Cannot deserialize the JSON array (e.g. [1,2,3]) into type ' ' because type requires JSON object (e.g. {“name”:“value”})

{"HRDashboard ":[{"Email":"[email protected]","FullName":"Bipin  Dhakal","Location":"Taplejung Meringden Rural Municipality Tole Demo-01","JoinDate":"2007-01-25T00:00:00","Contact":646,"ImagePath":"\/Content\/images\/20160107_123742.jpg","Department":"Administration","StaffType":"Teacher"}]}

public class HRDashboardViewModel
    {
        public string Email { get; set; }
        public string Location { get; set; }
        public int Age { get; set; }
        public DateTime JoinDate { get; set; }
        public string Contact { get; set; }
        public string FullName { get; set; }
        public string ImagePath { get; set; }
        public string Deparment { get; set; }
        public string StaffType { get; set; }
        public int TotalPeriod { get; set; }
        public int TotalClass { get; set; }
        public int PendingTask { get; set; }
        public int ComplateTask { get; set; }
        public int TotalNotification { get; set; }
        public HRDashboardViewModel HRDashboard { get; set;}
      
    }

 My service  

                      string report= ds.Tables[0].Rows[0].ItemArray[0].ToString();                      
                      var data = new HRDashboardViewModel();
                        if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(report))
                        {
                         data = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<HRDashboardViewModel>(report);
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            data = new HRDashboardViewModel();
                        }

Solutions

Solution: 1

 //public HRDashboardViewModel HRDashboard { get; set;}

 public List<HRDashboardViewModel> HRDashboard { get; set;}

Solution: 2

var report= (HRDashboardViewModel)Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(response, typeof(HRDashboardViewModel)); 
return report.data.Count.ToString();

Solution: 3

var report=JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<RetrieveMultipleResponse>>(JsonStr);