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Candidate Rediscovery

Unearth past interview gold

Jennifer Steinker avatar
Written by Jennifer Steinker
Updated over a week ago

Why Candidate Rediscovery Matters

Hiring teams spend a lot of time and money sourcing candidates - and often, amazing talent is already sitting right there in your ATS, just waiting to be rediscovered.

The problem we're solving:

  • Manually digging through past candidates is time-consuming and inefficient.

  • Existing rediscovery tools in most ATS platforms rely heavily on memory recall or complex filtering/Boolean searches.

  • But here's the kicker: candidates you've already interviewed convert to hires at 2x the rate of cold leads.

Watch a video of Candidate Rediscovery

How BrightHire Does It Better

At BrightHire, we think rediscovery should be smarter & faster.

🧠 Instead of just scraping resumes, BrightHire taps into the rich context of interview transcripts to match candidates with new roles.

We ran a few tests and found:

  • Matching on just resumes? Meh.

  • Matching on just interview transcripts? Better.

  • Matching on both? Best. 🚀

BrightHire uses both resume and transcript data to resurface candidates with the highest potential for the job.

💡 This isn't your typical keyword match — we're using actual interview data to rank quality.

How It Works (Step-by-Step)

When a new position is opened in your ATS (Greenhouse only for now), BrightHire jumps into action:

  1. Enable it on this BrightHire Settings Page

  2. Match check: We scan for similar past roles.

  3. Candidate check: We look for candidates with 2+ recorded BrightHire interviews.

  4. JD parsing: We parse the new job description and compare it to past interview and resume data.
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  5. Smart resurfacing:

    • We rank past candidates based on how well they match the new role

    • We factor in interview transcripts, resumes, and historical scorecards
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  6. No-go filters: We automatically exclude candidates who:

    • Were rejected in the last 9 months for lack of skills or not meeting the hiring bar

    • Declined offers in the last 9 months due to role misalignment, comp issues, etc.

  7. Reconnect

    • I you identify a candidate you'd like to reconnect with, click the "reconnect" button

FAQs & FYIs

✅ Available for Greenhouse customers only (for now)
⏳ Activation takes a little time — rediscovery only works once candidates have 2+ BrightHire interviews
📼 Want to see it in action?

❓ Questions - Reach out to [email protected]

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