Reviewing suggestions

Suggestions is an optional feature. When it is enabled for your workspace, Consider can suggest candidates for a hiring project based on the information in the project.

To get useful suggestions, make sure the project describes the role you are hiring for, including details such as seniority, location, and key skills.

Review suggestions for a project

Open a hiring project and go to Suggestions to review the profiles suggested for that project.

Depending on the features and integrations available to your company, suggestions can include profiles from:

• The Talent Network — when your company has access to the host’s Talent Network
• Your team’s networks — people connected to colleagues whose professional networks are available in Consider
• Other talent sources — matching profiles outside the Talent Network and your team’s connections
• Your ATS — candidates already in your Applicant Tracking System, when an ATS integration is configured

Use the available source filters to narrow the suggestion list when you want to review one group at a time.

Evaluate a suggestion

Open a suggested profile to review the candidate’s experience and compare it with the requirements in your project.

When connection information is available, the profile may also show colleagues who know the candidate. You can use that information when deciding whether to ask a colleague for context or an introduction.

Accept or skip a suggestion

For each suggested candidate, you can choose how to handle the profile:

• Save to prospects — adds the candidate to the project so your team can continue reviewing or contacting them.
• Skip — removes the candidate from the active suggestion queue.

A colleague contributing to a project without being a project member may see Recommend instead of Save to prospects. Project members can review those recommendations.

Improve future suggestions

Your accept and skip choices can be used to refine later suggestions for the project.

If the suggestions are consistently too broad or do not match the role, review the project’s candidate description and make the requirements more specific.

See Hiring projects for information about updating the project description.

Review new suggestions

Suggestions can change as additional profiles become available from the sources connected to your workspace.

Return to active projects periodically to review any new suggestions.

For information about reaching out to candidates you want to pursue, see Contacting candidates.