Add candidates
Candidates live on the Candidates page. Click Add New Candidate and choose Manual Entry, Bulk Import, or Parse Resumes; with the LinkedIn Chrome extension installed, you can also save candidates straight from LinkedIn profiles.
Manual entry
Use Manual Entry to add one candidate at a time.
On the Candidates page, click Add New Candidate and choose Manual Entry (Add a candidate manually).
Enter First Name and Last Name. Both are required; Email is optional, but we check it for validity when you provide one.
Save the candidate. Happlicant confirms with Candidate created successfully.
Bulk import
Bulk import brings a spreadsheet of candidates into Happlicant in one pass. It accepts CSV files.
Click Add New Candidate and choose Bulk Import (Import multiple candidates). This opens the Bulk Candidate Upload page.
Work through the three steps: Upload File, Match Columns, and Review & Save.
First Name, Last Name, and Email are required columns. The optional columns are:
Phone Number
Location
Resume URL
Image URL
LinkedIn URL
Current Company
Job Title
Blurb
Resume parsing
Parse Resumes turns resume files into candidate profiles automatically. Details on AI resume parsing.
Click Add New Candidate and choose Parse Resumes.
Upload up to 10 resumes at once: DOC, DOCX, or PDF, up to 30 MB per file. You can select multiple files or drag and drop them.
Review and edit each parsed profile. Resume formatting can affect the extraction, so check the details before you rely on them.
Save candidates from LinkedIn
With the Chrome extension installed, you can save a LinkedIn profile as a candidate without copying anything over.
Open the person's individual LinkedIn profile page.
Click Save Candidate.
Add notes and tags, and assign the candidate to a job.
The extension works only on individual profile pages, not on search-result or company pages. It reads the data publicly shown on the page, so if details are missing, refresh the page or fill them in manually.