Details, skill matches and internal comments in one expanded row.
Application review now organises each applicant into compact tabs inside their own row, covering details, skill matches and internal comments. Match strength is colour-coded, statuses can be updated in bulk, and every change is recorded. Outplacement consultants and bootcamp careers teams stop working out of a spreadsheet.
What application review looks like now
Reviewing applicants used to mean holding three things in your head at once, who the person is, how well they fit, and what a colleague already said about them. Those now live together.
- Details, skill matches and internal comments sit in compact tabs within each expanded applicant row.
- Skill match counts are colour-coded by match strength, so fit is scannable rather than something you calculate.
- Counts open their own detail tab directly, so checking why someone scored well is one click.
- Selected applicants can have their status updated in bulk.
- Every change is recorded in the activity history.
- Members see the other side of it, filtering their applications by whether the role is open or closed, and whether they applied directly or through an external link.
What it means for your community
Applicants get decisions rather than silence. Most of the delay in a small hiring process is not deliberation, it is admin, and a review screen that makes moving twenty people forward a single action removes the most common reason people are left waiting.
For an outplacement provider that matters commercially. Time to placement drives client satisfaction and contract renewal, and candidates are at their least resilient during a transition. Being able to see who is progressing and move a shortlist forward in one go means consultants spend their attention on the people who have stalled.
A skills bootcamp is judged on placement rate by funders, learners and accreditors, and internal comments do quiet work there. When a careers lead notes that a learner interviews well but undersells their portfolio, that note travels with the applicant instead of living in one person's memory, which matters when the person who wrote it is on leave.
What it means for your team
Reviewing becomes a shared activity rather than a handover. Internal comments sit against the applicant, visible to the colleagues who need them and never to the applicant, so a second opinion does not require a meeting or a forwarded email thread.
Colour-coded match strength is the part that changes how a queue feels. A list of fifty applicants where fit is immediately visible is triaged in minutes, and the counts are only as good as the vocabulary underneath them, which is why a curated custom skills catalogue pays off here. The activity history then gives you an audit trail, and the totals show up in member analytics alongside applications and placements.
If you want progress tracked per application rather than in aggregate, Application Status Tracking is an add-on at £40 per month, listed on the pricing page and correct as at July 2026.
The member-side filters are worth knowing about even though your team never uses them. When someone can see at a glance which of their applications are still open and which have closed, the questions arriving in your inbox change shape. Fewer are requests for a status update, and more are the ones actually worth a consultant's time, about what to do next.
The same is true of showing whether an application went through the board or out to an external site. Roles can send applicants to your existing form or applicant tracking system instead of collecting applications here, and where that happens the outcome is not yours to report on. Making that visible to the member sets the expectation correctly rather than leaving them waiting for a response that was never going to arrive from you.
Can applicants see internal comments?
No. Internal comments are for your team only and are never shown to the applicant. They sit in their own tab alongside details and skill matches so a reviewer has everything in one row, but the applicant sees only their application and its status. That separation is what makes them useful, because a note worth writing is often one you would not put in a message to the candidate.
Getting started
Applicant review is on each role, under the applicants view, where expanding a row reveals the tabs. There is nothing to enable. The marketplace admin guide covers reviewing and managing applications, and the knowledge base answers questions about statuses. The change is recorded in the applicant review changelog entry.
If reviewing volume is your bottleneck, the job board for outplacement services and job board for skills bootcamps pages cover the workflow further. Spacewalk runs a 14-day free trial with no credit card required.