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Add candidates by uploading CVs

Upload one or more CVs to a marketing list. Candidately reads each CV and creates the candidate profile for you.

Written by Jan Alexander Jedlinski

Who can do this: anyone who can edit the list.

Upload one or more CVs to a marketing list. Candidately reads each CV and creates the candidate profile for you.

Steps

  1. Open the list.

  2. Click Add candidate, then Upload candidate CV, and pick one or more files. Or drag the files onto the list. The bar at the bottom says Add new candidates by dropping CVs.

    Add candidate menu with Upload candidate CV and the other options
  3. Wait while the Parsing resumes panel reads the files. It can take up to a minute per resume. Each candidate then appears on the list, under their job title if the list is anonymized.

  4. Click Review & Update on the new candidate and check the profile against the CV.

  5. Optional: under Create new re-usable candidate profile, choose Create new candidate (or Link to existing candidate) to keep the candidate in your candidate database too.

  6. Click Set active, or Update candidate to keep them as Draft for now.

What happens next

New candidates arrive as Draft or Active, depending on the list setting Candidate upload status. Draft candidates stay hidden from clients until you set them active. See Draft, Active and Inactive candidates.

If AI-Generated Recruiter Notes is on for the list, each candidate also gets an AI-written summary.

Good to know

  • Files can be up to 25 MB. PDF and Word work best. You can also upload RTF, ODT, TXT and image files.

  • There's a limit on how many CVs your company can read in 30 days. If you reach it, you'll see "You have reached your CV parsing limit". Ask us in the chat if you need more.

  • A candidate without a CV, or whose CV couldn't be read, still shows on the list, but clients can't find them with search.

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