Automation · Customer service and scheduling
Register candidates who reach you on WhatsApp in Workable
An AI agent tells people which jobs you have open in Workable, registers whoever applies on WhatsApp and tells them where their process stands.
How do I register the people who ask about jobs on my WhatsApp in Workable?
A Met connected to Workable answers whoever writes to your WhatsApp asking about jobs. It tells them which jobs you have open and what each requires, with what Workable says. If the person wants to apply, it checks they are not already registered, creates them as a candidate and leaves a comment on their profile so the recruiter knows they came through WhatsApp. When they write back, the Met checks their profile and activity and tells them where their process stands. Your team still decides, interviews and hires.
What starts it
When the customer writes
It starts when someone writes to your WhatsApp asking whether there are openings or about their hiring process. There is no trigger to configure: the Met assigned to the line answers that conversation, even though the person writing is a candidate and not a customer.
Nothing to set up. The Met assigned to that channel picks up the conversation and runs the procedure inside it.
Who runs it
Service Met that welcomes candidates
Customer service team
This is not a named, seeded Met. It is the Met that already answers your company's WhatsApp line, with Workable connected. The person writing here is a candidate, not a customer, and its work ends when that person is registered and knows where their process stands.
Run by the customer support Met
Channels: WhatsApp
What you need connected
- Workable Collect and manage
5 steps · 8 tools
The procedure, step by step
Each step shows the tool that runs. They belong to the real connector: if one of them stopped existing, this page would not build.
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Tell which jobs are open
The Met checks the jobs in your Workable account and opens the details of the one the person is interested in, to tell them what it requires with what your team wrote in Workable and not from memory.
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Check whether the person is already registered
Before creating anyone, the Met checks the account's candidates so it does not duplicate someone who already applied. If they exist, it continues with that profile instead of creating another.
- 3
Register the candidate
With the details the person gave in the conversation, the Met creates the candidate in Workable. If no job fits them, your team can tell it to leave them in the talent pool.
- 4
Let the recruiter know
The Met leaves a comment on the candidate's profile with what was discussed in the chat and that they came through WhatsApp, so the recruiter sees it in Workable without reading the conversation.
- 5
Tell where the process stands
When the candidate writes back, the Met checks their profile and activity and tells them where things stand, with what Workable reports. It does not promise dates or outcomes your team has not recorded.
Before you start
What you need ready
The Met solves none of these for you. If one is missing, the automation stops there.
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Workable connected in Met
In Met, open Connections, then Workable, then Connect. A Workable window opens so you can sign in and authorize Met with an account that has access to your jobs.
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Creating candidates and commenting turned on
The workspace admin checks in the connector that creating candidates and adding comments stay on. If they are turned off, the Met can only read.
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Clear instructions about which details to ask for
Your team writes in the Met's instructions which details it asks for before registering someone and which jobs it can offer on WhatsApp.
The limits
What this automation does NOT solve
Better said here than discovered halfway through the rollout.
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It does not decide whom to hire or disqualify candidates in this recipe. Your team does the selection in Workable.
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It does not schedule interviews: it can read events, but the connector lists no tool to create them.
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It does not post new jobs. Jobs are created in Workable and the Met only reads them.
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It does not ask for confirmation in the chat before creating the candidate. The control is which actions the workspace admin keeps on.
FAQ
Questions about this automation
They can send it to the chat, but this recipe does not upload it to Workable. The Met records the details the person wrote; your team attaches the resume if it needs it.
The Met checks the account's candidates before creating a new one. If it finds them, it continues with that profile and tells them where things stand.
It sees the ones the account that connected Workable can see. Workable applies that user's permissions to everything the Met does.
Your company, under its Workable plan. Meteor does not resell the service and Met does not charge Energy for these calls.
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