What is the Hiring Manager Review?
The Hiring Manager Review (called Executive Review in Hirex) lets you share selected candidates with a reviewer a colleague or someone outside your company so they can evaluate profiles and submit a Go/No Go decision.
Reviewers get a dedicated, secure link. They see only the candidates assigned to them and a focused view of each profile: CV, scorecards, video interviews, assessments, and reference checks.
Sending Candidates to a Reviewer
Open a job posting and go to the Applications view.
Select one or more candidates using their checkboxes.
Click Send to Review in the bulk action bar.
Fill in the review form (details below) and click Send to Review.
A review session is created and the reviewer receives an email with their secure link.
The Review Form
Reviewer type
Choose between two types of reviewers:
Type | Who it's for |
Team member | A colleague who already has a Hirex account in your organization |
Guest reviewer | Someone outside your organization enter their name and email. Hirex creates a limited guest account with no access to the rest of the platform. |
Guest reviewers can open only the review session they were invited to. They cannot browse jobs, candidates, or any other part of Hirex.
Candidate summaries
Before sending, you can add a private note for each candidate context or talking points the reviewer should know. Expand a candidate's row in the form to type a summary.
Reminder
Set a Remind after X days option to send the reviewer an automatic follow-up email if they haven't submitted their decision yet.
Custom email
Toggle Customize Email to personalize the message sent to the reviewer. You can change the subject, body, and insert variables (candidate name, job title, etc.).
What the Reviewer Sees
The reviewer opens their link and lands on a split-screen review page:
Left panel candidate list showing all assigned candidates. Reviewed candidates are greyed out.
Right panel the selected candidate's full profile:
CV viewer the candidate's CV displayed directly in the browser
Summary optional note from the HR team
Scorecards interviewer ratings and notes
Video interviews recorded video interview responses
Assessments test results from integrated assessment tools
Reference checks submitted reference responses
Activities timeline of candidate interactions
On mobile, the reviewer sees a tabbed interface: CV tab and Candidate tab, with navigation arrows to move between candidates.
Submitting a Decision
After reviewing a candidate's profile, the reviewer selects a decision from the evaluation bar at the top of the right panel:
Decision | Meaning |
Go | The reviewer recommends moving this candidate forward |
No Go | The reviewer does not recommend this candidate |
Hold | The reviewer is unsure — wants to revisit |
Once a decision is submitted, the candidate is marked as reviewed in the list. The HR team can see all decisions from the application's timeline in Hirex.
Tracking Review Progress
From the application detail page in Hirex, you can see:
All active review sessions and their status
Each reviewer's decision and any notes they submitted
Whether the reviewer has opened the link yet
You can also send a reminder or re-request a review from the same section.