FAQ (Frequently asked questions)

hijob is the technology leader in AI solutions for recruiting and talent development. And your AI streaming service for talents.

Meaning: hijob „streams“ suitable talents to your jobs. Automatically and quickly. Without you having to search for them manually.

This is how you transform time-consuming active sourcing or „post & pray“ into time-saving automatic sourcing without manual effort.

hijob works in a very uncomplicated way:
You send us your vacancies. We identify the qualifications you’re looking for and find suitable talents.

Depending on the urgency of your vacancy, we have various automated as well as manually complemented solutions to activate and interest talents for you. Without any manual search effort for you.

And if you wish, we can also pre-qualify the talents for you personally, so that your time management remains manageable.

hijob offers 3 different services, which you can combine as you wish: Select, Stream & smaile.

You can find more detailed product information under the corresponding tabs.

There are job titles, competences, training or study programmes for which there are a seemingly endless number of different names. No one can get through that. The hijob AI keeps track for you and recognises which job titles, which experience or which studies match your qualifications. And it also tells you why.

hijob’s Artificial intelligence…

• understands CVs coherently.
• analyses thousands of profiles in just a few minutes.
• recognises patterns of sought-after qualifications and skills that are difficult to identify manually.
• ensures that you don’t miss out on any suitable talent and that you can contact them quickly and easily.
• ensures you save time and money.

Our AI analyses +100,000 profiles of active hijob candidates in seconds
+ MCP 

With the Stream and smaile products, we include an additional >4 million passive candidates from Germany.

About 80% of all talents at hijob have an academic background. 

The pool is composed as follows:

• (working) Students: approx. 15 %
• Skilled workers: approx. 65 %
• Managers/C-Level: approx. 20 %

We gain contact with our talents through various channels:

1. Multiposting (MCP) with more than 80 channels
2. Programmatic Social-Media Marketing
3. External, connected talent pools
4. Our treesforjobs initiative, see https://www.treesforjobs.org/
5. Cooperation partners such as Augsburger Allgemeine and We are Developers

We use various measures to ensure that requested talents hear about your request and respond to it – e.g. through email reminders.
In most cases this is successful – but unfortunately not always. This can have different reasons, but we cannot force anyone’s luck…

smaile is Active Sourcing as a Service.
We provide you with a shortlist of hand-picked talents. Each of them is ready for a job interview; because our talent managers have already checked for you their willingness to change, salary requirements, willingness to relocate and all other relevant factors in a personal interview.

smaile enables you to quickly and conveniently receive a steady flow of applicants who precisely match your qualification requirements. The basis for this is a detailed briefing with you.

That’s AI Sourcing Service. For companies that don’t have time for active sourcing, but also don’t want to use a recruitment agency.

1. minimum time required:  
   Our AI filters out the most suitable candidates from our talent pool.
   -> More quality instead of quantity than with recruitment agencies!
2. maximum speed:
   In a few minutes, we generate a suitable longlist with our AI, which recruiters would have to pre-select manually.
3. skill-based finding instead of semantic search:
   Our AI does not use job titles or keywords in the search, but focuses entirely on the hard skills – so only talents with the right qualifications are suggested.
4. detailed briefing:
   You tell us which qualifications you place particularly high value on and how strictly our AI should proceed with your search.
   We also note down other general conditions such as travel requirements, desired salaries and soft skills, which we clarify in a personal interview with the talents.
5. firm budget planning:
   You want to hire all the talents suggested? Go ahead! There are no further costs.
6. valuable feedback:
   You receive feedback from candidates on how to increase the attractiveness of your vacancies.

We assure you that with our AI – which is the most precise in Europe – we find the most promising talent for your conditions and for your company.

You’ll  receive a shortlist of hand-picked talents who are top-qualified and ready for an interview. Parameters such as willingness to change, salary expectations, willingness to travel, etc. have already been clarified with them. All you have to do is make an appointment.

However, if a job interview does not take place or does not go well, this is beyond our control. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that we’ll be able to fill the position.

Of course, we are committed to ensuring that you don’t miss out on any suitable talent. To this end, we coordinate the qualification requirements of the job advertisements very precisely with you in a personal exchange. You decide how narrowly or coarsely our filters are set and what we should pay particular attention to.

In addition, our experienced talent managers check the AI search results and contact only the most suitable talents for your positions.

You’ll only find talents on your shortlist who perfectly match your vacancy and who fulfill all other framework conditions (willingness to travel, salary expectations, etc.).

No, our editorial team will be happy to do that for you. You have no manual effort at all.
You simply arrange the job interviews with the talents on your shortlist.

With „Stream“, our human talent managers reduce the machine selection of candidates (longlist) to a shortlist for you, on which there are only active, interested talents.

We analyse over 4.5 million active and passive profiles and approach the best talents for you personally – and thus send you active applications.
We help you to identify the most suitable talents from over 4 million and to personally get them excited about your vacancy. Our AI creates the longlist based on your qualifications. We contact the talents for you – in person, by phone, via LinkedIn and other portals.

You can purchase the stream contingents in convenient packages. Qualified reporting is of course included.

We assure you that with our recruiting AI – which is the most accurate in Europe – we find the most promising talents for your conditions and for your company. In addition, our experienced talent managers will boost the project for you. However, we cannot guarantee that we’ll be able to fill your position.

But: You will always receive feedback from us as to why candidates decide not to apply.

Of course, we are committed to ensuring that you do not miss out on any suitable talent. To this end, we coordinate the qualification requirements of the job advertisements very precisely with you in a personal exchange. You decide how narrowly or coarsely our filters are set and what we should pay particular attention to.

In addition, our experienced talent managers review the AI search results and contact only the most suitable talents for your positions.

1. Briefing
   A team member of our ad management team will work with you to define the qualification requirements of your vacancy(ies) and determine how narrowly or broadly the search parameters should be set. 
2. Matching
   After we have entered your job into our system, our AI becomes active and creates a longlist of suitable talents.
3. Contacting talents
   As soon as there are talents on the longlist, our talent management will contact the candidates for you and send them an email with the corresponding vacancy. 
4. Shortlist
   Candidates who then apply to you will be visible to you on the shortlist.
   Our work is finished here and you enter into dialogue with the talents.

No, our editorial team will be happy to do that for you.
You have no manual effort at all.
You simply check the talents on your shortlist and contact the most exciting of them.

“Select“ gives you access to a longlist of suitable talent profiles that our AI filters out from our pool of >100k candidates. 

You also receive active applications via multiposting.

This creates a longlist from which you select the candidates you want to request for a job interview with 1 click.

We assure you that with our AI – which is the most precise in all of Europe – we will find the most promising talent for your conditions and for your company.

However, we cannot give a staffing guarantee.

Select is designed in such a way that the effort for you is limited exclusively to viewing and evaluating the talent profiles suggested by us.

 On average, working with hijob Select takes 30 minutes of your time per week.

Of course, we are committed to ensuring that you do not miss out on any suitable talent.

To this end, we coordinate the qualification requirements of the job advertisements very precisely with you in a personal exchange. You decide how narrowly or coarsely our filters are set and what we should pay particular attention to.

This is an iterative process that gets better and better as we work together. After a few passes, we have a good understanding of your focus and what our hijob AI has to take into account.

The hijob AI is the most accurate in Europe and evolves every day.
In some cases, even it can still learn something.

There is always the possibility to readjust and optimise the matching results by assigning qualification parameters.

If you ever wonder about your talent suggestions, please be sure to contact us. The better we know you, your wishes and needs, the more satisfied you will be with your results.

You can reach us at select@hijob.me.

Yes, for this we only need a direct contact person in your company. In principle, we can connect any system.
Currently connected are: smartrecruiters, d.vinci, softgarden, personio and greenhouse.

If you use one of the mentioned applicant management systems and want to link it with hijob Select, proceed like this:

• Go to your hijob recruiting tool.
• Click on „Settings“ on the left.
• You’ll now see a menu from which you can select your BMS.
• Confirm your selection by clicking on „Set up“.

Your ATS is not displayed in the selection menu? Then there is probably no connection of your BMS to hijob yet.
But that can be changed. We are constantly adding new systems. Feel free to give us a hint about which integration we should take care of next.

No, our editorial team will be happy to do that for you.
You have no manual effort at all.