Setting up your first Hiring Assistant project

- Alright, say you're Cameron. A recruiter who needs to hire a senior level software engineer and fast. You can first locate the Hiring Assistant icon top right. Clicking on it will open a sliding window with all of Hiring Assistant activity, including the previous Hiring Assistant project created, or start hiring for a new role. But this is our first project, right? So we're going for the faster route. From the recruiter homepage just clicking the central search bar and selecting the dropdown menu, create a new Hiring Assistant project. I will first make sure that Hiring Assistant is added to this project by turning this to on. I'm now ready to describe my ideal candidate. I can add qualifications, attach a job description, a PDF document extracted from my career site, mention an ideal profile or add a LinkedIn job post. But I just got out of the strategy meeting where we discuss this requirement. I'm just going to copy paste the discussion we had. We are looking for a senior level software engineer with at least eight years of experience. This is a hybrid role based in Bangalore. Of course, this is only the starting point of our discussion with the Hiring Assistant, but I'm satisfied for now, and I'll click on continue. Hiring Assistant will use these role details and qualifications to find top candidates. Let's focus on the role details. They have been extracted from my initial prompt, which is why the employment type is not specified. I'm going to select full-time here. Of course, I can change the job title if I find those too restrictive. And because I made some modifications here, I need to click on apply edits. Hiring Assistant already has some suggestions for me. I can review candidates together. Sometimes it will tell me to review the qualifications already, or I can start sourcing now. We'll review qualifications and evaluation in the next video. So let's start sourcing now. The sourcing is in progress and the project is created. Hiring Assistant will add candidates to my pipeline automatically. I can now open the project. This is my project overview page. There is no Hiring Assistant activity just yet, but I can go and edit the requirements if I want. This is a familiar page. We can change the role details or modify the qualifications, but for now, I'm just going to click on the gear icon, top right, and edit my settings. The Hiring Assistant settings on this project are divided in between sourcing and evaluation and messaging and candidate engagement. If I click on edit, I can select the automated candidate sourcing. There are two targets I can select from. I can select the number of email accept, or I can select the number of candidates that Hiring Assistant will source at once. What about the messaging then? I can either select Hiring Assistant to use AI assisted messaging to drive my emails, or I can ask Hiring Assistant to use my library of template that has been approved by my organization. Hiring Assistant will not act on your behalf. It will not send the emails, you are in control. I'm satisfied with this setting, so I can click on save now. I stepped away from my desk to reply to an important phone call for five minutes, and when I came back, I had the pleasure when refreshing the page to see some activity. I can see 57 candidates sourced to talent pool and 30 candidates already added to pipeline. But we'll see that in the next video.