Color dots are user-specific, similar to a shopping basket, and are designed to manage short-term candidate selections for bulk operations.
Color dots allow you to keep candidate selections for a few hours without losing your selection if you are interrupted by an interview or a phone call.
Then, you can use the Filter by Dot and Select all candidates functions to move an entire group of candidates to a different stage in a single operation.
Similarly, the bold appearance of unread applications is specific to each user. Tracking the processing of applications should be done by changing the candidates' stage. This information is shared by all users and allows you to have:
More detailed tracking of each application's status, by date, recruiter, and reason.
A quick overview of each job's status in the job list using the Start, In Progress, End columns. Jobs where applications are properly processed should have almost no applications counted in the "Start" column.
Candidate searches by past or current stage—for example, to find a candidate who has already been interviewed.
Accurate reporting data.