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For hiring managers who own the req

AI Candidate Sourcing for Hiring Managers

Own your requisition from role context to shortlist. Describe the role in your own words, source ranked candidates, review structured SAM interview reports, and hand qualified candidates into your team's hiring process.

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AI sources and screens against your role context. People decide who advances.

Hiring manager challenges

You own the req, but not always the pipeline

Hiring managers carry the outcome of an open role while sourcing and first screens often sit with someone else's queue.

Accountable for the role, waiting on the pipeline

The open seat affects your team every week, but candidate flow depends on searches you do not run yourself.

Recruiter bandwidth spread across many reqs

Recruiting partners juggle many requisitions at once, so a single role can wait for attention.

Role context lost in translation

What the role really needs gets shortened into a job description, and the shortlist drifts from what you asked for.

First-round evidence that is hard to compare

Notes from different screeners in different formats make it hard to see why one candidate should advance over another.

Live ConnectDevs workflow

Define role context → source a shortlist → SAM interview → review evidence → hand off

Only capabilities that are live in ConnectDevs today. You decide who advances into your team's process.

Source from your context

Source from your context

See the hiring manager workflow

From your role context to an evidence-backed shortlist you can take into your team's hiring process.

Describe the req in your own words

Enter the role, outcomes, experience, and location. Scout ranks relevant public profiles against the context you gave it.

Describe the req in your own words

Send shortlisted candidates a SAM interview

Every candidate gets a secure interview link via email and answers the same role-specific questions.

Send shortlisted candidates a SAM interview

Review reports before anyone advances

Compare transcripts, strengths, and follow-up areas, then export what your team needs for the next step.

Review reports before anyone advances
Handoff into your process

Move qualified candidates into the process your team already runs

ConnectDevs covers sourcing and first-round evidence. The rest of your hiring process stays where it is.

Review the interview report

Read each candidate's SAM transcript and report before deciding who should move forward.

Export a report as a PDF

Download a candidate's interview report as a PDF to keep with your own hiring notes.

Export the interview list as a CSV

Download the interview list for a role as a CSV file to work with in your own tools.

Continue in your existing process

Move the candidates you want to advance into your team's next interview stages. ConnectDevs does not integrate directly with applicant tracking systems.

Hiring manager recruiting software

What Hiring Managers Should Require From an AI Recruiter

An AI recruiter for hiring managers should let the person who owns a requisition define role context directly, source a ranked shortlist from it, collect the same structured first-round evidence for every candidate, and hand qualified candidates into the team's existing hiring process, with people deciding who advances.

ConnectDevs fits hiring managers who want more direct control over sourcing and first-round evidence for a role they own. Evaluate it against one open requisition.

Hiring manager needs vs. the ConnectDevs workflow

This page focuses on hiring managers who own a requisition. Founders hiring without a recruiting team should see the startup founder page.

Hiring manager needWhat to testConnectDevs stageYour checkpoint
Role context preservedShortlist matches what you describedScoutApprove the criteria
Candidate flow for your reqRelevance of ranked candidatesScout + enrichmentChoose who is invited to interview
Comparable first-round evidenceOne question set for everyone on the reqSAM interviewsReview reports before advancing anyone
Clean handoffReports and lists you can take to your teamPDF report + CSV exportMove candidates into your existing process

AI recruiter for hiring managers, alongside your recruiting team

ConnectDevs gives the hiring manager direct access to sourcing and first-round evidence for their own role. It works alongside the process your recruiting team runs, not as a replacement for it.

Candidate sourcing software for hiring managers

Scout converts role context into search criteria across 800M+ public professional profiles. It is most useful where candidates have a public professional footprint. You still confirm material qualifications before anyone advances.

Hiring manager recruiting software pricing

Plans start at $99/month with transparent, flat-rate pricing. No hidden fees, no per-hire commissions, and no percentage-based markups. You can upgrade or downgrade anytime — no contracts or commitments. Compare credits, emails, and seats on the pricing page.

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Source a shortlist for the req you own

Start free or book a demo with an open requisition, and review the shortlist and interview evidence before it goes to your team.

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FAQ

AI Candidate Sourcing for Hiring Managers — FAQs

Answers for hiring managers who own a requisition about role context, evidence, handoff, pricing, and who decides.

What is AI candidate sourcing for hiring managers?

AI candidate sourcing for hiring managers is software that lets the person who owns a requisition turn their own role context into a candidate search and shortlist. ConnectDevs Scout searches 800M+ public professional profiles from that context, SAM runs structured first-round interviews, and the hiring manager reviews the evidence before candidates move into the team's hiring process.

How is this different from my recruiter's tools?

ConnectDevs works alongside your recruiter's process rather than replacing it. As the hiring manager, you know what the role needs, so you can describe it directly, review a ranked shortlist, and read structured interview evidence yourself. Candidates you want to advance then go into the process your recruiting team already runs.

How do I define role context?

Describe the role in plain language: what the person will own, the outcomes that matter in the first months, the experience you need, location, and any must-haves. Scout uses that context to build search criteria, and SAM uses it to ask role-specific interview questions.

What evidence do I review before advancing a candidate?

You review ranked profiles with the context Scout surfaced, enrichment where you use it, and SAM interview transcripts and reports with structured role-specific interview evidence for recruiter review. Every candidate for the role is asked the same job-related questions, so you can compare them on the same basis.

How do I hand candidates to my team's hiring process?

Export a candidate's SAM interview report as a PDF, or export the interview list for a role as a CSV file, then move the candidates you want to advance into your team's existing hiring process. ConnectDevs does not integrate directly with applicant tracking systems.

Does ConnectDevs reject candidates automatically?

No. ConnectDevs does not reject, advance, or hire candidates on its own, and it does not run background checks. It organizes job-related evidence so you can review candidates consistently. Hiring decisions stay with people.

Where can I see pricing?

Plans start at $99/month with transparent, flat-rate pricing. No hidden fees, no per-hire commissions, and no percentage-based markups. You can upgrade or downgrade anytime — no contracts or commitments. Compare plans, credits, and seats against the reqs you own on the pricing page.

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Related ConnectDevs pages

The product pages this hiring manager workflow builds on.