Hiring manager portal
Share the shortlist with your client, not the CRM behind it
When a hiring manager wants to review your candidates, you should not have to email a PDF or hand over a login to your whole workspace. Leonar's hiring manager portal shares one project pipeline with the client, on a separate login, with view or feedback access set per person. They see the shortlist. Your other clients, your deals, and your notes stay inside the agency workspace.
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What the hiring manager actually sees
The portal is deliberately narrow. When you share a search with a client, they get access to that one project's pipeline: the candidates you put forward and the stage each one is in. That is the whole surface. There is no client-facing view of your other accounts, your prospect list, or the deal you are quietly working with their competitor down the road.
This matters most for agencies and executive-search firms that run a portfolio. A single misdirected email can show a client something they should never see. A project-scoped portal removes that risk by design, because the stakeholder never touches the agency workspace at all. The work of running the search, sourcing, sequencing, and note-taking, stays in your recruiting CRM, and only the shortlist crosses the boundary.
View access or feedback access, set per person
Not every stakeholder should be able to write. On a retained search you often have one hiring manager who decides and a wider panel who only observe. Leonar lets you set each person to view access or feedback access, so the decision-maker can comment while the rest simply follow along.
View access
The stakeholder reads the shared project pipeline: who is in play, which stage each candidate sits in, and how the shortlist is moving. It keeps a hiring committee informed without opening the door to edits or stray comments that muddy the record.
Feedback access
The stakeholder can submit candidate feedback through the portal while reviewing the shared project. Your client can give the agency a clear response without starting another reply-all email chain.
How you add or revoke a client's access
Access is something you hand out and take back on your terms. Share management lets you add a stakeholder to a project when the shortlist is ready and revoke that access the moment a search closes or a contract ends. Nothing lingers open by accident.
Because the portal has its own authentication, separate from your agency workspace login, revoking a client does not disturb your team's access to the underlying project. The search keeps running for your consultants while the external window simply closes. When a placement wraps and you move the deal to won in your client CRM for Companies and Deals, closing the portal is one clean step.
How clients submit candidate feedback
Stakeholders with feedback access can submit candidate feedback through the portal as they review the shared project. View-only stakeholders can follow the pipeline without sending feedback, so each person gets the right level of participation.
This gives clients one clear place to review the shortlist and send their response. Your consultants spend less time chasing feedback across separate email and chat threads.
See the portal alongside the rest of the workspace
The hiring manager portal is part of the Leonar platform, alongside your pipelines, sourcing, and client CRM. Compare published Starter and Professional pricing, or contact the team for bespoke Enterprise pricing.
Portal analytics and the access audit log
A shared search still needs to be measured and controlled. Portal analytics track candidate progress and pipeline metrics for the project you shared, so you can see how the shortlist is moving on the client's side rather than guessing.
Control sits next to it. Portal access audit logs record who was granted access and when, which gives an agency owner a straight answer to the question every client eventually asks: who could see this search. Paired with add and revoke share management, the audit log turns client collaboration into something you can actually govern, not just hope stays tidy.
Where the portal fits in an agency workflow
The portal is one surface in a platform built for agencies. You source and run the search in the ATS built for recruiting agencies, track the account and the fee in the client CRM for Companies and Deals, and keep the candidate side in the recruiting CRM. When it is time to bring the client in, the hiring manager portal shares just the shortlist from that work and lets stakeholders submit candidate feedback.
The pricing page publishes Starter and Professional prices in EUR and USD, with monthly and annual options. Enterprise pricing is bespoke. Your client sees exactly what you choose to share, and nothing else.
Hiring manager portal questions, answered
What can a hiring manager see in the Leonar portal?
A stakeholder sees one project. When you share a project with a hiring manager or client, they get access to that project pipeline and nothing else in your workspace. Your other clients, your deals, your prospect list, and your internal notes stay in the agency workspace. The portal is a project-scoped window, not a login to your CRM.
How does a hiring manager log in to the portal?
The portal runs on a separate route with its own authentication, apart from your agency workspace login. You add a stakeholder to a specific project, and they reach that project pipeline through the portal, not through your internal Leonar account.
What is the difference between view access and feedback access?
View access lets a stakeholder read the shared project pipeline: who is in play and which stage each candidate sits in. Feedback access adds the ability to submit candidate feedback. You decide which one each person gets, so a hiring manager can comment while a wider committee only reads.
How do I stop sharing a project with a client?
Share management lets you add or revoke access at any time. When you revoke a stakeholder, their portal access to that project ends. Portal access audit logs record who was granted access and when, so you keep a clear record of who could see each search.
Can clients submit candidate feedback in the portal?
Yes. Stakeholders with feedback access can submit candidate feedback through the portal. Stakeholders with view access can read the shared project pipeline without submitting feedback. Portal analytics separately track candidate progress and pipeline metrics for the shared project.
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