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title: "SIA for Google Drive"
description: "Screen resumes straight from Google Drive — a whole folder at a time"
canonical_url: https://senseloaf.guides.markdrop.in/sia-connectors/sia-for-google-drive
last_updated: 2026-11-01
site: "Senseloaf"
index: https://senseloaf.guides.markdrop.in/llms.txt
---

# SIA for Google Drive

For most teams, the resumes they already have are sitting in a shared Google Drive folder. Connecting Google Drive lets SIA read those resumes directly, up to 200 files at a time, instead of you uploading files in batches manually.

### Connecting Google Drive

[Video: Connecting Google Drive](https://senseloaf.guides.markdrop.in/docs-assets/import/sia-connectors/sia-for-google-drive/connecting-google-drive.mp4)

1. In Chat, open [**Connectors**](https://sia.senseloaf.ai/settings/connectors) from the sidebar
2. Find the **Google Drive** card and click **Connect Google Drive**
3. A Google sign-in tab opens — sign in with the account that has access to the resumes you want SIA to read
4. Review the permissions shown — this covers Drive access only — and click **Allow**
5. You're redirected back to Chat and the card now reads **Connected**

> **Warning**
>
> NOTE: This one authorisation covers both your personal Drive and any shared or team drives you already have access to. Google Drive is its own separate connection — connecting it does not grant access to Gmail, Calendar, Docs, or Sheets.

### What you can do once connected

Once Google Drive is connected, SIA can find and use whatever's already sitting in your Drive:

* **Scan your Google Drive to find where resumes live** — SIA looks at folder and file names to locate candidate folders. It only reads file names at this stage, never the contents, until you ask it to screen something
* **Screen an entire folder against a job** — point SIA at the folder and it screens everyone in it with grades, instead of uploading files one at a time
* **Add a whole folder to your talent pool** — without matching those resumes to a specific job yet, useful for building a bench of candidates for later
* **Open a shared Drive link** — if someone sends you a link to a resume, SIA can read it directly rather than you having to download and re-upload it
* **Read a single document** — a take-home assignment, a portfolio, a job description, or interview notes, wherever it lives in Drive
* **Turn a job description in Drive into a hiring workflow** — no retyping needed, SIA reads it directly
* **Save a shortlist or candidate brief back to Drive** — so the output lands where the rest of your hiring documents already are

### Try it in chat

```text wrap title="Screen Candidate Data"
Screen everything in my 'Q3 Backend Applicants' folder against the Senior Backend role.
```

```text wrap title="Fetch Data from Drive"
Here's their CV: [drive_link] — screen them for the Frontend job.
```

```text wrap title="Create Workflow"
Read the JD in my Drive and build a hiring workflow from it.
```

[Video: Try it with SIA Chat](https://senseloaf.guides.markdrop.in/docs-assets/import/sia-connectors/sia-for-google-drive/try-it-with-sia-chat.mp4)

### A few things to note

* **Scanning reads file names only.** SIA looks at folder and file names to find resumes — it never reads the contents of your files until you explicitly ask it to screen something.
* **Shared and team drives are included automatically.** You don't need to connect them separately — they're accessible as soon as the main Drive connection is set up.
* **Disconnecting doesn't remove past imports.** Anything already imported into your talent pool before disconnecting stays where it is — only future access to Drive is revoked.

### Disconnecting Google Drive

1. Go to [**Connectors** ](https://sia.senseloaf.ai/settings/connectors)in the sidebar
2. On the Google Drive card, click **Disconnect**

This stops SIA from reading or writing to Google Drive going forward. Your other Google connections, if you have them, are unaffected.