# 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.

Source: https://tandem.joveo.com/support/get-started/how-tandem-works

## From prompt to live role

1. **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.

2. **Review the draft**

   Tandem drafts the job and its stages, and tells you what it assumed. Review it from `Roles` → `Drafts` → `Continue setup`.

3. **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](https://tandem.joveo.com/support/roles/edit-the-draft.md) · [Go live, pause or close a role](https://tandem.joveo.com/support/roles/go-live-pause-close.md)

## How candidates arrive

People apply through a chat on your [job page](https://tandem.joveo.com/support/roles/apply-page.md). 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](https://tandem.joveo.com/support/outreach/overview.md) · [Job ads overview](https://tandem.joveo.com/support/job-ads/overview.md) · [Bring your own candidates](https://tandem.joveo.com/support/search/import-candidates.md)

## 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](https://tandem.joveo.com/support/roles/pipeline-stages.md)

## 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](https://tandem.joveo.com/support/get-started/quickstart.md).