The Stage Movement Breakdown report shows how many times candidates have moved between stages in your job pipelines. Use it to understand where candidates are progressing, stalling, or being skipped — and to spot patterns in your team's recruiting workflow.
Access it from Reports → Stage Movement Breakdown.
Fill Skip Overs vs. Actual
The report has two counting modes, selectable from the dropdown at the top of the report.
Fill Skip Overs
When a candidate is moved directly to a later stage — skipping intermediate stages — Fill Skip Overs counts it as if the candidate passed through every stage in between. This gives you a view of theoretical pipeline throughput, including stages that were bypassed.
Example: A candidate is moved from Stage 1 straight to Stage 4, skipping Stages 2 and 3. Fill Skip Overs counts a movement through Stages 2, 3, and 4.
Actual
Actual counts only the stages where candidates truly landed. Skipped stages are not counted. This gives you a more accurate picture of which stages your team is actively using.
Example: Same candidate moved from Stage 1 to Stage 4. Actual counts only Stage 4.
When to use each mode
Use Fill Skip Overs when you want to understand total pipeline activity, including stages that candidates moved through implicitly.
Use Actual when you want to audit which stages are genuinely being used and where candidates are truly spending time.
Things to know
Stage movements are counted per job pipeline, not globally across jobs.
Backwards movements (e.g., moving a candidate from Stage 4 back to Stage 2) are also captured.
The report respects any date filters you apply — useful for comparing activity across time periods.
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