Hiring Stages allow your agency to manage different parts of your recruiting process directly inside Augusta.

Inside your Interviews settings, you can turn ON or OFF three hiring stages based on your agency’s workflow:

• Screening
• Interview
• Orientation

Each stage supports a different part of your recruiting process. The goal is to help your team keep applicant scheduling, reminders, reschedules, cancellations, and meeting outcomes centralized inside Augusta.

In This Article

• Where to Find Hiring Stages
• Augusta’s Recommended Setup
• Screening Stage
• Interview Stage
• Orientation Stage
• How to Configure Hiring Stages

Where to Configure Hiring Stages

1. Go to your Augusta Dashboard
2. Click the Interviews tab
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3. Select the Settings subtab
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4. Scroll to the Hiring Stages section
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From here, you can turn each hiring stage ON or OFF depending on your recruiting needs.

Augusta’s Recommended Setup

For most agencies, we recommend:

• Interview Stage: ON 

• Orientation Stage: ON 

• Screening Stage: OFF, unless operationally necessary

Why?

The faster qualified applicants can book their official interview, the better your hiring outcomes will typically be.

Adding additional steps to your hiring process can increase applicant drop-off if not managed carefully.

That said, Screening stages can be extremely valuable for agencies that truly need additional vetting before official interviews.

Screening Stage

The Screening stage adds an initial screening meeting before an applicant books their official interview.

This is commonly used for:

• RN, LPN/LVN, CNA, CHHA, or other credential-heavy hiring
• Recruit live-in caregivers
• Serve large geographic areas
• Need to verify applicant information before official interviews

Screenings are typically:

• Phone calls
• Video calls
• Quick introductory meetings

Important Considerations

Screening adds another step to your recruiting process.

This means:

• More recruiter coordination
• More scheduling
• Higher applicant drop-off risk

Because of this, we only recommend Screening when it is operationally necessary for your agency.

Interview Stage

The Interview stage is Augusta’s primary hiring workflow and what we recommend for most agencies.

With this stage enabled, qualified applicants can automatically book their official interview immediately after submitting their Augusta application.

Interview stages can support:

• In-person interviews
• Video interviews
• Phone interviews

Why We Recommend Automated Interview Booking

Speed matters. Applicants booked for their official interview shortly after applying are significantly more likely to:

• Show up
• Stay engaged
• Get hired

For most agencies, we strongly recommend allowing qualified applicants to automatically book interviews and bypass any screening.

Orientation Stage

The Orientation stage allows recruiters to schedule orientations directly through Augusta after deciding to move forward with an applicant.

Unlike the Screening or Interview stages, applicants are NOT automatically invited to orientations. Recruiters manually book orientations on behalf of applicants after completing the interview process.

This helps agencies keep:

• Orientation scheduling
• Reminder messaging
• Calendar syncing
• Reschedules/cancellations
• Applicant status tracking

all centralized inside Augusta.

What the orientation includes is fully up to your agency’s workflow and can be explained to applicants in your Orientation meeting description.

How to Configure Hiring Stages

Once you have turned on the stages that fit your workflow, you can configure each stage’s meeting details, availability, assignments, and booking rules.

Learn how to configure and manage Hiring Stages here.

If you have any questions or need support, please email hello@augusta.care.