floatpoint-team / applicant-tracking-repo

A simple hiring workflow for reviewing job applicants, all in a forkable GitHub repository.

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Application Tracking Repo

Organize and review job applicants so no one falls through the cracks.

Table of Contents

1. Guide to Crafting a Hiring Pipeline

2. Checklists

3. How to Use GitHub for Applicant Tracking

4. Blogs, Articles, and Advice

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What is this?

This repository serves as a simple Applicant Tracking System for small to medium companies.

The files contain comprehensive guides and checklists that will help you develop a mature hiring process that's right for your company.

You can fork this GitHub repository and use Issues and Projects to organize your hiring pipeline.

What is an Applicant Tracking System?

An Applicant Tracking System (ATS) organizes the state of each applicant in your hiring pipeline and the transitions between different states.

Common examples of ATS's that you might have heard of are Greenhouse.io, Lever.co, and SAP Recruiting.

Why would I use this "Applicant Tracking Repo"?

Each company grows differently. There is no cookie-cutter method for evaluating who you will end up working with on a daily basis.

Like any important project, iteration and incremental changes are necessary for success.

This "Applicant Tracking Repo" provides guides, checklists, and a basic set of features (well, GitHub's features actually) for hiring. Hopefully, this will be useful as you slowly develop a more mature hiring process for your company.

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Guide to Crafting a Hiring Pipeline

Name	Description
😇 Assigning an "Owner"	Designate an "applicant owner" who supervises the applicant through the hiring process. Read more.
📝 Pre-Screening	(optional) Briefly evaluate the applicant's resume or CV with a rubric.
💬 Scheduling an Interview	Request time from staff to help interview and review applicants.
🧐 Post-Interview	Follow-up on staff to aggregate interview notes and decide on next steps.
💼 Extending an Offer	Define where and how the applicant will fit in your team.
✅ Closing	Encourage your applicant to choose your offer over others.

Checklists

• Step 1
• Step 2

How to Use GitHub for Applicant Tracking

If you're familiar with GitHub issues and projects, then these existing workflows are actually quite nice for tracking applicants:

Hiring Concept	GitHub Equivalent
Job Opening to Hire For	New Project
New Applicant	New Issue
Add Applicant to a Job Opening	Add Issue Card to a Project
Stages in a Pipeline	Columns in a Project board
Discussions about an Applicant	Issue Threads
Interviewer	Issue Assignee
Filterable Details about Applicants	Issue Labels

[Note]

These concepts are not exact 1:1 mappings. After all, GitHub isn't really meant for this use case.

Nonetheless, these analogies can be useful as you design a hiring process that works for you.

Blogs, Articles, and Advice

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