> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.spott.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Managing candidates > A tour of the candidate profile: the tabs, the details side panel, and the quick actions you can take from one place. The candidate profile brings everything about one person together: their experience, conversations, files, and AI context. This page walks you through it. Every person exists only **once** in Spott. Someone can be a candidate, a client contact, or both, and their notes and history stay on the same record even when they change companies or roles. The **Add as contact** button on a profile adds the contact role to the same person. It does not create a copy. ## Open a candidate profile Go to the **Candidates** page in the left menu and click a candidate's name. The header shows the candidate's name, role, company, and contact details. Below it, the profile is organized into three tabs: * **Overview**: all information about the person. * **Candidate**: their applications and placements. See [tracking applications](/docs/candidates/candidate-applications). * **Inbox**: the full message history, across all channels. A candidate profile opened on the Summary subtab ## Quick actions In the top right corner of the profile you find: * The candidate's **LinkedIn profile**. * **Present**, to share the candidate with a client. * The **Actions** menu: send an email, send a calendar invite, add to a job, add to a list, add a task, add a note, enroll in a campaign, or merge two people. The Actions menu on a candidate profile ## The Overview tab The Overview tab has a row of subtabs on the left and a side panel on the right. ### Summary Your starting point. Based on the whole profile, Spott shows: * **Suggested field updates** picked up from recent conversations or emails. You can accept or reject each one. * A short **AI summary** of the candidate. * **Salary expectations**. * **Candidate sentiment**, based on recent conversations. * **Upcoming meetings**. ### Notes Add and track notes about the candidate or one of their applications. With the Spott Notetaker enabled, meetings are transcribed and summarized into a note automatically. Notes also serve as context for the AI features. ### Experience The candidate's skills, work experience, and education, with tenure statistics. This information can be entered manually, parsed from a CV, or imported from LinkedIn with the Chrome extension. The Experience subtab with the update buttons at the top The buttons at the top keep the profile up to date: * **Request updated CV**: send the candidate a link to upload their latest CV. * **Update with new CV**: upload a newer CV yourself. Spott compares it with the profile and only applies what changed. * **Check for updates**: refresh the profile from LinkedIn. * **Generate CV**: create a formatted CV in your agency's template. Read more in [updating a candidate profile](/docs/candidates/update-profile-from-cv). ### Communication Your message history with the candidate on **email**, **linked emails**, and **WhatsApp**, and a quick way to reply without leaving the profile. The Communication subtab with the channel history Synchronisation works in both directions. Messages sent outside Spott also show up here, and vice versa. For the full-screen version, open the **Inbox** tab. ### Files Files attached to the candidate, such as their CV. Click the three dots next to a CV to **generate a formatted CV**, so every CV you share with clients follows the same template. ### Tasks Follow-up actions for this candidate. Assign them to yourself or a teammate, set due dates, and track completion. ### Consent Track the candidate's **consents** (GDPR and other compliance requirements, with type, source, and validity period) and **marketing opt-outs** to exclude them from marketing emails. This subtab appears when consent tracking is enabled for your workspace. See [GDPR consent management](/docs/settings/gdpr-consent). ### References Log references for the candidate and add comments per reference. The referee must already exist as a person in Spott. ## The side panel ### Details All the candidate's fields: contact details, location, languages, availability, salary expectation, and any custom fields your workspace uses. Click **Show all values** to see every field. The Details side panel Like the Experience subtab, these values can be entered manually, parsed from a CV, or imported from LinkedIn. In Settings you can create new fields, reorder them, and choose which ones show by default. ### Activity A timeline of every change to the profile and its applications, with who made each change. ### Ask AI A personal agent that knows the whole profile: details, experience, notes, emails, and applications. Ask it things like: * "Summarize the situation with this candidate." * "Give me an application overview." * "What should I do next with this candidate?" ## Good to know * **No duplicates.** An email address, phone number, or LinkedIn URL can belong to only one person in the whole database. If a CV or import matches an existing person, Spott updates that person instead of creating a copy. * **Phone numbers use international format** (for example `+32...`). Spott validates this on entry. It keeps deduplication, enrichment, and calling integrations reliable. * **Checking who owns an identifier?** Paste the email address or phone number into global search (`⌘K` / `Ctrl+K`) to find the person it belongs to. * **The Source field** records where a candidate came from, not their current status, and is not editable. * **Bulk delete** handles up to 1,000 candidates at a time. * **You cannot reuse your own login email** on a candidate record. * **Profile photos** can be uploaded manually on a candidate profile. * **WhatsApp on the Communication tab stays private to each user**, so a colleague's WhatsApp threads are not visible to the rest of the team.