Using Workable’s Gmail integration, you can easily email candidates from your Gmail or company Google Apps account and sync the communication with Workable.
Take that a step further with an automatic import of candidate contact details in your Google Contacts account. You can set this up via the integration with Zapier.
Zapier has a free account for basic use. For heavy use, there are tiered pricing options.
To get started, sign in to Zapier and create a new Zap.
1. Set the trigger
We need to tell Zapier that when a new candidate is received in Workable (the trigger), a contact should be created in Google Contacts (the action).
- Choose Workable as the trigger app, and then New candidate as the trigger event.
- Connect your Workable account.
- Choose your Workable account, the job (leave blank if you want all applicants to be added to your contacts), and set the stage to Applied.
2. Set the actions
Add Contact to Group:
In this example, we created a new group/label in the Google Contacts account called "Candidates". You can do this yourself by going to Google Contacts and clicking on 'Create Label' in the menu on the left-hand side.
- Select Google Contacts as the action app and choose Add Contact to Groups as the action event.
- Sign in to your Google Contacts account.
- Configure the action by choosing the Contact and Group (based on the label you created) that candidates should be added to.
Create Contact:
- Select Google Contacts as the action app and choose Create Contact as the action event.
- Sign in to your Google Contacts account.
- Set the information you'd like to import for each field by selecting a preset option for the fields.
3. Activate the Zap
Test the Zap and then click Publish. Now when new candidates apply they'll be added to your Google Contacts.