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title: "Mark Candidates as Favorite"
url: "https://knowledge-base.discovered.ai/en/article/mark-candidates-as-favorite"
language: "en"
last_updated: "2025-09-16T16:04:56.445Z"
---

# Mark Candidates as Favorite

The Candidate Favoriting feature gives recruiters and hiring managers a simple way to highlight standout candidates. Unlike star ratings, favoriting marks a candidate as exceptional or noteworthy without changing their evaluation data.

### **Overview**

With the favoriting feature, you can quickly flag top candidates across jobs. Favorited candidates are visible in candidate profiles, job views, communication logs, and even on your dashboard.

## **How to Favorite a Candidate:**

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### **1\. From Candidate Preview**

-   Go to **Job Posts** in the navigation bar.
-   Click **Published.**

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-   Open any job.

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-   Click the candidate’s profile.

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-   Next to the star ratings, click the **heart icon**.
-   The candidate is now marked as “Favorited.”

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### **2\. From the Full Candidate Profile**

-   Click **Open full profile**.

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-   The **heart icon** appears there as well.

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-   Click the **heart icon** to favorite the candidate.

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### **3\. View Favoriting Activity**

-   In the candidate’s **Communication tab**, you’ll see an event logged whenever someone favorites the candidate. This helps teams know who flagged the candidate.

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### **4\. Viewing Favorited Candidates**

-   **Within a Job**: On the candidate list, use the filter **Show Only Favorite Candidates** to narrow results.

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-   **On the Dashboard**: A dedicated **Favorited Candidates widget** compiles all favorited candidates across all jobs.

## **Why This Matters**

Previously, recruiters relied only on ratings or notes to highlight strong candidates. Favoriting adds an easy, visual way to:

-   Flag a standout applicant in a crowded pipeline.
-   Show clients or colleagues which candidates you recommend.
-   Quickly filter and view favorited candidates across jobs.

## **Use Cases**

-   You’re working on a role with 100+ applicants and want to easily identify your top 2–3.
-   Your client requests a shortlist of their “favorites” without editing the original candidate data.
-   You want a dashboard view of the best candidates across all jobs.

## **Best Practices**

-   Use favoriting alongside ratings to give a fuller picture of candidate quality.
-   Make favoriting part of your client-facing workflow if you recruit on their behalf.
-   Regularly review the dashboard widget to ensure standout candidates aren’t overlooked.

## **What Happens Next**

Favorited candidates remain tagged until you remove the favorite. As fixes roll out, the candidate-level filter will also work on the **Candidates page**, providing an even more powerful way to manage your pipeline.