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title: "Trigger Agents"
description: "Choose how candidates move through your hiring pipeline"
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# Trigger Agents

Once candidates are in your workflow, the hiring agents need to be triggered to evaluate them. This can happen in two ways — automatically based on rules you've configured, or manually when you want direct control over who moves forward.

### 1. How AI Matching (Resume Matching) works

AI Matching (Resume Matching) runs automatically on every candidate as soon as they enter the workflow. There's nothing to trigger — the moment a candidate is added, SIA immediately begins evaluating their resume against your matching strategy and assigns them a grade.

### 2. Automatic triggering

If you've set up the Hiring Automation Agent, candidates move through the pipeline on their own based on the rules you've defined. Once AI Matching is complete and a candidate meets the conditions you've set, the next agent, AI Prescreening or AI Interview, is triggered automatically without any manual action needed.

For example:

* When Resume Matching grade ≥ B → AI Prescreening triggered automatically
* When Prescreening grade ≥ B → AI Interview triggered automatically

The pipeline keeps moving as long as candidates continue to meet the conditions at each stage.

### 3. Manual triggering

If you haven't set up automation rules, or if you want to take direct control over which candidates progress, you can trigger agents manually.

**a. Triggering in bulk**

[Video: Manual Triggering](https://senseloaf.guides.markdrop.in/docs-assets/import/hiring-pipeline/trigger-agents/manual-triggering.mp4)

1. On the Candidate Listing page, select the candidates you want to progress
2. Choose **Trigger AI Prescreening** or **Trigger AI Interview** from the actions menu
3. The selected agent is triggered immediately for all selected candidates

**b.** **Triggering for an individual candidate**

![Trigger Agent for Individual Candidate](https://senseloaf.guides.markdrop.in/docs-assets/import/hiring-pipeline/trigger-agents/trigger-agent-for-individual-candidate.png "Trigger Agent for Individual Candidate")

The same option is available on a per-candidate basis. Open the action menu on any individual candidate and select the agent you want to trigger.

> **Warning**
>
> Manual triggering gives you full control over candidate progression at any point — even if automation rules are active. You can use both approaches together depending on how hands-on you want to be at each stage.