Add a comment to a candidate

Last updated: June 19, 2026

Comments are how your team thinks out loud about a candidate without the candidate ever seeing it — the "loop in a colleague," "here's my read," "let's discuss" layer of hiring. They're internal notes, never shown to the candidate, and they appear in the candidate's activity timeline under the Comments filter so the conversation stays attached to the person it's about.

Writing a comment

Open the candidate, write your note in the comment box ("Add an internal comment. Use @ to tag a colleague."), and choose Add comment. To change a comment you wrote, edit it and choose Update comment.

Attaching a scorecard (an evaluation)

A comment can also carry a scorecard: toggle New comment → New scorecard to rate the candidate against the job's qualifiers (and add a note per qualifier), then Submit evaluation. This is how you put a human score on the record next to the AI's — useful right after an interview. If the job has no scorecard yet you'll see "No scorecard set up for this job post." See Candidate evaluation & screening.

Good to know. A comment is the right tool for anything decision-shaping you want the team to see but the candidate never should — interview impressions, salary context, reservations. To reach the candidate, send a message instead (see Communication & messaging).