Career fairs, campus visits, meetups, and conferences give recruiters a steady stream of people who are not applicants yet. The candidates you remember, and who remember you, are the ones you can call when a role opens. An applicant tracking system is built for the people who have applied; Genify is for the relationships before that.
Short answer
Recruiters meet promising people long before there is an open role or an application. Genify keeps those candidates, hiring managers, and referral sources organized with notes from every conversation, so you can reach the right person with the right context when a role opens.
Scan a business card, or record a short voice note on who stood out and why, between conversations at the booth.
Use connection types for candidates, hiring managers, and referral sources, and tags for skills, seniority, and locations.
Save what each person is looking for, their timing, and what they are strong at, in your own words.
Use dated tasks and drafts that reference your actual conversation, so strong candidates hear from you within a day.
In practice
You meet sixty students in four hours. Between conversations you record a few words on the ones who stood out, such as "data internship, built a churn model, graduates in May". By the evening, your top ten have personal follow-ups that reference those details.
A backend role opens. You filter by your "backend" and "senior" tags and find four engineers you met at a meetup in the spring, with notes on who wanted remote work and who was open to moving.
Before a kickoff call, you review your notes on the hiring manager: they value mentoring experience and dislike long take-home tests. Your shortlist and your interview plan reflect both.
Messages to adapt
Hi [name], thanks for stopping by our table at [fair] today. Your [project or experience] stood out, especially [specific detail]. Our [role] is a strong fit. Here is the link to apply: [link]. I will look out for your application.
Hi [name], we met at [event] in [month] and you mentioned you were interested in [type of role]. We have just opened a [role] on a team that [detail]. Would you be open to a 15-minute call this week?
What this improves
When a role opens, filter by skill tag and see who you have already met, with notes on what they want.
Candidates who hear back the next day stay interested; the ones who wait a week often accept other interviews.
Notes on each manager's preferences help you send candidates who fit, not just candidates who match keywords.
Checklist
Create connection types for candidates, hiring managers, and referral sources
Tag candidates by skill, seniority, and preferred location
Write one line on what each candidate wants right after you meet
Follow up with strong candidates within 24 hours of an event
Move people into your applicant tracking system when they apply
Frequently asked
No. Genify manages relationships before someone applies, such as candidates you meet at fairs and events. When a person applies, manage the application in your ATS.
Capture each person at the booth with a scan or voice note, tag them by skill and role, and write one line on what they are looking for. Then follow up within a day.
Yes. Record a short voice note between conversations and Lily saves it to the contact with the details pulled out.
Save only what you need to match people with roles, such as skills, interests, and timing, and follow your company's data and privacy policies for candidate information.
Genify can send contacts to other tools through outbound webhooks, for example with Zapier or Make. Check with your team which systems should receive candidate details.
Category fit
The job is not just collecting contacts. It is preserving context, recalling the right details later, and keeping important conversations moving for a specific professional audience.
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