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title: Analytics Tutorial: Days in Current Stage Group
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This tutorial is a walkthrough of using the powerful Days in Current Stage Group field for reporting, with a bonus highlight of creating a calculated field that allows custom categorization for pipeline insights and setting up alerts to drive progress.

## Tutorial

In this tutorial you’ll explore and learn:

- How to setup reports that identify stale candidates in specific stages
- How to create a custom calculated field to segment candidates by their time in process
- How to analyze your pipeline by bucketing candidates by time in stage
- How to setup scheduled alerts that ensure timely progress for all candidates

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The `Days in Current Stage Group` field, which counts the number of days since a candidate’s application has moved to their most recent stage within a stage group, enables a variety of reporting. You’ll review creating the example report shown below, where you can see active candidates segmented by how long they’ve been in each stage group. In this example an insight is found showing the hiring manager stage group contains a disproportionate volume of slow-moving candidates.

![Day Duration in Stage (1).png](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/0p8tQ--ZZOxRtkVp6Qr-e/LmtSKOArBvBXpJ5gyUYie_daydurationinstage1.png)