — no restart, no duplicate work.

• Moving a candidate to Rejected or On Hold opens a dialog with a pre-drafted email to that candidate.
• The subject and body are fully editable — it's your message, in your words, with CQAR's styling applied automatically.
• Not ready to notify? Move without email does the stage change silently. Nothing ever sends without your say-so.
• Add your company logo and a custom intro line under Settings → Candidate emails — a live preview shows exactly what candidates will see.

• New-candidate emails: you get an email when a candidate applies to one of your roles. On by default — toggle it under Settings → Notifications.
• In-app bell: the header bell collects new-candidate events plus role-deadline alerts (approaching and passed) so you can catch up after time away.
• Candidate-email branding: the logo and intro you set in Settings apply to every candidate email, with a live preview as you type.

• Overview — composite grade, fit %, top strengths and concerns.
• Interview Analysis — the adaptive-interview responses, with the moment each grade was awarded.
• Resume Match — résumé claims cross-referenced with demonstrated knowledge.
• Personality — the trait categories with evidence quotes.
• Assessment — per-criterion rubric scores against the role's criteria.
• Plus Screening, Pre-Screening, Session Integrity, and Survey when the role includes them.

• On the Candidates tab, tick 2–6 candidates — across any roles — to select them. On the board, Shift+click cards does the same.
• Click Compare in the action bar to open the comparison overlay.
• Head-to-head view: a top-pick callout, the dimensions where candidates differ most, voice character, and what each one brings.
• Radar view: overlay chart across the scored dimensions.
• Open any candidate's report from the comparison to drill in without losing context.

• Open Analytics from the left sidebar.
• Funnel: Applied → Screening → Assessment → Interview → Offer conversion rates (the funnel shows whichever stages the role actually uses).
• Grade distribution: how strong the applicant pool is for each role.
• Pace: time spent in each stage and where candidates stall.
• Use Settings for your profile, appearance, notification preferences, candidate-email branding, and assessment credits. Settings and Sign out sit at the bottom of the left sidebar.

Read How CQAR Works for the full product narrative, or send candidates to the Candidate Guide before their assessment. Questions? [email protected].