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title: "Outcomes and retention"
description: "What Sureshake records when you hire or reject a candidate, and what it does not track afterwards."
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# Outcomes and retention

Read this page to understand what a hiring decision records, and what you need to track elsewhere.

## Record a decision

When an application is **Evaluated**, open it and select **Hire** or **Reject**. See [review applications](/hiring/recruiters/#review-applications) for the steps before that point.

You can't change a decision afterwards. Sureshake then records:

- the application's new status, **Hired** or **Rejected**
- the date the application closed

The candidate sees the new status in **My Applications**. On a hired application, the timeline reads **Offer Accepted**.

## What a decision does not do

A decision only changes the status of that application.

- **The role stays open.** Close it yourself when you finish hiring. See [close a role](/hiring/recruiters/#close-a-role).
- **Other applications don't change.** Decide each one separately.
- **Your execution record doesn't update.** If hiring is one of your goals, record the result in your [execution record](/founders/execution-record/).

## Retention

Sureshake doesn't currently track what happens after a hire, so there are no 30, 90 or 180-day retention checkpoints. Track retention in your own HR system.

## What a Hired status proves

A **Hired** status is the company's own record that it selected a candidate. It isn't evidence of employment:

- Sureshake doesn't check that the person started or still works there.
- It isn't anchored on a public blockchain.
- It's visible only to the candidate and to people with hiring access at the company, so it doesn't appear on the candidate's profile.

To learn what Sureshake does anchor, see [How proof works](/trust/how-proof-works/).

Source: https://docs.sureshake.com/hiring/outcomes/index.mdx