A quick overview of the core ideas behind SnapHire Analytics.

All table and column descriptions, metadata and table relationships can be found in the SnapHire Analytics Data Map.

Overview

SnapHire Analytics is the reporting and insights layer within SnapHire. It is SnapHire’s embedded analytics solution, giving you direct, intuitive access to all your recruitment data. With just a few clicks, you can answer any question about your hiring activity - from application trends to offer performance and hiring outcomes.


SnapHire Analytics is your central hub for reporting and insights. You can start with pre‑built, ready‑to‑use templates, or your analytics users can create fully custom visualizations tailored to your organisation’s needs.


In SnapHire Analytics you have access to all your raw data so you can choose to dive deep and investigate low level metrics based on custom questions, workflow fields, categories or you can roll your results up and build visualisations. The sky is the limit once you know how to navigate and use the platform!


Teams use SnapHire Analytics to:

  • Ask questions of their recruitment data
  • Build dashboards and reports
  • Standardise key metrics
  • Share insights with hiring managers and stakeholders
  • Empower users to explore data on their own


Whether you’re transitioning from another BI tool or starting fresh, SnapHire Analytics gives you a clean, intuitive way to work with your data.



What you can do with SnapHire Analytics

SnapHire Analytics allows you to:

  • Build queries using a visual question builder

  • Save queries as Questions and organise them into dashboards and collections

  • Create reusable Metrics in the form of models to standardise calculations

  • Share insights through dashboards, documents, and scheduled reports

  • Publish reports to for other users to view and interact with within SnapHire

Core Concepts

SnapHire Analytics includes a set of building blocks that make up the analytics experience:

  • Questions — Saved queries paired with a visualization

  • Dashboards — Collections of related questions arranged in a layout

  • Documents — Narrative-style reports combining text and charts

  • Collections — Folder-like structures for organising content and managing access

  • Models — Custom or pre-built questions that act as tables within SnapHire Analytics. Unlike normal questions, models can be used just like a source table in a question

  • Subscriptions— Scheduled emails set on a dashboard

  • Alerts— Scheduled emails set to either trigger on an event of a question or used to email a question on a schedule

Questions

A Question is a saved query plus its chosen visualization. A question is a query that contains the blueprint to retrieving your data. It is the starting point to accessing the raw data. The word question and card get used interchangeably. Once a question is added to a dashboard it is referred to as a card. You can build and save questions straight in a dashboard or in a collection. You can switch between a table and a chart at any time.


Questions can:

  • Trigger alerts when data meets certain conditions using alerts

  • Be exported to CSV, XLSX, JSON, or PNG

  • Be reused in dashboards, documents, or other questions

The question builder lets you create questions. You can:

  • Select tables and fields

  • Filter and sort data

  • Group and summarise results

  • Join tables

  • Add custom expressions

  • Build interactive charts

Dashboards

Dashboards let you bring multiple questions together into a single view.

With dashboards, you can:

  • Arrange charts and tables in a meaningful layout

  • Add filters that update multiple cards at once

  • Include text blocks for context

  • Make charts interactive

  • Schedule dashboard delivery via email using subscriptions

Documents

Documents are narrative-style reports that combine charts with written commentary. They’re ideal for:

  • Monthly recruitment summaries

  • Executive reporting

  • Explaining trends and insights

Collections

Collections act like folders within SnapHire Analytics. They allow you to:

  • Organise questions, dashboards and documents

  • Group content by team or topic

  • Nest collections inside one another

Subscriptions

Subscriptions are simply scheduled emails set on a dashboard. It can be scheduled monthly, weekly, daily etc. You can set the filters available on your dashboard in your subscription to limit the data you send. You can also set up multiple subscriptions on the same dashboard.

Alerts

The real purpose of alerts is to send an email when a question contains data or to send out an alert when a certain data event occurs. Alerts can also be used as a schedule/subscription if a question always has data, but we recommend always adding your questions to dashboards and rather setting up subscriptions as this is easier to keep track of.