--- name: "hiring_screen_queue" area: "hiring" title: "Applications to screen" price: "free" method: "POST" url: "https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/hiring_screen_queue" mcp_server: "https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/hiring" auth: "Authorization: Bearer " docs_url: "https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_screen_queue" --- # Applications to screen (`hiring_screen_queue`) The next applications nobody has screened, with the job's criteria and the résumé as text, blind by default. The next applications nobody has screened yet, oldest first, with what a review needs: the job, its criteria and filter, the answers and flags, the cover letter and the résumé as text. Blind by default: name, email, phone and links are left out and replaced in the text, so the review rests on what they did. Review each one yourself and save it with hiring_record_screening; Conecto never rejects anyone. To screen each application as it arrives, send hiring.application_received to your webhook with notify_subscribe, or read account_events. Price: Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month for the whole account, then $0.50 per 10,000 reads. A call that fails costs nothing. ## Use it when New applications wait for a first review; save each with hiring_record_screening. ## Say this to your agent > Go through the new bike mechanic applications against our criteria. ## Inputs | Name | Type | Required | Description | Allowed values | Default | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | `job` | string | no | The job (its slug from hiring_list_jobs). 1 to 80 characters. | | | | `limit` | integer | no | 1 to 10. | | `5` | | `blind` | boolean | no | | | `true` | ## Example Written for Halverson Cycle & Repair, a bike shop with a repair workshop in Portland, Oregon. MCP: call `hiring_screen_queue` on the MCP server `https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/hiring` with these arguments: ```json { "job": "bike-mechanic", "limit": 5 } ``` REST: ```bash curl https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/hiring_screen_queue \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $CONECTO_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"job": "bike-mechanic", "limit": 5}' ``` ## Response ```json { "call_id": "5f0c8a2e-3b7d-4c1e-9a64-2d8e1f7b0c93", "tool": "hiring_screen_queue", "status": "succeeded", "replayed": false, "cost_usd": "$0.00", "balance_usd": "$19.75", "result": { "jobs": [ { "job": "bike-mechanic", "title": "Bike mechanic", "description": "We build, tune and repair city, gravel and cargo bikes in our Portland workshop. You work the stand with two other mechanics: tune-ups, brake bleeds, wheel builds and e-bike checks.\n\n**You have** two years or more in a bike shop, and your own basic tools.\n\n**We offer** paid time off, health insurance and a staff discount on bikes and parts.", "criteria": [ { "id": "c1", "text": "Two years as a mechanic in a bike shop", "required": true, "weight": 3 }, { "id": "c2", "text": "Has built wheels", "required": false, "weight": 3 } ], "filter": null } ], "applications": [ { "applicant_id": 4101, "job": "bike-mechanic", "applied_at": "2026-10-14T08:00:00+00:00", "stage": "Applied", "answers": [ { "question": "How many years have you worked as a bike mechanic?", "answer": 6 }, { "question": "Can you lift 50 lb?", "answer": true } ], "flags": [], "cover_letter": "I have worked in bike shops for six years, the last two also building wheels for a cyclocross team.", "resume": { "text": "[name] [name]\n\nBike mechanic, 6 years\n\nTune-ups, brake bleeds, wheel builds", "truncated": false, "note": null } }, { "applicant_id": 4102, "job": "bike-mechanic", "applied_at": "2026-10-14T08:00:00+00:00", "stage": "Applied", "answers": [ { "question": "How many years have you worked as a bike mechanic?", "answer": 2 }, { "question": "Can you lift 50 lb?", "answer": true } ], "flags": [], "cover_letter": "I fix my friends' bikes and want to learn in a real shop.", "resume": { "text": "[name] [name]\n\nBike mechanic, 2 years\n\nTune-ups, brake bleeds, wheel builds", "truncated": false, "note": null } } ], "remaining": 0 } } ``` `result`: jobs: the jobs with their criteria; applications: each with its applicant_id, answers, flags, cover letter and résumé text (name and contacts left out when blind); and how many more wait. ## Errors | Code | Status | When | Fix | |---|---|---|---| | `not_found` | 404 | No job of the business has that slug. | Call hiring_list_jobs and use one of its slugs. | | `ai_review_off` | 409 | Candidates were not told that AI may help review applications. | Run hiring_setup_careers with ai_review: true first. | The refusals every tool can give (401 key, 402 balance, 429 limits) are on the errors page: https://conecto.chat/docs/errors.md ## Related - [hiring_setup_careers](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_setup_careers.md): Sets up the careers page at cncto.co/j/: its name, intro, website, reply-to address and who hears about applications. $0.001 a call. - [hiring_design_careers](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_design_careers.md): Gives the careers and job pages the business's own look: colours, a font, corners, a cover, a headline and its own CSS. $0.001 a call. - [hiring_create_job](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_create_job.md): Posts a job with its own page and application form on the careers page. $0.01 a call. - [hiring_update_job](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_update_job.md): Changes a job's details, its criteria and filter, or opens or closes it. $0.01 a call. - [hiring_list_jobs](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_list_jobs.md): The business's jobs with their status, page and applicants per stage. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [hiring_list_applicants](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_list_applicants.md): Applicants, newest or best match first: for one job or all, by stage, screening, risk, name or email, or the ones kept as spam. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [hiring_get_applicant](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_get_applicant.md): One application in full: answers, résumé link, screening and match score, the checks on who sent it, notes and history. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [hiring_record_screening](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_record_screening.md): Saves a review of one application: strong, partial or weak, a summary, and each criterion with its evidence. $0.01 a call. - [hiring_mark_spam](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_mark_spam.md): Moves one application to spam or back, and can block the network and email domain it came from. $0.001 a call. - [hiring_get_blocklist](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_get_blocklist.md): The networks and email domains whose applications are kept as spam. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [hiring_update_blocklist](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_update_blocklist.md): Blocks or unblocks networks and email domains; what comes from them is kept as spam, with no fee and no emails. $0.001 a call. - [hiring_move_applicant](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_move_applicant.md): Moves an applicant to another stage of their job, with a note; the candidate is not told. $0.01 a call. - [hiring_hire_applicant](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_hire_applicant.md): Hires an applicant in one call: Hired in hiring, a person in HR with their résumé on file, and their onboarding checklist started. $0.25 a call. - [hiring_note](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_note.md): Adds a note to an applicant, rates them 1 to 5, or both. $0.01 a call. - [hiring_email_applicant](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_email_applicant.md): Emails an applicant in the business's name; replies go to the careers page's reply-to address. $0.02 a call. - [hiring_invite_to_interview](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_invite_to_interview.md): Emails an applicant a link to book an interview on one of the calendar's meeting types, and can move them to a stage. $0.05 a call. - [hiring_save_assessment](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_save_assessment.md): Writes a skills test or changes one: questions scored on their own, written answers to mark, a time limit and shuffling. $0.01 a call. - [hiring_list_assessments](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_list_assessments.md): The business's skills tests: title, questions, time limit, and how many were sent and completed. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [hiring_send_assessment](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_send_assessment.md): Emails an applicant their own link to a skills test. $0.02 a call. - [hiring_assessment_results](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_assessment_results.md): An applicant's tests: status, score, each answer against the expected one, answers to mark, time taken and how often they left the page. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [hiring_mark_assessment](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_mark_assessment.md): Gives points to the written answers of a completed test. $0.01 a call. - [hiring_delete_assessment](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_delete_assessment.md): Deletes a skills test with every candidate's answers to it. Free. - [hiring_delete_applicant](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_delete_applicant.md): Deletes an applicant and their résumé for good. Free. - [hiring_dashboard_link](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_dashboard_link.md): A one-time link to hiring at a glance: each applicant's stage and next step, the tests and interviews waiting, and the open jobs. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month.