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The profile acts as your login for accessing your company profile.</p> <p>In addition, a user profile should be filled out properly so that candidates know who they are speaking with at the company.</p> <p>To gain access to an existing company, please follow this guide: <a href="//help.wellfound.com/article/720-how-can-i-create-a-new-company-or-access-an-existing-one">How do I gain access or start a company profile?</a></p> <h1>STEP 2</h1> <h2>Start a company profile</h2> <p>Please click <a href="https://wellfound.com/onboarding/recruit/">here</a> and follow the onboarding steps to start a new company.</p> <p>Following this guide, you can always make additional changes later: <a href="//help.wellfound.com/article/711-how-do-i-edit-my-company-profile">How do I edit my company profile?</a></p> <h1>STEP 3</h1> <h2>Add Job Posts</h2> <p>You can post as many jobs as you like for free when using Wellfound</p> <p><strong class="">Please follow this guide:</strong><a href="//help.wellfound.com/article/712-post-a-job">How do I post a job?</a></p> <br> <p>We suggest promoting your jobs to increase their visibility on our platform.</p> <br> <p><strong class="">Please follow this guide:</strong><a href="//help.wellfound.com/article/717-what-is-a-job-promotion-and-how-do-we-use-one">How do I Promote a Job?</a></p> <h1>STEP 4</h1> <h2>Source for Candidates</h2> <p>Sourcing candidates directly, rather than waiting for applicants, provides a bigger pool of desirable candidates. Sourcing and reaching out to a candidate offers an extra edge to procure some of the best professionals in their field.</p> <br> <p>Please follow this guide: <a href="//help.wellfound.com/article/722-how-do-i-use-wellfound-source-successfully">How do I Source candidates successfully?</a></p> <h3>Add Curated</h3> <p>Hiring in the US, and want help recruiting by our professionals -- add Curated!</p> <p>Curated is Wellfound's premium recruiting tool that is an add-on on top of Source.</p> <br> <p>Please follow this guide: <a href="//help.wellfound.com/article/879-how-does-it-work">How does Curated work?</a></p> <h1>STEP 5</h1> <h2>Match with Candidates</h2> <p>Before you launch the full screening process, you must match a candidate.</p> <p>To match with applicants, you need to <strong class="">'Accept'</strong> their application.</p> <br> <p><strong class="">Please follow this guide:</strong> <a href="//help.wellfound.com/article/736-what-happens-when-i-click-accept-on-an-applicant">How do I 'Accept' an Applicant?</a></p> <br> <p>To match with sourced candidates, they need to 'Accept' your request to chat. Once they do, they will show up as matched automatically and appear in <strong class="">Track</strong> and <strong class="">Conversations.</strong> For an overall guide on matches, click <a href="//help.wellfound.com/article/730-matches">here</a>,</p> <h1>STEP 6</h1> <h2>Start the Screening Process</h2> <br> <p>There are a few ways to screen.</p> <p>1. Use our built-in ATS called <strong class="">Track.</strong></p> <p>Please follow this guide: <a href="//help.wellfound.com/article/713-how-do-i-use-track">How do I use Track?</a></p> <br> <p>2. Use an external ATS. This is usually chosen because your company already uses the ATS.</p> <p>Please follow this guide: <a href="//help.wellfound.com/article/729-how-to-set-up-ats">How do I setup an ATS?</a></p> <br> <p>3. Use our <strong class="">Conversations</strong> tool to connect with the candidate. To go to <strong class="">Conversations</strong> please click <a href="https://wellfound.com/recruit/conversations">here.</a></p> <br> <p>Please note that access to Recruit Pro provides advanced screening tools. For more information, check out this guide: <a href="//help.wellfound.com/article/710-what-is-recruit-pro">What is Recruit Pro? How much does it cost? 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