The Gusto Recruiting feature is included on Complete, Concierge, and Select plans—admins can upgrade at any time.
If you've been added as a hiring team member for an open role, you'll get an email letting you know.
Hiring team notifications
- You'll be notified by email when new applicants apply—we'll also remind you to complete the related scorecard(s) from the Recruiting dashboard.
- On your Dashboard in Gusto (when signed in as an employee), you'll have access to the Recruiting dashboard by clicking View applicants under the “Recruiting” headline.
Review and manage applicants
- From your Dashboard in your employee profile, scroll to the “Recruiting” headline and click View applicants.
- Click the name of the applicant, or View from the “Actions” column to view the applicant’s submission.
- If desired, leave a comment on the right-hand side of the page by entering some text and clicking Save comment.
- Comments will save to the application itself and be visible to all others who can review the application (admins and any hiring team members).
- To move a candidate to a different stage, click the dropdown next to the "Move stage” headline. You can move an applicant to one of the stages below—only admins with the required access can officially hire a candidate:
- Interviewing
- Moving a candidate to an interview stage will allow anyone on the hiring committee to submit a scorecard for this candidate. This is also when the hiring team will get an email notification to complete their scorecards.
- Once a candidate has been moved to this stage, the hiring team can change the status to one of the below:
- Not hired
- Reminder: only admins can move a candidate to the "Hired" status.
- Dropped out
- Not interviewed
- Dropped out
- We won't send any communication to the applicant if the status is changed to "Dropped out."
- Review the candidate, determine if you'd like to proceed with an interview, and if so, fill out the scorecard—more information below.
Fill out a scorecard
Complete the interview with the candidate, then fill out the scorecard.
- If you're not already in the applicant profile, scroll to the "Recruiting" headline of your Dashboard (in your employee account), and click View applicants. This will take you to your Recruiting dashboard.
- You can also click the link in the email from Gusto.
- Next to an applicant name, under the “Action” column, click View.
- You can also click an applicant’s name.
- Make sure the candidate is in the "Interviewing" stage.
- Click Fill out scorecard.
- Enter your review in the text box.
- Select one of the following as a recommendation on the candidate:
- Strong no
- No
- Yes
- Stong yes
- Click Submit.
You can edit your scorecard up until the candidate has been moved out of the interview stage.