Your desk: what Lovelio learns about how you recruit
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Settings > You > Your desk is your own record of how you recruit. It is built from your work inside Lovelio and it is yours alone.
What is on the page
Two halves, in this order.
Your numbers. Billings on your own share of each fee, placements, submissions, client interviews, jobs filled and closed, your submission-to-interview and interview-to-placement conversion, median days to fill one of your roles, how many deliberate touches you make a week, how often your outreach gets answered, and how often you go the other way when Lovelio's AI has a view on a candidate. Under that, what the desk is made of: your clients, industries, locations, where your people come from, why you pass on someone, and why your roles end.
Five short write-ups, using the headings the page shows: "Your work" (who you recruit for and what you fill), "Candidates you submit" (the people you put forward, place, and pass on), "How you work" (how you get in touch, how often, and how long a role takes you), "What works well" (what your desk does better than your other numbers would predict), and "Where candidates drop out" (the stage or reason that loses you the most candidates and roles). Every sentence is written from the figures above and names one of them.
What it counts, and what it ignores
It counts only work you did inside Lovelio, from the day you started. Anything brought in from another system is excluded twice over: by date, and by the record of what the import wrote. Figures built on an imported database would describe the import, not your work.
It counts a touch when a person deliberately did something: a note, a call, an email, an interview request, a reference request. Records being updated, resumes being parsed, automations running and webhooks arriving are not somebody at their desk, so they are not counted.
Money is always your own credit share of a placement, never the whole fee, and currencies are never converted into one another. The figures match the analytics page to the cent because they come from the same place.
It states facts, it does not give advice
Everything on this page says what happened. Nothing says what to do about it. That is deliberate: it is your desk and you know it better than we do, so the page never gives advice or tells you what to focus on.
If you want a view, ask Lovelio. Ask "where am I losing candidates?" or "which of my clients is worth more time?" and it will give you an opinion, with the numbers behind it.
What you see before your desk is established
Each of the five write-ups has its own threshold, and each counts the thing it is actually about. So you see the parts that are readable and not the parts that are not.
- Your work is written from the jobs and submissions you are working, so it appears early.
- How you work is written from your logged touches, so a fortnight of ordinary work is enough.
- Where candidates drop out is written from your submissions and the roles that ended.
- Candidates you submit is written from your decisions and the reasons you record when you pass on someone.
- What works well is written from placements and needs about ten, because a pattern only shows in the placements you actually make. Ten is the minimum for a reliable read.
Above its threshold but still early, a write-up says so: it is labelled with what it was counted from, the heading reads "What we know so far", and it tells you it will sharpen as you record more work. Under the write-ups, "Still counting" names the parts that cannot be written yet and how far off they are - for example "What works well is written from placements. You have 1; it needs about 10." That is a count of your records, not a target.
A brand new consultant sees their figures and that list, and nothing invented.
The page also has a "Not known yet" section when something genuinely cannot be worked out - for example when none of your closed roles has a reason recorded, so why your desk loses roles is unknown. It says so rather than leaving a gap you cannot see.
Where the figures come from
At the bottom, "Where these figures come from" opens the audit trail: one line per group of figures, naming exactly which records produced them. If a number looks wrong, open it. Every figure is recomputed from your records, so nothing on the page is a stored opinion.
Who can see it
You, and nobody else. Not your team leader, not an admin, not the agency owner. That is enforced in the database, not just in the page.
How the reasons get recorded
Two small prompts feed this page:
- Closing a job asks why, in one line. You can skip it, and the suggestions are buttons that fill the box so you can still edit the words. Lovelio files your sentence under a category later so "why your roles end" can be counted, and your own words are always kept exactly as you wrote them.
- Rejecting a candidate takes a reason the same way, from the reject window or from Slack.
Both are optional everywhere. A forced pick looks like data and is worse than nothing.
How often it updates
Overnight. The figures do not change meaningfully from one day to the next, so the write-up is rebuilt on a schedule rather than every time you send a submission.