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Spott gives you several ways to add candidates. The right one depends on what you have in hand: a CV, a list to bulk‑import, or a LinkedIn profile you’re sourcing from. Open the Candidates page (shortcut: G then A) and click Add Candidate in the top‑right. You’ll see the upload dialog:
The Add Candidate dialog with CV upload, email option, and manual entry

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Choose a method

Upload a CV

Drag & drop one or many CVs — Spott parses them and pre‑fills the form for you to review.

Forward by email

Send CVs to cv@spott.io from your work email and Spott creates the candidates automatically.

Add manually

Enter the details by hand — best when you only have a name or partial info.

From LinkedIn

Import a profile directly with the Spott Chrome extension.
The first three are the day‑to‑day workflows. CSV import, sourcing integrations (e.g. Juicebox, Pin), and the API cover bulk and programmatic cases.

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Upload a CV (drag‑and‑drop)

The fastest way when you have CVs in hand. Spott parses each CV and drops you into the candidate form with the fields already filled in.
1

Open the upload dialog

On the Candidates page, click Add Candidate.
2

Add your CVs

Drag files onto the drop zone, or click Upload CV to browse. You can add up to 1,000 CVs at once.
3

Review the parsed details

Spott extracts what it can — name, email, phone, LinkedIn URL, work experience, education, and certifications — and pre‑fills the form across the Basic attributes, Experience, Education, and Certificates tabs. Correct anything that needs it.
A parsed CV pre-filled in the candidate form
4

Save

Click Add All Candidates. They now appear in your database.
CV upload is a supervised flow: you always review the parsed values before saving. If you’d rather skip the review step, forward the CV by email instead (below).

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Forward CVs by email

Forward CVs as email attachments to cv@spott.io and Spott parses them and creates the candidate records — no need to log in.
Forward from your work email — the address you use to sign in to Spott. That address is how Spott knows which workspace the candidate belongs to. Forwarding from a personal address won’t work.
This is an unsupervised flow — there’s no review step, so an occasional field may be missed. You’ll always get an email back if something goes wrong:
The email arrived without a CV attachment. Reply‑forward with the file attached.
The file was corrupted or image‑only without recognizable text. Re‑export a clean PDF and resend.
The CV’s email, phone, or LinkedIn URL points to two different existing records, so Spott can’t safely deduplicate. It surfaces the conflict instead of guessing — resolve it in the app. See deduplication.

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Add a candidate manually

Best when you have only a name, an email, or partial information — no CV.
1

Open the form

Click Add Candidate, then Add Candidate Manually.
2

Fill in the details

Enter name, email, phone, and location, then add experience, education, and any custom fields your workspace has configured.
3

Save

The candidate is created and added to your database.

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Other ways to add candidates

LinkedIn (Chrome extension)

Import candidates and companies straight from a LinkedIn profile or search.

CSV import

Bulk‑upload a list of candidates from a spreadsheet.

Sourcing integrations

Push candidates from connected tools like Juicebox or Pin directly into Spott.

API

Insert candidates programmatically via the Spott API.

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Good to know

  • Duplicates are handled for you. Spott deduplicates on email, phone, and LinkedIn URL, so re‑adding someone enriches the existing profile rather than creating a copy. See managing candidates.
  • Keep profiles complete. Fuller profiles improve search accuracy and matching results.