# How to make a decision on a candidate in Truffle > Record a decision on a Truffle candidate from the Decide menu, with Magic Review keys, or for many at once, and see what each decision changes. Source: https://www.hiretruffle.com/how-it-works/guides/make-a-decision Last verified against the product: 2026-10-05 Time required: 5 min Every screenshot and label below was captured from the live product. **Outcome.** By the end you can advance, hold, reject or hire a candidate from the list, decide with one key in Magic Review, clear a decision, decide on several candidates at once, and you know what each decision changes and that none of them emails the candidate. ## Before you start - A Truffle account. The 7-day free trial works: 30 credits, no credit card. - A position with candidates who have finished their screening. ## Steps ### 1. Start on For Review Open a position from **Positions**. The candidate list opens on **For Review**: everyone who has finished screening and has no decision yet. Here that is three candidates for a Sales Development Representative role. Each row ends in a **Decide** control. ### 2. Open the Decide menu Choose **Decide** on a row. The menu offers **Advance**, **Hold**, **Reject** and **Hire**. **Clear decision** sits under a line, for taking a decision back off. ### 3. Advance a candidate Choose **Advance**. The candidate leaves **For Review** straight away and the tab counts change, here to **For Review** 2 and **Reviewed** 1. Hold and Reject work the same way. ### 4. Find decided candidates on Reviewed Open **Reviewed**. It adds a **STATUS** column with the decision: **Advanced**, **On hold**, **Rejected** or **Hired**. The status is a control too: click it to open the same menu and change the decision, or choose **Clear decision** to send the candidate back to For Review. > Note: On a candidate's full profile, the status control at the top right opens the same menu. ### 5. Decide with one key in Magic Review Choose **Focus view** to open Magic Review. The action bar shows each decision with its key: **Advance** (A), **Hold** (H) and **Reject** (R). Pressing the key does the same as clicking the button, for the candidate on screen. ### 6. Keep going after each decision Press H and Truffle confirms it, here **Dana Okafor moved to On hold**, with **Undo** in the message. On For Review, the decided candidate leaves the list and the next one opens, so you can work down the list one key at a time. ### 7. Clear a decision with Backspace Decided candidates are on **Reviewed**, in Magic Review too. Open one and the action bar adds **Clear** with the Backspace key next to the three decisions. The candidate's status shows next to their name, here **On hold**. ### 8. See the cleared candidate return Press Backspace. Truffle confirms **Cleared the decision on Dana Okafor**, and the candidate goes back to **For Review**. ### 9. Select several candidates Back in the list, tick the box on each candidate you want to decide on. A bar appears at the bottom of the screen with the count, here **2 selected**, a **Decide** menu and **More**. ### 10. Decide on all of them at once The bar's **Decide** menu has **Advance**, **Hold**, **Reject**, **Hire** and **Clear decisions**. Pick one and it applies to every selected candidate. Truffle confirms how many changed, for example **2 rejected**. ### 11. Delete from the same bar **More** on the bar holds **Delete selected**. Truffle asks first and says what goes: all of the candidates' data on this position, including recordings, assessment results and notes. **This action cannot be undone.** Choose **Cancel** to keep them. ### 12. Check every status on Reviewed **Reviewed** now lists each decided candidate with their status. Here Morgan Ellis is **Advanced** and the other two are **Rejected**, while **For Review** is empty. ### 13. Mark a hire Choose **Hire** from the menu. Truffle asks you to confirm, **Hire Morgan Ellis?**, and you choose **Confirm hire**. ### 14. After the hire The status reads **Hired** and a message says **Candidate hired!** with **Close the position?** if you have filled the role. Hired is final in the list: the row no longer has a status control. > Note: Hire is not in Magic Review. Use the Decide menu or the status control. ## FAQ **Does Truffle email the candidate when I make a decision?** No. Advance, Hold, Reject, Hire and Clear decision change the candidate's status in Truffle and nothing else. Tell the candidate yourself. **Where does a candidate go after a decision?** From For Review to Reviewed. The Reviewed tab shows the decision in its Status column. Clearing the decision sends the candidate back to For Review. **Can I undo a decision?** Yes. Choose Clear decision from the status menu, or press Backspace in Magic Review. In Magic Review, the message after each decision also has Undo. **Can I change a hire?** Hired is final in the candidate list: the row has no status control once a candidate is hired. **Does the AI make any decisions?** No. Every decision is yours. Scores never advance, hold or reject anyone. The only automatic rejection is a qualification check you set to Reject automatically. ## Exact labels in the product These strings are captured from the live product and verified automatically, so they can be quoted directly: `For Review` · `Reviewed` · `Decide` · `Advance` · `Hold` · `Reject` · `Hire` · `Clear decision` · `STATUS` · `Advanced` · `Rejected` · `Hired` · `Focus view` · `List view` · `Dana Okafor moved to On hold` · `Undo` · `On hold` · `Clear ⌫` · `Cleared the decision on Dana Okafor` · `2 selected` · `More` · `Clear decisions` · `Delete selected` · `This action cannot be undone.` · `2 rejected` · `Hire Morgan Ellis?` · `Confirm hire` · `Candidate hired!` · `Close the position?` ## Video How to review candidates and decide who moves forward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XArI94cViu8 - 0:00 The candidate list and its signals - 0:16 Magic Review - 0:37 Decide: Advance, Hold, Reject or Hire - 0:55 What happens next Transcript: Here's how to review a position's candidates in one pass, and decide who moves on. Open a position's candidates. Each row shows its signals. Resume, interview, and assessments, rolled into one overall read. Switch to Focus view for Magic Review. One candidate at a time, with the list beside you. Candidate shorts pull the key moments from their interview, and show why each one matters. Criteria coverage shows how they match each of your criteria. Then read the summary, with the key insights. When you're ready, open Decide. Advance, hold, reject, or hire. Choose Advance, and they move to Reviewed. In Focus view, one key does the same, and the next candidate opens. Every candidate, ranked against your criteria, with the reasons shown. Every decision is yours. Start free at hiretruffle.com. ## Related - https://www.hiretruffle.com/how-it-works/reviewing - https://www.hiretruffle.com/how-it-works/statuses-and-emails - https://www.hiretruffle.com/how-it-works/guides/review-candidates-in-magic-review - https://www.hiretruffle.com/how-it-works/guides/share-a-candidate --- Truffle is an AI screening platform for small teams doing high-volume hiring: resume screening, one-way video interviews, and talent assessments, working with job boards like Indeed or an existing ATS. AI surfaces the evidence and you make every decision. Scores never reject a candidate; the only automatic rejection is a qualification rule the employer writes. https://www.hiretruffle.com