Your Candidate Record Agent Builds the Audit File as You Recruit
The AgentWorks Candidate Record Agent keeps your candidate files complete while your team recruits. It captures every candidate interaction automatically, asks for a structured disposition reason at every stage, keeps timestamped records ready for an audit and produces compliance reports for any period on demand, so your recruiters and recruiting operations lead spend their time with candidates and client companies instead of reconstructing history.
What it takes off your plate
In most recruiting firms, candidate records are incomplete. Interview notes live in a recruiter's email. A phone screen happened, but only the calendar invite shows it. Disposition reasons say "not a fit," or nothing at all, because the recruiter was on to the next req.
Then an EEOC charge arrives, or a client company that is a federal contractor faces an OFCCP compliance review. Your team spends weeks rebuilding the file from inboxes, calendars and memory: who applied, who was screened, who interviewed and why each candidate did not move forward. The gap between what happened and what was written down becomes a legal liability for your firm and your client. The cost is weeks of senior time, anxious clients and recruiters pulled off open reqs.
What the Candidate Record Agent does, step by step
The Candidate Record Agent starts with the conversations that usually go unrecorded.
- It logs every contact. Calls, texts and emails with a candidate are logged on their record automatically, with the date, the recruiter and a short summary.
- It collects interview notes. After each interview it asks the recruiter and the client's interviewers for their notes and scorecards, follows up until they arrive and files them on the candidate's record.
- It asks for a reason. When a candidate is moved out of a req, it asks the recruiter to choose a structured, job-related disposition reason from your firm's approved list and add a short note. A candidate cannot be closed out without one.
- It checks for gaps. Each week it lists candidates with missing notes, missing dispositions or interviews without scorecards, and nudges the recruiter responsible.
- It timestamps everything. Every change to a record is kept with who made it and when, so the history cannot quietly shift.
- It builds compliance reports. On request it produces reports for any period and req, such as applicant flow and dispositions by stage, for your compliance lead or counsel to review. Decisions about how to respond to a charge or an audit stay with counsel and your leadership.
Where the work is recorded
Everything lives on the candidate's record in the ATS your team already uses, such as Bullhorn or Greenhouse: every contact, every interview note, every scorecard, every disposition and every change with its timestamp. When a candidate calls asking about a past application, whoever answers can see the full history.
The next morning your recruiting operations lead opens a short list of records with gaps and the recruiters who owe them. When an audit request arrives, the Candidate Record Agent produces the report for the period asked, and the file already matches what happened. Client companies that are federal contractors can see that your firm keeps records they can rely on, which matters when they choose a search partner.
Consistent records start with consistent screening, which is where our post on screening every req the same way picks up.
What your people do instead
Your recruiters spend their time on the phone with candidates and hiring managers, not writing up notes at night or rebuilding them months later. Choosing a disposition takes a moment and becomes a habit instead of a chore. When a hiring manager at a client company asks why a candidate was not submitted, the recruiter answers from the record in a sentence rather than from memory.
Your operations lead supports the team and the client companies rather than running a reconstruction project every time a letter arrives. Candidate relationships and every hiring and legal judgment are human work; the Candidate Record Agent keeps the record, the reminders and the reports moving around them. For the search that fills your pipeline in the first place, see how a candidate sourcing agent runs the search while you take calls.
One next step
If your candidate files would need weeks of work before an audit, take the free Recruiting Industry Assessment. It shows which workflow an agent should take first. To see every agent built for recruiting and staffing firms, visit the AgentWorks recruiting page.
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