Bulk import and export candidates

You can get candidates into Chosen in bulk — from a spreadsheet or a folder of resumes — and get data back out as a CSV or a batch of resume files. Imports map your columns to candidate fields; exports respect whatever filter you've got applied.

Importing from a spreadsheet

A CSV or Excel file of candidates — from another system, an event, a sourcing list — imports in a few steps.

1. From the candidate list, choose to import and upload your CSV or Excel file.
2. Map columns. Match each column in your file to a candidate field. Chosen guesses the obvious ones; you confirm or correct the rest.
3. Preview. Check the sample of rows as they'll be imported. This is the moment to catch a column mapped to the wrong field.
4. Import. The candidates are created with the values from your file.

A spreadsheet import brings in whatever columns you mapped. It doesn't include resumes — for those, upload the files.

Bulk-uploading resumes

If what you have is resumes rather than a spreadsheet, upload them directly. Bulk upload takes up to 50 files at once. Each one becomes a candidate, and resume parsing fills in their fields in the background — candidates show up immediately and their data populates as each file finishes.

Exporting

Export from the top of the candidate table. Two formats:

• CSV — every parsed field plus status and owner, one row per candidate.
• Resumes (ZIP) — the original resume files, bundled.

Both respect the current filter. Filter the table to "engineering candidates who reached Interview" and the export contains exactly those — the filter bar is how you scope an export, so set it before you export.

Bulk actions on selected candidates

Select candidates with the checkboxes (or shift-click a range) and you can act on all of them at once — move them to a status, assign an owner, export just that selection, or reject them with a template.

Reject with template sends a templated rejection email to everyone selected. It goes from your own connected Gmail inbox, not a generic noreply@ — so replies come back to you, and candidates hear from a person.

Limits

A spreadsheet import creates candidates from the columns you mapped; resumes are a separate upload. Bulk resume upload caps at 50 files per batch — for more, run it again. And reject-with-template needs Gmail connected; without it, that bulk action has no inbox to send from.