As an organization you use different systems to manage your day to day operations. You might use Slack for communicating with colleagues and job seekers, Salesforce to manage your partnerships and Google sheets for everything in between. Sometimes you want to share information across your systems. Maybe you want to get a Slack message when a job seeker receives an offer, or update your job seeker profile in Salesforce when they've received an interview.
Huntr's action based architecture, along with our Webhooks feature make these and many more integrations possible. Every interaction your job seekers complete within the Huntr platform is logged as an action, this includes everything from saving a job opportunity, to moving the job to a new stage, to logging a new 'Interview' Activity. Each time a new action is logged, you can tell Huntr to send this message to another system by creating a webhook. You can see a full list of all Huntr actions here. This works great if you have an internal (software) dev team that can use these webhooks to create integrations; but the reality is many organizations don't have this luxury. This is where Zapier steps in.
Zapier makes it easy for anyone to connect two applications without knowledge of software development. In this blog I will walk you through creating an integration between Huntr and Slack using Zapier.
The goal of this integration is to send a message to a Slack channel whenever a job seeker within my organization logs a job offer. Hopefully this integration will give you the basic knowledge you need to setup more custom integrations on your own. Let's get started!
You can sign up for zapier through this link. Once you have signed up, you should see a page similar to the one below; click on the 'Make a zap' button. A zap represents an integration between two applications.
In Zapier, a trigger is the action that will initiate the 'Zap'. In our case, our trigger is a Huntr Webhook being received.
Webhooks by Zapier, and click on the Webhooks by Zapier option.
