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Candidate interaction – talk to your career site visitors
Candidate interaction – talk to your career site visitors

How does the Candidate Chat work and why should we activate it?

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Written by Suzan
Updated over a week ago

The Candidate chat is a great way to start talking to your candidates effortlessly and instantly. Make sure you're available for those dream candidates and don't risk losing them between your job ad and their application.

A Company Admin user needs to activate this feature in the Add-on feature center to get started

How does it work? 

The Candidate chat is shown as a small circle widget at the bottom right corner of every page. You can also add a pop-up message accompanied by a gentle sound for the site visitor, to increase the chat's visibility.  

Set it up

Once this feature has been activated in the Add-on feature center head over to Settings → Recruitment → Candidate interaction where you can enable the chat. When setting the chat up, you see a helpful preview where you can make sure it looks great!

The Candidate chat is available as: 

  • A general chat for your career site that will show up on all pages (you always have the option to deactivate it for specific job ads). This can be set up under Settings → Content / Career site → Candidate interaction.

  • A chat is activated for a specific job ad. You can activate the chat for a specific job, and customize the message and contact person for this chat under the step Candidate chat in the job editing mode. Here you will also be able to add a video presenter.

Video presenter

You can add a short video (up to 2 minutes) on chats enabled on specific job ads. This allows your team to introduce yourself and your team directly to the candidate in a personal way. Once the candidate clicks the video, they can start typing their question.

To upload a file, simply click Upload file and select the video from your computer. For the best result, let’s clarify the specifics of the video you upload:

  • Use a video in portrait orientation with an aspect ratio of 9:16. We recommend 1080x1920 pixels, but try to make it work if you use another dimension.

  • Keep it below 2 minutes, and don’t exceed 200mb in file size.

  • The supported formats of your video are: mp4, webm, flv, mov, quicktime, ogv, 3gp, 3g2, wmv, mpeg, avi.

Notifications

When the visitor responds to your chat, you will be notified via email if you have activated the notification New messages from leads. The message will also be displayed under Messages which you can access in the top right corner of your Teamtailor dashboard.

The notifications are as follows: 

  • A candidate writes in the chat on your career site: All admins will be notified

  • A candidate writes in a specific job ad: The sender of the message + the hiring team will be notified. 

When a visitor has written in the chat, a candidate profile will be created in your candidate bank as a Lead. Communicate with your lead by clicking a notification or opening the conversation under Messages or on the candidate card.

If you miss the conversation, don't worry - the chat operator asks the visitor to leave their email so you can get back to them in your own time. 

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