AI in hiring
What Tandem decides and what you decide
Tandem scores candidates and suggests next steps. You decide who is hired or rejected, and Tandem never rejects anyone.
What Tandem does
- Scores applications, screening answers and AI interviews, and explains each score.
- Moves candidates who score at or above your bar to the next stage, but only on stages where you turned on
Auto-advance. - Suggests next steps in the chat, such as drafting outreach.
What you decide
- How each stage works. You choose
Auto-advanceorManual review. WithManual review, you decide who moves on. - The bar. You set the minimum score for each stage. Suggested starting bars are 75 for Screen and 70 for AI Interview.
- Every hire and every rejection. You make these one candidate at a time, from the candidate's
Stagedropdown.
To turn on auto-advance, you confirm that you're choosing AI-assisted screening for that stage. You decide how the role screens candidates, and you're responsible for that choice.
Nobody is rejected automatically
Candidates below your bar aren't turned away. They wait for you in Needs review, with a reason such as Below your bar or Couldn't be scored. If you ask Tandem to move several candidates at once, it lists them and asks you to confirm first.
Related: Needs review · Scoring and auto-advance