How do we match candidates already in our ATS to new job openings automatically?
Akshata Pawar
Senior TA Specialist
I’m a senior recruiter with 5 years of experience in talent acquisition, HR, and hiring technology. I write data-driven product reviews, ATS evaluations, and comparisons that help HR leaders choose tools with confidence.
Connect an automated matching tool like Skima AI to your ATS and turn on a setting that triggers a database scan the moment a new job gets created. This removes the manual step of a recruiter remembering to search past applicants for every new opening.
Most ATS platforms store candidate history but do not check it automatically against new roles. A recruiter has to open a search, choose filters, and review results manually, every single time a job opens. Automated matching changes this: a new job triggers the scan without anyone starting it manually, every stored candidate gets evaluated rather than only the ones who applied to that specific job, and results arrive already scored and ranked instead of as a plain list of names.
Skima AI's automatic candidate rediscovery setting stays under Preferences and General. Once enabled, it scans your synced ATS database the instant a new job appears and sends a notification when results are ready. Documented pilots across ATS platforms, including Greenhouse, Lever, and Workday, report a 58% drop in time-to-screen using this exact automation.
If your ATS does not support webhooks for instant triggering, automated matching tools typically fall back to checking for new jobs every 10 to 15 minutes instead, which still executes the scan automatically without a recruiter's involvement, just with a short delay.