Recruiting technology

Automate candidate screening with Truffle and Zapier

Truffle’s Zapier integration gives your hiring stack superpowers. Automatically invite candidates, update your ATS, and alert managers the moment interviews are done.
Published on:
October 6, 2025
Updated on:
October 6, 2025

Truffle now connects to Zapier. The moment a candidate completes a Truffle one way interview, you can trigger updates in the tools you already use. And you can also kick off invites from those tools in the first place.

Hiring teams want two things. See the best candidates first and keep everyone aligned without extra meetings. Truffle surfaces your best candidates from structured async interview answers with clear summaries you can skim. Zapier turns that insight into action and makes the handoff repeatable.

What this launch does

There are two building blocks

  • Trigger
    Interview Completed
  • Action
    Invite Candidate

Use Invite Candidate to push a person’s details into Truffle and send them an interview for a specific job. Use Interview Completed to update the rest of your stack the instant results land. Works with thousands of apps like Slack, Teams, Google Sheets, Gmail, Outlook, Notion, Confluence, and many ATS tools

Why invites beat sharing a link

Here's why we recommend using invites over links:

  • Better tracking
    See who was invited and who finished without chasing people across systems
  • Cleaner funnels
    Tie each invite to a role so completion, scores, and follow ups map to one source of truth
  • Fewer ghosts
    Coming soon, improved candidate notifications that make invites harder to miss, including SMS

What you can automate today

  • When a candidate moves to a new lane in your ATS, auto invite
    Keep Truffle as the screen, your ATS as the record
  • When an interview completes, auto advance in your ATS
    Keep stages fresh and stop manual status updates
  • Ping hiring managers only on top matches
    Post a short update with name, role, match percent, and link to review
  • Send next steps or declines
    Templated emails that go out when a score meets your bar
  • Create a review card in Notion or Confluence
    Put the essentials and the Truffle link in one place for cross-functional reviewers

Five starter workflows

  1. ATS lane to auto invite
    Move a candidate to “Phone screen” in your ATS and Zapier runs Invite Candidate for the matching Truffle job
  2. Completion to stage change
    Use Interview Completed to move the candidate to “Assessment complete” and add the Truffle match percent
  3. Top match alert in Slack
    Fire a channel post when Interview Completed ≥ your threshold so managers jump in quickly
  4. Fast follow with scheduling
    High matches receive a templated email with your Calendly link
  5. Lightweight metrics sheet
    Append a Google Sheets row on every completion for quick weekly reporting

Set up in under 20 minutes

  1. Pick your Truffle job
    Add the job description, complete the short intake, choose your questions
  2. Build one Zap to invite
    Trigger from your ATS lane change → Invite Candidate to the Truffle job
  3. Build one Zap to react
    Trigger Interview Completed → add a filter for your bar → choose one action like Slack or ATS stage move
  4. Pilot on a live role
    Invite real candidates and share the review channel with the hiring manager. Lock your threshold where top candidates cluster

Speed up today, compound tomorrow

Early interviews are where hours disappear. Truffle gives you a ranked list from real answers. Zapier turns that signal into clean handoffs. The result is fewer meetings, faster shortlists, and clearer communication to candidates and managers. That tightens time to hire and protects your brand experience

Next up, we are prioritizing stronger candidate notifications that make invites even more effective, including SMS. Set your automations now so next quarter’s surge flows from invite to decision without babysitting

CEO & Co-Founder
Sean Griffith
Author

Sean began his career in leadership at Best Buy Canada before scaling SimpleTexting from $1MM to $40MM ARR. As COO at Sinch, he led 750+ people and $300MM ARR. A marathoner and sun-chaser, he thrives on big challenges.

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