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Getting Started with TalentsGrid: Your First 15 Minutes
Create your workspace, pick where CVs are stored, add a job, bring in candidates, use the hiring chat, move people through the pipeline and invite your team.
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Hiring notes for freelance recruiters and small teams
How to screen CVs with evidence, run a lean pipeline and keep your candidate data yours. Written by the founder of TalentsGrid, checked against the product.
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Hiring Chat Guide: What the AI Copilot Does and Costs
How to use the TalentsGrid hiring chat: approvals, CV attachments, evidence-based scoring, comparing, outreach, slash commands, credit costs and prompt tips.
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Workspace Roles and Permissions: Invite and Manage Your Team
Invite teammates to a TalentsGrid workspace, understand the four built-in roles and each permission, create custom roles, change access and remove members.
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Workspace Storage Setup: TalentsGrid Cloud or Google Drive
Choose where TalentsGrid stores CVs: managed cloud or your Google Drive. Connect Drive, see what Google asks for, switch providers, disconnect and export data.
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Recruiting Email Templates: 6 Copy-Ready Examples
Copy recruiting email templates for outreach, interview invites, follow-ups, offers and rejections, with the exact placeholders TalentsGrid fills in for you.
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AI Resume Parsing: How CV Import Works in TalentsGrid
TalentsGrid reads a CV with AI and fills the candidate profile for you to review. Formerly called Magic Import. See the steps, file types and credit cost.
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ATS Data Ownership: 7 Questions to Ask Any Vendor
ATS data ownership decides whether you can leave. Use this 7-question checklist on exports, CV files and deletion, and see how TalentsGrid answers each.
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Spreadsheet vs ATS: Track Candidates for Free
Can a spreadsheet track candidates for free? When a sheet is enough, where it breaks, and what a free ATS plan adds, with the TalentsGrid Free plan limits.
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Best Free ATS for Startups: Honest Comparison
Compare free ATS options for startups and solo recruiters: job and candidate limits of Breezy HR, Zoho Recruit and TalentsGrid, as of October 2026.
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Structured Interview Notes and Scorecards for Startups
How to write structured interview notes and scorecards: rate specific areas, force a recommendation, back every rating with an example, log each round.
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How to Build a Hiring Pipeline in 6 Steps
Build a hiring pipeline step by step: five stages plus a closed lane, what to do at each, a weekly rhythm, and how to run it in TalentsGrid.
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Stop Asking Candidates to Resend Their CV
Asking a candidate to resend their CV costs you credibility. Here is how to keep one CV in one place, with a short checklist you can set up today.
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How to Filter and Search Your Candidate Database
A practical guide to filtering and searching a candidate database: clean data, boolean search, range filters, saved views and asking a copilot for a shortlist.
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