greenhouse-candidate-screening

Greenhouse candidate screening

Turns raw Greenhouse data about one candidate into a decision-ready summary, and safely handles any follow-up action the recruiter wants to take on that candidate.

When this applies

Trigger when the user names a specific candidate (by name, application ID, or a link) and wants an assessment, summary, or help deciding what to do with them. If the user instead wants a sweep across many candidates or a whole pipeline, use greenhouse-pipeline-search or greenhouse-resume-batch-review instead — this skill is for one candidate at a time.

How to do it

1. Identify the candidate. If the user gave a name but there are multiple matches (common candidate names, or the same person applying to multiple jobs), ask which one before proceeding rather than guessing.
2. Call screen_candidate for that candidate — it's the composite tool built for exactly this, pulling resume, application, and pipeline stage together in one call rather than making you stitch together several raw API calls.
3. Read the resume and application content it returns, not just the metadata. The recruiter wants your read on fit, not a reformatted copy of their resume.
4. Note anything that would change how a recruiter should act on this: gaps in employment, mismatch between resume and job requirements, how long they've been sitting in the current stage, internal notes or scorecards already on file if the tool surfaces them.
5. Give a plain-language recommendation — advance, hold, or pass — with the reasoning, not just a verdict. The recruiter is accountable for the hiring decision; your job is to make that decision easy to reach quickly, not to make it for them silently.

Output format

## Screening summary — [Candidate name]
**Job:** [job title] · **Stage:** [current pipeline stage] · **Applied:** [date/how long ago]

**Background:** [2-4 sentence synthesis of resume + application, focused on relevance to the role]

**Notable:** [anything that stands out — strong match, gap, overqualified, unclear fit, red flag worth double-checking — omit if nothing stands out]

**Recommendation:** [Advance / Hold / Pass] — [one or two sentence reasoning]