🤖 Introduction
Welcome to Sidekick, the AI assistant built into the Tribepad ATS that helps you to create better jobs, speed up candidate applications, and make smarter hiring decisions. This guide gives a clear, practical overview of Sidekick’s capabilities and then walks you step-by-step through each feature so you and your team can start using it confidently.
➡️ What Sidekick brings to the ATS
When creating a job
- AI insights to help you shape the role and requirements.
- Suggested salary ranges to align your job with market expectations.
- A suggested job description you can edit and publish.
- Recommended skills for the role that you can add to the vacancy.
On the recruiter’s side (after application)
- Candidate strengths & weaknesses analysis produced by Sidekick.
- Suggested interview questions tailored to the candidate and role.
- Matched skills list and a focused candidate summary.
- The ability to ask Sidekick questions about a candidate directly from the application view for quick, conversational insights.
The rest of this guide breaks each feature within Sidekick down into short, actionable steps with screenshots and tips so you can get the most value from Sidekick straight away.
✨AI Insights On Job Edit/Creation
Sidekick has the ability to give you various insights on your job. To set this up, whilst on the job edit or job creation section of the ATS, click the "AI Insights" tickbox.
Whilst editing or creating a job, Sidekick also has the ability to generate a suggested salary for your role based on the job title. To do this simply click on "Generate Salary".
Once you have completed the rest of your initial job creation steps, scroll to the bottom of the page & click "Next".
🔮 Drafting Job Descriptions With Sidekick AI
When creating your Job Description, you have the option to use Sidekick to help draft this for you. To do this, simply click the "Draft with AI" buttton.
You will now see an AI generated job description created for you - if needed you can also make edits to this yourself also.
If you are unhappy with the first AI generated job description you have the ability to regenerate this. To do this simply click the "Regenerate" buttton.
After clicking regenerate, you will now see a second draft of your AI suggested job description.
➕ Add AI Generated Skills To A Job
Once you have added your job description, scroll to the bottom of the page where you will see the option to generate AI suggested skills for this role.
To do this, click on the "Generate with AI" button.
You will now see a list of suggested skills for your job role, with a list of low, medium or high priority status. You will also notice that you can delete skills.
To change the priority of a skill, simply click on low, medium or high - as appropriate.
Repeat as needed.
Once you are happy with your selections, click "Next".
💫 Candidate AI Insights
Whilst on a job, you will see an AI Application Score next to your candidates. If you hover over this you will see a quick overview. If you would like to see a full view, simply click on the score, to open up their mini profile.
Tribepad supports the following file types for successful CV parsing when using Sidekick:
- .png
- .jpg
- .jpeg
- .bmp
- .doc
- .docx
- .odt
- .rtf
- .odp
- ppt
- .pptx
If needed, you have the ability to remove your AI score from a job. To do this, click the "Remove AI Score" button.
As you can see, the AI score will now be hidden. Please Note: this will not hide AI insights from the mini profile, only the score on the candidate list.
To add an AI Score back onto your candidate list, simply re-click the "Add AI Score" button.
You’ll now see a Sidekick Feedback section on the candidate’s profile. This gives you a full set of AI insights, including:
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A candidate score
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A full strengths and weaknesses analysis
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Suggested interview questions
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Matched skills and a detailed summary
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The option to ask Sidekick AI questions about the candidate directly
To ask Sidekick questions about the candidate, click the "Ask AI-powered questions about this candidate's profile to get insights" field.
Type your question, and click "Ask".
You will now see an answer based on the question that you asked.
If you scroll down, you can read a full summary on the candidate.
Followed by a summary of "Matched Skills" and a Strengths & Weaknesses Analysis.
Sidekick will also generate a selection of potential Interview questions for you to use based on the candidates profile and role that they have applied for.
Once you get to the bottom of the mini profile you will see the option to give Sidekick feedback. This helps the tool to improve, the more you use it and feedback the better it will be.
