When you publish a vacancy in Elevate you will attract candidates to the role through external advertising on job boards and also by the recommendation process.
The important difference between Applicants and Recommendations are:
- Applicants are candidates who have actually applied to your role, and are found either within the specific vacancy:

or the main dashboard which will show all applications across all vacancies :

- Recommendations are those who we are Recommending should apply to your role but have not yet done so. You can view these from the specific vacancy dashboard:

Recommendations defined:
As part of publishing a vacancy through Elevate you will see a set of existing candidate accounts from your Talent Pools that we believe are a good fit for the role. You can review a few of these candidates and send out recommendation emails to invite them to apply to your job vacancy. Notifications are sent to highly relevant active candidates that have a matching skill set, rate, location and right to work. Recipients of these notifications, or recommendations as we call them, can quickly apply.
Further help doc: Reviewing Matches