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Greenhouse Recruiting’s integration with Oyster allows Oyster customers to import candidate details into the Oyster platform to kickstart the hiring process.

Create a Harvest API key for the Oyster integration

To configure the Greenhouse Recruiting / Oyster integration, you’ll need to create a Harvest API key.

Follow the steps in this article to create the key, and verify that the permissions below are selected when configuring the Oyster integration.

Credentials

In the Create New Credential box, make the following selections:

  • API Type: Harvest
  • Partner: Oyster (optional)
  • Description: Oyster Harvest API Key

Permissions

Please note that the permissions shown below are the minimum requirement needed to correctly sync your account. Your specific use case may require more or fewer permissions. Please reach out to Oyster if you are unsure which permissions you need for your Greenhouse Recruiting integration.

Applications

  • Get: Retrieve Application
  • Get: List Application

Candidates

  • Get: Retrieve Candidate
  • Get: List Candidates

Tags

  • Get: List tags applied to candidate
  • Get: List Candidate Tags

Users

  • Get: Retrieve User
  • Get: List Users

EEOC

  • Get: Retrieve EEOC Data for Application
  • Get: List EEOC

Scorecards

  • Get: Retrieve Application’s Scorecard
  • Get: List Scorecards for Applicants

Offers

  • Get: List Application’s Offers
  • Get: Retrieve Application’s Current Offer
  • Get: Retrieve Offer
  • Get: List Offers

Scheduled Interviews

  • Get: List Interviews for Application
  • Get: Retrieve Interview
  • Get: List Interviews

Activity Feed

  • Get: Retrieve Activity Feed

Departments

  • Get: Retrieve Department
  • Get: List Departments

Email Templates

  • Get: Retrieve Email Template
  • Get: List Email Templates

Jobs

  • Get: Retrieve Job
  • Get: List Jobs
  • Get: Get hiring team

Job Posts

  • Get: List Job Posts
  • Get: Retrieve Job Post for Job
  • Get: List Job Posts for Job

Job Stages

  • Get: Retrieve Job Stage
  • Get: List Job Stages

Job Openings

  • Get: List Openings For a Job

Offices

  • Get: Retrieve Office
  • Get: List Offices

Rejection Reasons

  • Get: List Rejection Reasons

Sources

  • Get: List Sources

User Roles

  • Get: List User Roles

Close Reasons

  • Get: Get close reasons

Approvals

  • Get: List Approval Flows For Job
  • Get: Get single approval flow

Set up the Greenhouse Recruiting / Oyster integration

In the Oyster platform, navigate to the Customer Admin Dashboard and click Integrations.

On the Integrations page, click Available integrations. Here you will see Greenhouse.

Click Connect.

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In the pop-up that appears, enter your Greenhouse API key

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Greenhouse should now appear in the My Integrations tab.

Use the Greenhouse Recruiting / Oyster integration

In Oyster, navigate to the Hire a team member page. (People > Hire)

Click ATS Candidates.

Click Import a candidate. In the pop-up that appears, search for the candidate by entering their first and/or last name.

Once the candidate is found, click Import to Oyster app.

The candidate’s details will then be imported from Greenhouse Recruiting to Oyster. 

To hire this candidate through Oyster, click on the 3-dot dropdown on the right and select Proceed with hiring.

Additional resources

For additional questions on the Oyster integration with Greenhouse Recruiting, check out Oyster's Help Center article. For questions about any integration with Oyster, visit their Integrations page.