Greenhouse API: what you can do and how to use it with AI agents
Greenhouse is an applicant tracking system (ATS) with APIs for jobs, candidates, applications, interviews and offers, including a public jobs API for career pages. Technology companies and talent acquisition teams use it. Access is with keys generated by the account administrator.
What the Greenhouse API offers
Jobs
Query open jobs, including to show them on a career page.
Candidates and applications
Create candidates, with the stages and history of each application.
Interviews and scorecards
Scheduling and interviewer scorecards.
Offers
Information on offers made to candidates.
Webhooks
Events such as application created, stage changed or hire.
How to access the Greenhouse API
- With your company’s credentialsUses API keys created by the Greenhouse administrator, with permissions chosen per resource. The jobs API for career pages is publicly readable.
- Candidate data is personal (for example, under GDPR).
- Selection decisions should not be automated by the agent.
- The API has rate limits.
Official documentation: developers.greenhouse.io
What an iTeam agent does with the Greenhouse API
Applications from other channels into the ATS
Résumés that arrive by email or referral become candidates on the right job, with the source recorded.
Scorecard reminder
The agent follows up with interviewers who have not yet submitted their feedback.
Candidate summary for the hiring manager
Before the final interview, the agent pulls together the evaluations and builds a summary for the manager.
Weekly job status
The agent reports candidates by stage and stalled jobs to the recruiting team.
From the credential to the agent at work, with approval
Create the key with minimum permissions
The Greenhouse administrator creates the key with only the resources the agent will use.
Store it in the iTeam vault
Add the key and restrict access to recruiting agents.
Decisions stay with people
Keep advancing, rejecting and making offers as human decisions. The agent organizes and reminds.
Ready-made AI teams that use Greenhouse
Questions about the Greenhouse API
Is the Greenhouse API free?
The API is part of the platform with no separate charge. Access depends on your company's contract with Greenhouse.
Do I need to write code to use the Greenhouse API with iTeam?
Not necessarily. Greenhouse is among the apps iTeam connects, and the deployment team configures permissions and rules.
Does the agent screen résumés?
It can organize and summarize résumés using criteria your team defines, but the recruiter decides.
