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Get Candidate

Retrieve a candidate by its ID.

External Documentation

To learn more, visit the Greenhouse documentation.

Parameters

ParameterDescription
Candidate IDThe ID of the candidate to retrieve. Can be obtained by using the List Candidates action.

Example Output

{
"id": 53883394,
"first_name": "John",
"last_name": "Locke",
"company": "The Tustin Box Company",
"title": "Customer Success Representative",
"created_at": "2017-08-15T03:31:46.591Z",
"updated_at": "2017-09-28T12:29:30.497Z",
"last_activity": "2017-09-28T12:29:30.481Z",
"is_private": false,
"photo_url": null,
"attachments": [
{
"filename": "John_Locke_Offer_Packet_09_27_2017.pdf",
"url": "https://prod-heroku.s3.amazonaws.com/...",
"type": "offer_packet",
"created_at": "2020-09-27T18:45:27.137Z"
}
],
"application_ids": [
69102626,
65153308
],
"phone_numbers": [
{
"value": "555-555-5555",
"type": "mobile"
}
],
"addresses": [
{
"value": "123 City Street\nNew York, Ny 10001",
"type": "home"
}
],
"email_addresses": [
{
"value": "test@work.com",
"type": "work"
},
{
"value": "test@example.com",
"type": "personal"
}
],
"website_addresses": [
{
"value": "mysite.com",
"type": "personal"
}
],
"social_media_addresses": [
{
"value": "twitter.com/test"
}
],
"recruiter": {
"id": 92120,
"first_name": "Greenhouse",
"last_name": "Admin",
"name": "Greenhouse Admin",
"employee_id": "67890"
},
"coordinator": {
"id": 453636,
"first_name": "Jane",
"last_name": "Smith",
"name": "Jane Smith",
"employee_id": "12345"
},
"can_email": true,
"tags": [
"Python",
"Ruby"
],
"applications": [
{
"id": 69102626,
"candidate_id": 53883394,
"prospect": false,
"applied_at": "2017-09-27T12:03:02.728Z",
"rejected_at": "2017-09-27T12:11:40.877Z",
"last_activity_at": "2017-09-28T12:29:30.481Z",
"location": {
"address": "New York, New York, USA"
},
"source": {
"id": 16,
"public_name": "LinkedIn (Prospecting)"
},
"credited_to": {
"id": 165372,
"first_name": "Joel",
"last_name": "Job Admin",
"name": "Joel Job Admin",
"employee_id": null
},
"rejection_reason": {
"id": 9504,
"name": "Hired another candidate",
"type": {
"id": 1,
"name": "We rejected them"
}
},
"rejection_details": {
"custom_fields": {
"custom_rejection_question_field": null
},
"keyed_custom_fields": {
"custom_rejection_question_field": {
"name": "Custom Rejection Question Field",
"type": "short_text",
"value": null
}
}
},
"jobs": [
{
"id": 149995,
"name": "DevOps Engineer"
}
],
"job_post_id": 123,
"status": "rejected",
"current_stage": {
"id": 1073533,
"name": "Take Home Test"
},
"answers": [
{
"question": "How did you hear about this job?",
"answer": "A friend"
},
{
"question": "Website",
"answer": "https://example.com"
},
{
"question": "LinkedIn Profile",
"answer": "https://linkedin.com/example"
}
],
"prospective_office": null,
"prospective_department": null,
"prospect_detail": {
"prospect_pool": null,
"prospect_stage": null,
"prospect_owner": null
},
"attachments": [
{
"filename": "John_Locke_Offer_Packet_09_27_2017.pdf",
"url": "https://prod-heroku.s3.amazonaws.com/...",
"type": "offer_packet",
"created_at": "2020-09-27T18:45:27.137Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 65153308,
"candidate_id": 53883394,
"prospect": false,
"applied_at": "2017-08-15T03:31:46.637Z",
"rejected_at": null,
"last_activity_at": "2017-09-28T12:29:30.481Z",
"location": {
"address": "New York, New York, United States"
},
"source": {
"id": 12,
"public_name": "Meetups"
},
"credited_to": {
"id": 566819,
"first_name": "Bob",
"last_name": "Smith",
"name": "Bob Smith",
"employee_id": null
},
"rejection_reason": null,
"rejection_details": null,
"jobs": [
{
"id": 299100,
"name": "Data Scientist - BK"
}
],
"job_post_id": 456,
"status": "active",
"current_stage": {
"id": 2966800,
"name": "Face to Face"
},
"answers": [],
"prospective_office": null,
"prospective_department": null,
"prospect_detail": {
"prospect_pool": null,
"prospect_stage": null,
"prospect_owner": null
},
"attachments": []
}
],
"educations": [
{
"id": 561227,
"school_name": "University of Michigan - Ann Arbor",
"degree": "Bachelor's Degree",
"discipline": "Computer Science",
"start_date": "2012-08-15T00:00:00.000Z",
"end_date": "2016-05-15T00:00:00.000Z"
}
],
"employments": [
{
"id": 8485064,
"company_name": "Greenhouse",
"title": "Engineer",
"start_date": "2012-08-15T00:00:00.000Z",
"end_date": "2016-05-15T00:00:00.000Z"
}
],
"linked_user_ids": [
989604
],
"custom_fields": {
"desired_salary": "1000000000",
"work_remotely": true,
"graduation_year": "2018"
},
"keyed_custom_fields": {
"desired_salary": {
"name": "Desired Salary",
"type": "short_text",
"value": "1000000000"
},
"work_remotely": {
"name": "Work Remotely",
"type": "boolean",
"value": true
},
"graduation_year_1": {
"name": "Graduation Year",
"type": "single_select",
"value": "2018"
}
}
}

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