Automatically Rediscover Past Candidates from Lever

Are you fully leveraging your candidates database?

 Many users tell us they aren't maximizing the potential of their candidate database, which includes candidates evaluated in previous job openings. These candidates are already familiar with your company, making them more likely to respond, and they’ve often been screened, interviewed, or even received offers—giving you a head start.

Rediscovering candidates gives you a pool of pre-qualified talent for new roles and helps you reduce your time-to-hire by enabling early outreach, even before you publish the position. 🕑

, you can effortlessly analyze candidates from past roles using the same criteria as for current positions. Brainner's powerful filters allow you to refine candidates by:

How to Rediscover Candidates with Brainner

Follow these steps to import candidates from your database into a job:

1. Navigate to the Job. Open the job where you want to import candidates and click the 

 This will bring up the candidate import options.

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3. Use the Filters to Select Candidates from Lever.

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Candidates will be imported and analyzed in Brainner. They won’t automatically appear in Lever (opportunity will not be generated) until you advance them, ensuring only relevant candidates are added to your job, keeping your KPIs accurate and avoiding unrelated candidate placements.

For any questions, feel free to contact us at hello@brainner.ai.

How to Rediscover Candidates from your Database

Getting started with Lever - Everything you need to know to integrate your Brainner user to Lever.


Brainner is a platform that automates resume screening by using AI to analyze and sort candidates based on recruiter criteria. It seamlessly integrates with Lever, automatically syncing job listings and candidate resumes. This guide will provide you with all the information you need to connect both solutions effectively. 

Check out Brainner's the following getting started video to learn how to configure the integration and start using the platform.

You must be a team or organisation with admin rights in Brainner and Super Admin rights in Lever to install this integration.

1. Log in to your Brainner account and click on your 

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5. Sign-in to your Lever account to connect both platforms. Use your usual Lever credentials to log in and authorize the integration.

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As you can see from the image below, Brainner will need these permissions to: import jobs, candidates, tags, stages, forms, sources and rejection reasons automatically from Lever, and post the results and update stages in the candidate’s profile in Lever.

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There are still a few quick steps we will need you to take to configure Lever for this integration. 

Though you have activated the connection, there are still a few steps you need to take to complete the configuration.

After authorizing the integration, the settings window will appear automatically in Brainner. If by any reason you were not redirected to the settings window, you can get there by clicking on your 

7. In the ATS tab, configure the integration settings and click Apply Changes.

If you toggle all the settings, you will start receiving jobs and candidates automatically. Jobs will be sent from Lever automatically the first time that a candidate applies, regardless of whether it is old or new.

When you start using Brainner, we suggest disabling the ‘Auto-generate jobs’ setting, as shown in the screenshot below. This enables you to manually import jobs, giving you better control over the job creation process in Brainner, while still ensuring that candidates are automatically received for those jobs. 

If you want to import both jobs and candidates manually, you can simply turn off all the settings.

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8. A window will open highlighting the next step, that is configuring the Webhook in Lever. A webhook is a technical term that describes the action of notifying the Brainner platform of new candidates automatically. 

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The integration adds a new webhook configuration for when a new application is created. This webhook is disabled on Lever by default, so you must enable it. Once enabled, Lever will communicate to Brainner the required information to send new jobs and candidates.

12. If they are not already toggled, toggle all the webhooks related to Brainner.

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This part of the guide will explain how to start using the integration. 

, the process starts with the Job Posting.

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3. Search and Select the job to import from the list displayed, and click 

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4. In the Criteria Tab, you will find all the requirements automatically extracted from the Job Description. It is important to check that the requirements meet your recruitment needs. You can add, delete or modify any of the requirements.

For guidance, please refer to our quick tutorial video 

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5. If it is a new job and no candidates have applied yet, you will start receiving candidates automatically from Lever. 

For a previous job where candidates have already applied in Lever, you will need to click ‘Import from Lever’ in the Candidates Tab to retrieve them. After this, any new candidates who apply will also be received automatically.

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6. Select if you want to re-evaluate existing candidates or not, use the filters if needed  and click ‘Import Candidates’.

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7. Candidates will be imported, analyzed, scored and ranked automatically based on the defined criteria. The analysis will be displayed in a table format and an individual report will be available for each candidate. 

New candidates applying to the position in Lever, will be imported, analyzed and added to the report.

For more information please refer to our tutorial video on 

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8. Archive reasons and stages will be imported from Lever and you will be able to archive or advance the candidates individually or massively. These information will be updated automatically in the candidate in Lever.

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9. In Lever, in the ‘Forms’ tab of the candidate, you will find the score provided by Brainner and a link to the report.

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Getting started with Lever

In this guide you will know how to fully configure your Lever integration with Brainner.

*Note: You must be a team or organisation with admin rights in Brainner and Super Admin rights in Lever to install this integration.

As you can see from the image below, Brainner will need these permissions to: import jobs, candidates and rejection reasons automatically from Lever, and post the results and update stages in the candidate’s profile in Lever.

12. If they aren’t already enabled, turn on all options related to Brainner, including “Application Created,” “Candidate State Change,” “Candidate Archive Change,” etc.

Setting up the Lever integration

Save Time, Hire Faster and Improve Accuracy with Brainner integration for Lever

3. Select the job to import from the list displayed and click 

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6. Select if you want to re-evaluate existing candidates or not, and click ‘Import [X number] Candidates’.

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Using Lever Integration

Have you explored the depth of insights available in the Candidates Report on Brainner? This powerful tool is designed to streamline your resume screening process, making your recruitment efforts more efficient and effective. 

How to navigate the Candidates Report? 

Need guidance on how to publish a Job on Brainner and Linkedin?  Let us help you kickstart the process with this quick and easy guide.

How to Publish a Job? Linkedin?

This tutorial guides you through customizing your recruitment criteria with Brainner, ensuring you focus on the requirements that enhance the effectiveness of the resume screening process.

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