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1. [Impact Hire](https://help.impacthire.com/?hsLang=en)
2. [Getting started](https://help.impacthire.com/getting-started?hsLang=en)
# Welcome to Impact Hire
## Impact Hire brings the hiring process into one place, from creating and publishing a job to reviewing candidates, running assessments and interviews, and recording the final hiring outcome. You set the job, workflow, questions, rubrics, and hiring decisions; Impact Hire helps run the process and keeps the evidence and decisions together.
**The hiring journey {#the-hiring-journey}**
A hiring round starts with your company account and ends when a candidate accepts an offer. The exact stages between those points depend on the workflow you set for the job.
**1. Set up your company**
Your account represents one company. You can invite colleagues, organise access through roles and teams, connect calendars for interviewers, connect supported job boards, and add your company branding. You do not need to complete all of this before creating your first job.
**2. Create the job**
You can start with an empty job, reuse a job you posted before, or describe the role and use AI to help draft it. Every job starts as a draft, so you can leave it and return later.
Before publishing, you work through seven steps:
1. Job details
2. Workflow
3. Application rubric
4. Screening
5. Automation
6. Job boards
7. Review and publish
Screening, automations, and job boards are optional. Every published job needs an application rubric, which defines what you are looking for and how applications are measured.
**3. Publish the job**
Publishing makes the job live and able to take applications. Your company career page is selected as a destination by default, and you can choose connected job boards or share the job link directly. Publishing and distribution are separate: a job can be live even when it is not listed on your career page or a job board.
**4. Candidates apply**
Candidates do not create Impact Hire accounts. They apply to a specific job and use private links for later steps in the process.
When an application arrives, Impact Hire records its source, processes any screening answers, reads the application when no knockout applies, and scores the application against the rubric set for that job. The application reaches the company directly.
**5. Review and move candidates**
Each application stands in a stage of the job's workflow. You can work with candidates through the board or a ranked list, open an individual candidate profile, review their application and evidence, and move them through the stages of your process.
Depending on the workflow you set, a stage can send emails or run a written assessment, AI interview, or interview with a person. Scores can move a candidate forward when they meet a figure your company has set. A score does not reject a candidate; ending an application is a human decision, apart from a screening knockout configured as a hard requirement.
**6. Review scores and evidence**
Impact Hire keeps the evidence behind its scores so the people involved in hiring can review how a result was reached. People with access can review scores, settle flags, add comments, and override individual criterion scores. The record keeps both the original result and the human review.
**7. Interview and decide**
Your workflow can include interviews with people as well as assessments and AI interviews. After an interview with a person, the host reviews the result and decides where the candidate moves next.
Every workflow ends with offer stages. A candidate reaches **Offer Sent** when the company sends an offer and **Offer Accepted** when they accept it. At Offer Accepted, the candidate is hired and Impact Hire retains the record of how the company reached that decision.
**Your first-day checklist {#your-first-day-checklist}**
You do not need to configure the whole account before you start hiring. Impact Hire is designed so that you can create and publish a job on your first day.
- Verify your email address and finish creating or joining your company account.
- Check your company details. Branding can be completed later; it does not block your first job.
- Invite colleagues now if they need access to the hiring process. You can also do this later.
- Start your first job manually, from a previous job, or with an AI-assisted draft.
- Complete the required job details and name one hiring manager.
- Review the workflow selected for the job.
- Create and review the application rubric.
- Add screening questions, automations, or job-board destinations if you need them.
- Review the complete job and publish it.
Once you publish, the job is live and can take applications. Your career page starts serving when your first job is published.
Still stuck? [Contact support](mailto:success@impacthire.com).
- [Getting started](https://help.impacthire.com/getting-started?hsLang=en)
- [Account, team & roles](https://help.impacthire.com/account-team-roles?hsLang=en)
- [Creating jobs](https://help.impacthire.com/creating-jobs?hsLang=en)
- [Screening & knockouts](https://help.impacthire.com/screening-knockouts?hsLang=en)
- [Publishing & job boards](https://help.impacthire.com/publishing-job-boards?hsLang=en)
- [Workflows, board & automations](https://help.impacthire.com/workflows-board-automations?hsLang=en)
- [Tests, AI interviews & scoring (the glass box)](https://help.impacthire.com/tests-ai-interviews-scoring-the-glass-box?hsLang=en)
- [Interviews & scheduling](https://help.impacthire.com/interviews-scheduling?hsLang=en)
- [Billing, plans & trust](https://help.impacthire.com/billing-plans-trust?hsLang=en)
- [For candidates](https://help.impacthire.com/for-candidates?hsLang=en)
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