How Tandem works, from prompt to hire
How a role moves through Tandem, from your first prompt to a hired candidate, and which steps are yours to decide.
From prompt to live role
Describe the role
On Home, type the role in Tell us about your hiring needs. Tandem asks for anything missing: location, work mode, employment type, salary range and number of openings.
Review the draft
Tandem drafts the job and its stages, and tells you what it assumed. Review it from Roles → Drafts → Continue setup.
Go live
Tell Tandem make the role live. Your job page goes public and Tandem searches the open market for matches.
Related: Review and edit the job draft · Go live, pause or close a role
How candidates arrive
People apply through a chat on your job page. To reach more people, turn on any of these yourself:
- Outreach. Tandem emails people it found.
- Job ads. Advertise on job boards for 30 days.
- Your own list. Add people by hand or by CSV.
Related: Outreach overview · Job ads overview · Bring your own candidates
How candidates move
Applicants move through the stages you kept: Apply, Screen, AI Interview and Schedule. Tandem scores screening and interview answers. Where auto-advance is on, candidates at or above your bar move to the next stage. Everyone else waits for you in Needs review.
Schedule is always yours: candidates book a time with your team.
Related: Pipeline stages
What you decide
Only you move a candidate to Hired or Rejected, one candidate at a time. Only you start job ads. When you ask Tandem to move candidates or close a role, it lists what will change and asks you to confirm first.
Want to see it end to end? Try the Quickstart.