The moment it happens

Announce new Lever candidates in Slack

Your hiring channel gets each new candidate's name and the role they applied for as soon as they come in.

Runs: The moment it happens
Apps: Lever
AI: Not needed
Access: opportunities read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: when a new candidate is added in Lever, post their name, the posting they applied to and a link to their profile in #recruiting on Slack.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Recruiters know that good candidates get several interviews lined up within days. In Lever, a new applicant lands in the pipeline silently, and a hiring manager who checks the list on Friday may find a strong engineer who applied on Monday and has already been snapped up. Slow first contact is a major reason companies lose candidates they would have hired.

When Lever records a new opportunity, it sends an event to ClickRuntime. The automation fetches the full opportunity, including the candidate's name, the role they applied for and the source, and posts it to Slack. The hiring team sees each applicant as they arrive, in a channel dedicated to that role or to recruiting overall.

Startups with a lean recruiting function and hiring managers who review candidates themselves tend to use it most.

What you get out of it

Strong candidates are contacted quickly
The first company to reply often wins the interview. A Slack message when someone applies lets a recruiter send a screening invite the same day, before competitors have even opened the file.
Hiring managers stay close to the pipeline
A manager who sees each name in Slack feels involved without logging in to Lever. They can flag someone promising or reject an obvious mismatch early, which keeps the process moving.
Source quality becomes visible
The source appears with each candidate, so the team learns whether referrals, job boards or a careers page bring the best applicants. That guides where to spend the recruiting budget.
Nobody assumes someone else saw it
When the team sees the same notice, one person can claim the screening in a thread. That avoids duplicate outreach and the equally common case of no outreach at all.
Bottlenecks in review are exposed
If applicants arrive daily but wait a week for any reaction, the channel makes the delay obvious. It supports a conversation about review capacity with real examples. It helps managers make the case for more screening time.

How it works

What happens, step by step

When a new candidate is added in Lever, Lever tells ClickRuntime straight away.
ClickRuntime looks up the role they applied for.
A message with the candidate's name, the role and a link to their profile is posted to your Slack hiring channel.

Before it runs live

Connect Lever
Paste your automation's link into the other app's webhook settings

What you get

RunsThe moment it happens

Announce new Lever candidates in Slackjust nowSucceeded

Slack · #recruitingNew candidate: Tomás Reyes applied to Senior Data Engineer https://hire.lever.co/candidates/7a1b2c3d

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Lever steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

new_candidate_alert.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_event, credentials, http, notify

def lever(path, **params):
    resp = http.get(f"https://api.lever.co/v1/{path}",
                    auth=(credentials.secret("LEVER_API_KEY"), ""), params=params)
    resp.raise_for_status()
    return resp.json()["data"]

@on_event
def handle(event):
    payload = event.json or {}
    if payload.get("event") != "applicationCreated":
        return {"posted": False}
    opp = lever(f"opportunities/{payload['data']['opportunityId']}", expand="applications")
    posting = next((a.get("posting") for a in opp.get("applications", []) if a.get("posting")), None)
    title = lever(f"postings/{posting}")["text"] if posting else "no posting"
    notify.slack(f"New candidate: {opp['name']} applied to {title}\n{opp['urls']['show']}", channel="#recruiting")
    return {"posted": True}

FAQ

Common questions

Can I post only applicants for specific roles?

Yes. The opportunity carries the posting it belongs to, so the automation can post only for certain roles, or send each role to its own channel. That keeps engineering applicants out of the sales channel and makes each channel useful to its owners.

Does the message include the candidate's resume?

It includes the details Lever provides in the opportunity, such as name, email and links, and can link to the candidate in Lever. Attaching a resume file to Slack is possible but not usually advisable, because it spreads personal data across more places than needed.

Is candidate data safe in a Slack channel?

Candidate information is personal data, so use a private channel with only the people who handle hiring and keep the message short. The Lever credentials are stored as secrets in ClickRuntime, and the post can be limited to name, role and a link back to Lever.

What permissions does it need?

opportunities read. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run for each event the app sends.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

The moment it happens