Claude for Recruiters: What You Can Ask Your ATS (MCP)
You hang up with a candidate, type to Claude "note that she's strong in React but her English needs work, and book the technical interview Thursday at 3pm", and it's done in Hilancer: the note on her application and the invite in her inbox, with your confirmation before anything goes out. That's what connecting Hilancer to Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, lets you do. It's for independent recruiters and agencies already on Hilancer who want to run their searches by conversation, without losing control of any action.
What the Hilancer connector for Claude (MCP) is
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets an AI assistant connect to the tools you already use. Without it, Claude only knows what you paste into the chat. With the Hilancer connector, Claude can look up your real candidates, positions, interviews and metrics, and make specific changes to your account when you ask.
There's nothing technical to set up: no code, no API keys. You add the connector once, authorize it with your Hilancer account, and from then on you talk to Claude the way you'd talk to a colleague with your ATS open next to them.
Your own Hilancer Pro account (teammates invited into an organization on the Lite plan can't connect it) and a Claude account, even the free one. For now the integration works only with Claude: other assistants, like ChatGPT or Gemini, aren't supported.
How to connect it in 2 minutes
- In Hilancer, go to Settings → Integrations. The Claude card there has the connector URL:
https://mcp.hilancer.io/mcp - In Claude (web or Claude Desktop), go to Customize → Connectors and choose "Add custom connector".
- Paste the URL and click "Add".
- Click "Connect", sign in with your Hilancer account and authorize access on the consent screen.
- In any chat, tap the "+" in the message box, open Connectors and turn Hilancer on.
That's it. The next time you ask something about your pipelines, Claude will check your real account.
An organization Owner (or Primary Owner) has to add the connector first, from Organization settings → Connectors. After that, each member connects it with their own Hilancer account from their chat.
Since the connector is tied to your Claude account, once it's added it also works from the mobile apps.
What you can ask, depending on the time of day
After a call
Just talked to Ana García. Note that she's great at React but her English needs work, and book her technical interview Thursday at 3pm.
What Claude does: it finds Ana in your base, adds the note to her application (the candidate never sees it) and, before scheduling, confirms date, time, time zone, duration and who will get the invite, because scheduling sends the candidate a real email. You reply "go ahead" and the interview is booked in Hilancer, with the invite in Ana's inbox; if you have Google Calendar connected, the event includes a Meet link. On a Teams account, Ana also gets the WhatsApp notification.
When a new candidate comes in
Here's a CV for a Senior Accountant search, get them started.
What Claude does: it reads the file you dragged into the chat, creates the profile with the CV's data (without duplicating: if someone with that email or LinkedIn already exists, it updates that profile instead of creating a new one) and assigns them to the position at whatever initial stage you tell it. The one step left is uploading the CV file itself into Hilancer, because Claude can't transfer files through the connector.
Starting a new search
I need to open a Product Designer search, remote, senior, for an e-commerce client. Check if anyone in my base fits.
What Claude does: it creates the position (always paused, so nothing goes live until you review it), and searches your base with pipeline recommendations or with natural-language AI search if you want something more specific ("people with B2B marketplace experience"). AI search uses credits from your account; on the Pro plan there's no cap.
Planning the week
What interviews do I have this week? And who's been stuck for more than ten days in any active search?
What Claude does: it lists your scheduled interviews and cross-checks your pipelines to flag stalled candidates, without you opening the board. It's a read-only query: nothing moves stages, it just gives you the picture so you can decide.
Reporting to a client or your boss
Put together a summary of the Backend Developer search: how many candidates came in, what stage they're at, and time to fill so far.
What Claude does: it builds the report from real pipeline and analytics data (funnel, time to fill, stage conversion, sources) so you can copy and paste it into an email or a message, instead of exporting a CSV and building a table by hand.
Everything it can do, at a glance
| Look up (read-only) | Load or change |
|---|---|
| Search and filter candidates in your base (with or without an active application) | Create or update a candidate profile (no duplicates: matches by LinkedIn or email) |
| See a candidate's detail and their applications | Assign a candidate to a position, choosing the initial stage |
| List positions and see a position's detail | Create a new position (always paused) or update an existing one |
| See a position's pipeline grouped by stage, using the stage names you use | Activate a paused position |
| List scheduled interviews | Schedule an interview (confirming date, time, time zone, duration and recipients before sending) |
| See the notes on an application | Add a note to an application (the candidate never sees it) |
| See dashboard metrics | Reschedule an interview (only sends a notice if the date or time actually changes) |
| See full analytics: funnel, time to fill, conversion, sources, rejection reasons, candidate NPS | Log an interview the client did outside Hilancer (sends nothing) |
| Drill down into candidates by metric | |
| See a position's pipeline report | |
| See a report on your candidate base's composition | |
| Search your base with natural-language AI | |
| See candidate recommendations from your base for a position |
What Claude won't do (and why)
Claude never deletes a candidate or a position, never moves someone between stages, never rejects, never shares a profile outside your account, and never cancels an interview. It also never touches your settings or your billing. You do all of that from Hilancer, where you see the full context before deciding.
The only thing that ever reaches a candidate through this connector is the invite when you schedule or reschedule an interview, and Claude always confirms the details with you before sending it.
Limits worth knowing
- Files: Claude can't upload or download files through the connector. You can drag a CV (PDF or DOCX) into the chat and Claude will read it to create the candidate with that data, but the CV file itself has to be uploaded in Hilancer, from the candidate's profile or through the regular import.
- AI credits: natural-language search across your base uses AI credits from your account. On the Pro plan there's no monthly cap.
- Claude only: for now the integration works only with Claude, not with ChatGPT or other assistants.
- Review before confirming: Claude can be wrong, like any AI. Before confirming anything that reaches a candidate (an interview, especially), check the details it shows you.
Privacy and control
Whatever Claude reads from your Hilancer account travels to Anthropic under your own Claude account, the same as anything else you share in a chat. You can read the details in the AI integrations section of our privacy policy.
On Hilancer's side, every call the connector makes gets logged: which tool was used, the result and the date, never the content of the conversation. From Settings → Integrations you'll see the date you authorized access and a "Revoke access" button whenever you want to cut it.
FAQ
Can Claude message my candidates on its own?
No. The only thing a candidate receives is the invite when you schedule or reschedule an interview, and Claude confirms the date, time and recipient with you before sending it.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. You connect it by pasting a URL and authorizing with your Hilancer account. After that, you just type in the chat the way you'd write to a colleague.
Can candidates see the notes Claude adds?
No. Notes stay on the application, just like the ones you write by hand in Hilancer, and candidates never see them.
Can I use it if I'm on a team with a Lite plan?
Not directly: you need your own Pro account to connect it. If you're invited into an organization on the Lite plan, you'll see an upgrade prompt when you try to connect it.
Does it work with ChatGPT or Gemini?
Not for now. The integration works only with Claude.
Can I ask it to delete a candidate or reject them?
No, and that's deliberate: Claude never deletes, moves between stages, rejects or shares candidates. Those actions always happen from Hilancer.
What happens if Claude schedules an interview wrong?
Before sending the invite, Claude shows you date, time, time zone, duration and recipients so you can confirm. If something's off, fix it there before you say yes: once confirmed, the real email goes out to the candidate.
How do I disconnect access?
From Settings → Integrations in Hilancer, with the "Revoke access" button. You can also remove it from the Connectors section of your Claude account.
Try it on your next search
If you've already automated candidate notices with WhatsApp and Google Calendar, this is the next step: a recruitment CRM that understands you when you talk to it. The connector is included in the Pro plan (US$15 per month, currently 30% off at US$9.99, with a 14-day trial). Try Hilancer Pro and connect it to Claude on your next call with a candidate.
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