Ways to contact a prospective candidate
Teamable only uses publicly available information to enrich our database. Improvements in privacy laws and increased personal control over data means that sometimes Teamable will be missing the email address of a candidate.
If you have already requested further enrichment of a candidate's card (via the find email workflow or the bad data reporting feature) and the email address is still missing, there are a couple different ways you can continue your sourcing workflow in Teamable.
If an emVery popularAll of My Published Greenhouse Jobs Don't Appear in Teamable
Q: All of My Published Greenhouse Jobs Don't Appear in Teamable. Why?
A: Depending on how you create your Job in Greenhouse, it may not appear in Teamable currently.
**Greenhouse Jobs vs Job Postings
**There is an issue with the new Job Postings functionality in Greenhouse where jobs created with the Job Postings feature aren't compatible with their API for reliably pulling into third-party systems like Teamable.
Q: What are Job Postings?
A: Job Postings are a quick anVery popularGamification for Employee Referral Programs
Q: Gamification. Everyone has heard of it but what does it mean exactly and how is it going to help solve our recruiting problems?
A: Simply put, gamification for employee referrals means using game mechanics to encourage employee participation in the referral process.
Q: What are game mechanics?
A: Game mechanics appeal to a basic human need to achieve and to be recognized. Examples of game mechanics abound, including frequent flyer programs, Starbucks virtual points rewardVery popularHow to Report a Data issue
Teamable works by taking the names of your contacts that you opt-in to provide on popular social networks and email address books. We crawl the web to connect the names of your contacts with publicly available data about their work and education history, skillsets, and location. This helps better match them to jobs at your company.
We also provide social links such as LinkedIn, Twitter and Github for easier engagement.
While we try to be as accurate as possible, and we have a team that regulVery popularHow to Review a Resume Upload Candidate
Resume candidates are different than other warm referrals. Your employee has uploaded their resume and they enter your ATS as an applicant.
Go to Recruiter>{Job Name}>Tracking>Action Required to see any referrals, including resume candidates, that you need to take action on.
For every Resume Candidate, you can see easily who made the referral and when.
You can snooze the canPopularHow Does your Boolean Search Work?
To do a boolean search, choose 'Boolean' from the search mode for any job.
The boolean search can be used for both job titles and skills. Teamable matches based on current title and skills anywhere that we can find them on the web including LinkedIn, Facebook, Google and Github.
Be sure to include synonyms in order to return the most results, for example:
_"software engineePopularHow to Source for Top Talent
Any employee in your Teamable network can proactively identify top talent by clicking 'Mark Top Talent' next to a connection.
Many companies specifically ask engineering team members (or for other hard-to-source roles) to proactively go through their network and mark top talent to make it easier for the recruiting team to request introductions.
Every employee in your TeamablePopularWhat type of Information Gets Written to Greenhouse?
What is the difference between a prospect and a candidate?
From the Teamable perspective:
A prospect is a person sourced for a job (not yet contacted, but might be asked for an introduction or a referral can be made which is not approved). Not yet pushed to ATS.
A candidate is a person who is messaged. Once the message is sent out or a resume is uploaded (after approval) the prospect becomes a candidate and is pushed to ATS.
From the Greenhouse perspective:
A prospect is somPopularHow to Configure Advanced Search Filters
The following Advanced Search filters are displayed by default but any or all can be hidden for your account.
Include/Exclude employees
Company filter
Diversity filter
Experience
Advanced filters - Show current employees
Advanced filters - Show past employees
Advanced filters - Show candidates already in ATS
Advanced filters - Show snoozed prospects
Advanced filters - Show hidden prospects
Advanced filters - Top talent only
Note: for the Advanced filtersPopularHow to Edit a Template on Teamable
You can now edit templates if you are the owner of the job. You can also provide access to colleagues by changing the Template Owner.
Log in to your Teamable Account
Go to Account Settings and Click SETTINGS
Choose TEMPLATES from the bar
 and product notification emails).
Below, please find a description, subject, content, and trigger for each:
Email type
Message from Employee to Prospect
Subject
Join the team
Content
Hi,
Our company Teamable is growing rapidly, not sure about your current situation, but I thought of you as someone who'd enjoy the work and teamFew readersWhat Languages do you Support Besides English?
Do Job Titles & Descriptions need to be in English?
Synonyms and related words are only in English. A synonym search in another language would function as a boolean search. So, yes, it's possible, but the search results may be somewhat limited.
2. Will search terms be determined automatically for non-English titles & descriptions when added via ATS to Teamable?
No, we are currently only optimized to support this feature in English.
**3. If job titles and descriptions areFew readersHow to Manually Change the Stage of Any Candidate
By default, Teamable will manage stages for you. For example:
When you source a candidate, they're automatically added to the Sourced stage.
When you request an introduction, they're automatically moved to the Intro Requested stage.
When an employee doesn't respond within 7 days, they move to the Action Required stage.
You can also manually change the stage of any candidate, by clicking on the Lists tab and changing the stage and clicking the 'Update' button.
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To review job owners for a specific job, from the recruiter view, click on the job and then choose 'Basic Info'.
Then scroll down to the job owners section.
Note: there can only be one CC'd owner. But you can have as many people (or group addrFew readersHow does your matching algorithm work?
While we can't share all of the details, here are some things that are happening under the hood:
We automatically normalize job titles to increase relevant search results.
We automatically extract skills from your job description.
We automatically determine seniority level from job title.
We automatically determine location.
We then do our best to match people by ranking them based on their location, title, seniority and skillset.Few readersHow Does Your Synonym Search Work?
The best talent doesn't always update their public profiles, and many titles are different but mean the same thing.
Teamable makes it easy to see matching candidates who are connected to your employees and then ask those connected whether they'd be a good match for your job opening. Getting the opinions of your employees who know your prospective candidates allows for real-world vetting and validation.
Three factors are weighted to deliver the most relevant results for any synonym search:Few readersHow to Use the Diversity Filters
The Teamable diversity filters allow you to search by gender and race or ethnicity. To use both gender and race or ethnicity, select race or ethnicity AND gender.
Teamable uses machine learning to identify ethnicity with image matching. While not foolproof, it works pretty well!
You can also choose multiple ethnicities if you wish. Just click what you would like to see and the search results will automatically update.
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In Greenhouse, the job owner displayed in Teamable is the first name listed under the Recruiters fFew readersHow can I Find New College Grads in Teamable?
Q: We're hiring new college grads. How can I find them in Teamable?
A: We've found you can get great results of recent college graduates by including terms like "Intern" and "Internship" in your boolean or synonym search. Why? Most grads have a formal internship or two during their junior and senior year and typically add their internships to their social accounts like LinkedIn, Google+ and Facebook.Few readersWhat is the Difference Between a Passive and Active Candidate?
The Resume Upload feature allows any employee to refer a friend or former colleague directly for any open position at your company. These prospects should be reviewed first as they're actively interested and the easiest to close.
To submit a referral, the employee simply provides the following information for their referral candidate:
Prospect's full name.
Prospect's eFew readersHow Does Teamable Indicate New Matches?
Q: Are our employees' shared network connections dynamic? If so, how can we tell when new matches are being displayed?
A: All of the networks except LinkedIn are constantly refreshing. So Teamable will automatically pull in new connections as your employees add them. And when new employees join Teamable and connect their networks, new connections will appear organically as well for any of your existing job searches. New contact cards appear with a green flag.
, reach out to CS
Q: What is the default bonus?A: This is the amount and currency that Teamable will display for open jobs.
This amount appears under Basic Info on the recruiting side (where it can be manually overwritten at any time by a recruiter):
This amount also appears for employees from the jobs page whenever they click refer:Few readersSourcing Jams with Your Employee(s)
For busy employees and hiring managers with great networks, it can be worthwhile to have sourcing meetings where they can fire off 10 - 20 messages in 30 minutes to the best talent in their networks for your most critical roles. Here is a guide to making these sessions super efficient.
**Quick note: Remember it can take up to 24 hours for an employees' network to be fully enriched, so be sure to invite your participants to sign up and share their networks at least 24 hours before the sourcing jFew readersTeamable for Engineering Leaders
As an engineering leader in a growing company, you care about six things when adding teammates and building high performing teams.
Hiring the best talent.
Hiring quickly.
Ramping new hires quickly and maintaining psychological safety and productivity as you grow.
Retaining great talent.
Not turning your engineering team into full time interviewers as you scale (interview hours/hire).
Building diverse teams to capitalize on the benefits of diverse teams on overall team anFew readersHow to Search Top Companies
Teamable keeps track of the top companies where your employees' extended network connections currently work.
To see the top companies list unique to your company:
Click on any open job.
From the search filters on the left, go to the Company Filter section.
Choose Top Companies.
The resulting companies will appear in the list below.
Fine Tuning
You caFew readersPromoting user to Recruiter
When you need to promote an employee to the Recruiter View you need to have admin access. You will know if you have Admin access if you see a "Admin Panel" icon on the top right of your Teamable Account Page. If you don't see this please send an email to support@teamable.com
To promote employee to Recruiter view:
1 - Click Admin Panel
2 - Find User (by Search by name or scrFew readersHow can I see all connections in a search?
Q: I want to browse all of the first degree connections that have been added to our Teamable account. How do I do that?
A: Go to any job (or create a new ad-hoc job
_Figure One: A default search for Market Development Representative with 178 results.
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_FiFew readersHow to Do Skill Calibration for a New Job
Many hiring managers work closely with their recruiter to calibrate on a new open job. Calibration is easy to do in Teamable.
What is Calibration? It's something that's typically done during an intake meeting where the Recruiter or Sourcer meets with the Hiring Manager to understand the job requirements for a new opening.
But don't they already know the requirements if there is a job description? Yes and no. Job descriptions are often full of jargon and corporate boilerplate text and can beFew readersHow and Why to 'Snooze' a Candidate
Snoozing is good for deferring action on a candidate match. Perhaps they've recently changed jobs and it's too soon to reach out. Or maybe the candidate has messaged back saying, "happy where I am but let's check in again in x months."
Whenever you snooze a candidate for a period of time, you'll receive an email reminder to reach out again after they "wake up."
How to Snooze
Click on the Snooze button
Choose the duration of deferment, for example 1 week, 1 month, 3 months (oFew readersHow can I optimize my searches?
Search Mode is designed to help users to go from a wide search (Synonym Search) to more narrowed and specific search (Boolean Search or Name Search).
In each search mode there are handful of advanced search fields and filters where you can narrow the results.
All of the search results are ordered by their relevancy, total number of connectors (people connected at the companFew readersHow to Approve an Employee's Referral
New in Teamable: As a recruiting or hiring manager, you can decide for each position whether to enable Referral Auto-Approval. By default, this option will be on for each job, which means that messages will be sent out to prospects as soon as an employee makes a referral, without requiring a recruiter to review the prospect. This is the recommended setting.
However, if you wish to uncheck the box, any referrals made for that position will be routed to the recruiter to review and approve befFew readersHow do I filter out my own connections from search results?
Q: As a recruiter, how can I remove connections from search results who are only connected to me?
A: You can add yourself to the 'Exclude employee' filter under the advanced search options.Few readersHow to Make Private Lists
There are some cases where you don't want to share new or pipeline positions with the entire company but you still want to source your employees' networks. Teamable allows to set/edit the visibility of created job postings.
There are 3 levels of visibility for each Job:
Company-Wide (default)
Recruiters Only
Private
To set the visibility during the list creation just choose the option during setup.
To edit the visibility of any job, click on the job, choose settings and look forFew readersHow to Send an Email to Notify Prospects to Apply
I would like all employee suggested candidates whose resumes are uploaded to receive an email with job application link from where they can apply for the job.
To enable this option for your account, contact Teamable Customer Success
Once enabled, the notification will appear at the bottom of the 'Add New Resume' page for everyone at your company.
Whenever a resume is uploaded, Teamable will send the prospective candidate a link to the job URL using the email your employee has provided so thatFew readersHow to Move a Candidate to a Different Job
On occasion an employee will refer a candidate whose skillset is better matched to a different open role than the one for which they were initially identified. Here’s how to move them to another role without losing any progress in the referral process.
Navigate to the Job where the candidate exists by clicking on {Job Name}>Tracking>Intro Made
Click on Lists for the candidate you want to move.
Choose a new job from the 'Select a job...' dropdown.
Add to list.Few readersSending Sourced Candidates for Review
When you are ready to send your messages:
Open the job.
Click on Tracking.
click on Sourced.
The sourced candidates will appear in a column on the left and the total number of candidates in that stage will appear next to the stage name. In this case, we can see that 42 prospective candidates have been identified for this position.
 identified and added to job list in Teamable.
Intro Requested. AFew readersChange Users Account Type (Single and Bulk Actions)
Select single or multiple users to upgrade to Recruiter or downgrade Admins to employee
If admins want to downgrade with bulk action, all they need is to select users with admin account type, choose “Make recruiter” option from bulk action drop down and click on “APPLY” button.Few readersHow to follow up or tag someone
With @mention you can directly request follow-up or action on any prospective candidate from anyone at the company.
It's easy to pull in a colleague whenever specific follow-up action is requested in Teamable.
When adding notes to any candidate in Teamable, simply do the following:
Type @ and then start typing the employee's name and select it from the dropdown.
Type your note.
Click the save button.
For example, below, I'm going to send Pukar a follow-up citation to see if we caFew readersCreate sense of urgency and excitement by holding a company raffle
Studies have shown that the average person has at least 25-100 great people in their network that could positively impact company hiring--and some have many more!
One way to encourage and reward employee participation in Teamable, is by holding a company or department wide raffle. These are especially useful during the first month of launch when you're trying to introduce Teamable and incentivize your employees for their participation.
You can customize the raffle eligibility criteria to meetFew readersNew Hire Onboarding
Most companies have some kind of onboarding program for new hires. These are opportunities not only for the new employee to fill out paperwork and provide two forms of identification, but, more importantly, a chance for the company to make sure the employee understands the company’s history and culture, gets some face time with senior leadership for goal and mission alignment, and has access to all of the tools and resources necessary to more quickly become a productive member of the team.
IntrFew readersHow to Manage Job Lists and Visibility Settings
By default, all jobs in Teamable are publicly viewable; meaning, anyone with access to your Teamable instance will be able to see the job and make referrals.
Anyone with the recruiting view can change the visibility of any company-wide or recruiters only job.
Figure One: The three visibility settings on the Job page (accessible from Job Lists>Edit/Send)
Changing VisibilityFew readersWhere do I go to see candidates referred in Teamable?
Q: I have already started receiving emails from employees referring candidates through Teamable. However, I can’t find those candidates in Teamable. Can you instruct me where I can find referred candidates, so that I can follow up with them?
A: That's great! Timely follow-up with all warm referrals will ensure you get into substantive conversations faster.
From the Teamable email notification, you can see the job for which the candidate has been referred.
Go to Teamable, click onFew readersHow Does Job Synchronization Work in Teamable
It's easy for you to connect your Greenhouse](https://intercom.help/teamable/applicant-tracking-systems/greenhouse/integrating-teamable-with-greenhouse), Lever, or [Jobvite
Job synchronization means that any time you create a new req in your ATS, we will create that job in your Teamable account. This means that any activity that occurs in Teamable for talent messaged will result in prospectsFew readersWhat is the difference between 'Intro' and 'Source'?
Q: In Teamable, when I click on a job from the Recruiter view, I see an Intro button and a Source button next to each candidate profile. What is the difference between the two?
Figure One: Example of a candidate profile and the 'Intro' and 'Source' buttons.
A: When you click on 'Intro' you're able to request an introduction to an employee who is a first degreeFew readersHow Can I Fix a 500 Internal Server Error Issue?
The 500 Internal Server Error is a server-side error, meaning the problem probably isn't with your computer or internet connection but instead with the website's server.
While not probable, it is possible that there's something wrong on your end, in which case we'll look at some things you can try:
Reload the web page. You can do that by clicking the refresh/reload button, pressing F5 or Ctrl-R, or trying the URL
Clear your browser's cache
Delete your browser's cookiesFew readersReporting : Tracking Candidates in the Teamable Funnel or Applications Report
Teamable reporting is available upon request to help you track and manage your funnel and any prospects that have moved to your ATS.
Note: Teamable funnel and applications reports are now available for your account as requested or on whatever cadence you establish please contact Support.
Funnel Report
The funnel report makes it easier to see all of the valuable information from the funnel view in Teamable in spreadsheet form.
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Q: What happens when you see multiple teammates are connected to a candidate and you request intros from everyone?
Figure One: Example of multiple "connectors": various people at the company who are connected to a prospective candidate.
Notes: By default, everyone is selected. You can click 'Clear' to remove selections and hand pick below. Once you're ready to send, clicFew readers