You can control exactly how your AI recruiter interacts with new applicants. Choose a screening style that best fits the role and your company's compliance needs, and then customize its personality to create a great candidate experience.
Choose a Screening Style
When posting or editing a job, you'll be asked how you want your AI recruiter to screen candidates.
Interview and dig deeper (Dynamic Screening - Recommended)
This setting empowers your AI recruiter to act like an AI interviewer. It engages candidates in a natural, adaptive conversation via SMS and email. It reviews their resume, asks relevant questions, and digs deeper with follow-ups based on their responses. This method uncovers more detailed insights than a standard application form.
Add your own questions (optional)
When "Interview and dig deeper" is selected, you can add guidance so the AI covers critical topics while staying conversational.
- Click "+ Add your own questions (optional)" to expand the editor.
- Add a short list of must-ask topics or questions. The AI will try to weave these into the conversation naturally, so it may rephrase or occasionally skip.
- Reorder, add, or remove items at any time; save the job to apply changes.
Stick to set questions (Classic Screening)
This option provides maximum consistency, asking every candidate the exact same list of preset questions. This is ideal for roles where you need specific, uniform information from every applicant for compliance or comparison purposes.
Skip automated screening entirely
Your AI recruiter doesn't message new applicants for this job, so you can screen them yourself.
Permissions
Admin users may set company‑wide restrictions on the screening styles you can select. If options are disabled or preselected, hover the info icon for details. Learn more in Set company-wide permissions for AI recruiting
Prep Your AI Recruiter on Talking to Candidates (Optional)
In the "Prep AI recruiter on talking to candidates" section, you can further customize its communication style:
- Name: Give your AI recruiter a human name (e.g., "Sarah") that candidates will see.
- Tone: Choose between "Friendly & personal," "Professional & formal," or "Concise & efficient."
- Persistence: Decide how actively it should follow up with unresponsive candidates. Your AI recruiter usually replies to a candidate within about a minute; how often it follows up depends on this setting and the conversation.
- Thoroughness (Dynamic Screening only): Control how deep it digs during conversations.
- Messaging Windows: Set specific hours when your AI recruiter is allowed to send messages (e.g., business hours only).
- Selling Points & Perks: Provide key information about the role and your company that your AI recruiter can use to sell the opportunity to great candidates.
By carefully setting these preferences, you ensure your AI recruiter engages candidates in a way that is effective, professional, and perfectly aligned with your brand.
Go deeper: watch Build an AI recruiter that recruits like you (7 min), a FactoryFix University session.