What is Alva Hiring Agent?
Alva Hiring Agent is an assistant built into Alva. You describe what you need in plain language - create a job position, build an interview template, show me my active jobs - and the agent does the work inside Alva rather than handing you instructions to follow.
It reaches you in three ways:
Chat - you ask, it answers or acts, in a conversation you can come back to. Read Chatting with Alva Hiring Agent for how to ask for things and what the agent hands back.
Workflows - instructions you write once and let run on a schedule, described in Agent Workflows and the Action Hub.
Skills - reusable instructions the agent applies on request, in any conversation. Agent Skills and Personalisation covers writing them, and telling the agent how you want to be worked with.
š”Note: Agent Workflows are not the same thing as the stage automations described in Automations in Hiring System. Stage automations fire when a candidate enters a stage. Agent workflows run instructions you have written, on a schedule you choose.
Where to find it
Ask Alva and Action hub sit in two places: the left navigation, and the top right corner of every page.
Ask Alva opens the agent panel (1).
Action hub opens the approvals and to-dos waiting for you, with a count of the ones you have not seen yet (2).
Your start page opens on the agent, with an Action hub panel beside the conversation.
The tabs at the top switch between Alva Hiring Agent and Your page, and Alva remembers the one you used last. Your first message there opens the conversation full page, so it is the same conversation surface as the panel and not a second one.
š”Note: The agent is available on desktop. The buttons and the agent start page are hidden at tablet and phone widths.
What the agent can do depends on your plan
The agent looks and behaves the same everywhere, but what it knows how to do is not the same for every set-up. On Hiring System it carries the full set: creating and configuring job positions, stage automations, reviewing a roleās pipeline, explaining a candidateās results, hiring analytics, interview scheduling and Alva Marketplace sourcing, on top of everything below.
Without Hiring System the agent is still there, with a smaller set of things it is trained to handle - interview design and content, assessment methodology, and generating summaries you can read or save.
Who can use it
Access is granted per access group, under the Alva Agent permission category:
Use Alva Agent - chat with the agent, and manage own skills and agent personalisation.
Manage own workflows - create, schedule, and run own agent workflows.
Manage skills for the organisation - create and edit agent skills shared with the whole organisation.
Manage workflow templates for the organisation - create and edit workflow templates shared with the whole organisation.
Without Use Alva Agent, the Ask Alva and Action hub buttons do not appear at all. See How to Manage Access Control Groups for how to change a group.
š”Note: If the agent is part of your plan but you cannot see Ask Alva anywhere, the permission is the first thing to check - it is granted per access group and is not switched on for everyone automatically.
Keep in mind
Check the agentās work. Alva Hiring Agent can make mistakes. Review before acting on important decisions, and verify the information.
It works with what you can see. The agent acts as you, so it reaches the same jobs, candidates and settings your own permissions allow - no more.
How Alva uses AI across the platform is described in Alva's use of AI - Hiring System and Use of automatic decision-making.
Any Questions?
Use the chat in the bottom right corner to connect with a member of our support team.
