Setting up your calendar for Autopilot

With CareerPlug's Hire plan, Autopilot — CareerPlug's automated interview scheduling tool — is automatically added to all your hiring processes and open jobs. That means there's only one step before you're ready to start using Autopilot. Set your availability and let Autopilot start doing the work of scheduling interviews so you can get back to managing your business!

You have two different options to set your availability:

• Set Weekly Hours for your CareerPlug built-in calendar
• Connect a calendar account to CareerPlug

Set Weekly Hours for your CareerPlug built-in calendar

Every account with a subscription to CareerPlug's Hire plan includes a built-in calendar that can be used for interview scheduling. Set your availability via Weekly Hours and let Autopilot take care of the rest!

1. Click the Set Your Availability button in your top navigation bar. You'll be redirected to the Calendars tab of My Profile (person icon).

2. Set your Weekly Hours for interviews using the calendar. Click any of the green ("Available") blocks on your calendar to deselect them and make yourself unavailable for interviews on that day/time. Weekly Hours will default to 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Friday in your account's default time zone.

3. Set your Minimum Interview Notice using the drop-down menu. This is the minimum notice you require when an applicant schedules an interview. Minimum Interview Notice will default to 1 hour.

4. Once you're availability is set, click the Save button at the bottom of the page.

Now that you've set up your built-in calendar, you can start using Autopilot to automatically schedule interviews with your applicants!

Connect a calendar account to CareerPlug

Besides the built-in calendar, you can also set your Autopilot availability by connecting an external calendar account to CareerPlug.

Watch this video to learn how to connect a calendar account to CareerPlug, or follow the instructions below:1. From your Dashboard, navigate to My Profile (person icon) > Calendars.

2. Click the Edit button in the top-right corner of the page.

3. Scroll down to the Calendar accounts section, find your calendar account provider, and click the associated button.

4. On the following page, click the checkbox to agree to the terms and allow CareerPlug to access your calendar account.

5. Click the Link [Provider] Account button.

6. Select the calendar account you want to connect to CareerPlug.

7. Click the Continue button. 

8. Click the checkbox to allow CareerPlug to access your calendar.

9. Click the Continue button to finish connecting your calendar.

Now that you've connected your calendar account to CareerPlug, it's time to set your availability!

10. Set your Weekly Hours for interviews using the calendar. Click any of the green ("Available") blocks on your calendar to deselect them and make yourself unavailable for interviews on that day/time. Weekly Hours will default to 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Friday in your account's default time zone.

11. Set your Minimum Interview Notice using the drop-down menu. This is the minimum notice you require when an applicant schedules an interview. Minimum Interview Notice will default to 1 hour.

12. Click the Save button at the bottom of the page to finish setting your availability.

Now that you've connected your calendar account to CareerPlug, you can start using Autopilot to automatically schedule interviews with your applicants!

Can I connect more than one calendar account?

1. To connect additional calendar accounts to CareerPlug, click the Add calendar account button and follow steps 3 through 9 above.

2. Verify the Included calendars you'd like Autopilot to consider when scheduling interviews with applicants. This will default to including all connected calendars.

If you want Autopilot to only consider one calendar for scheduling purposes (or a select few, if you have more than two calendars connected), click the plus icon (+) and select the email address(es) you want Autopilot to use from the drop-down menu.

3. Select your Primary Calendar using the drop-down menu. This is the calendar where Autopilot will automatically add scheduled interviews. This will default to the first calendar account that you connect to CareerPlug.

4. Click the Save button at the bottom of the page to update your availability.