How to post a job and activate your AI recruiter

Posting a job on FactoryFix means putting a dedicated AI recruiter to work for you 24/7. This guide will walk you through creating a job and giving your AI recruiter the right instructions to find, screen, and deliver qualified candidates.

Step 1: Start a New Job

From your FactoryFix dashboard, click the Manage Jobs tab, then click the purple + New job button.

Click the + New job button

Step 2: Post Your Job Details

Fill out the essential information about the role. Be specific, as your AI recruiter uses these details for targeting and evaluation.

  • Job Title, Location, Pay, Hire Type, and Shift.
  • Job Description: Go beyond a generic list of duties. The more detail you provide about required skills (e.g., "experience with Fanuc controls" vs. "CNC experience"), the better your AI recruiter can perform.
  • Skills: Add relevant skill tags to improve matching.

Fill out the job details form

Step 3: Select Your AI Recruiter

Choose which AI recruiter from your team will handle this job. You can select the default Copilot or any custom AI recruiter you've created. The settings from your selected recruiter will automatically populate the next steps, saving you time.

Step 4: Customize Your AI Recruiter's Strategy for This Job

This is where you give your AI recruiter its marching orders for this specific role. You can use the defaults from your selected AI recruiter or override them.

a. Teach your AI recruiter how to evaluate candidates

b. Align on your AI recruiter's sourcing strategy

  • Choose between sourcing Active Job Seekers + Passive Candidates (recommended) or Active Job Seekers only.
  • Decide if your AI recruiter should Optimize visibility on job boards (recommended) or keep the original posting.
  • Learn more: Align on your AI recruiter's sourcing strategy

c. Set your AI recruiter's interview style

  • Choose between "Interview and dig deeper" (recommended), where your AI recruiter has natural, adaptive conversations, or "Stick to set questions."
  • You can also customize the AI recruiter's name, tone, persistence, and messaging hours for this job.
  • Learn more: Set your AI recruiter's interview style

Step 5: Activate Your Job

Once you're satisfied with the setup, click Activate job. Your AI recruiter is now live and will immediately begin:

  • Posting your job across dozens of relevant job boards.
  • Searching the FactoryFix talent pool for passive candidates (if enabled).
  • Screening and evaluating every applicant to deliver qualified, interested candidates directly to your pipeline.

You can also click Save & Exit to save the job as a draft and activate it later.

Click Activate job to publish your posting