How Vocari suggests candidates
Vocari from The Lobby is an AI assistant that helps recruiters find medical sales candidates. It suggests people for a recruiter’s review. Recruiters make every hiring decision.
The recruiter decides
A recruiter sets up each search: the role, where it is, the experience it needs and the companies worth looking at. Vocari suggests people who fit that search, and the recruiter decides who to contact.
Vocari never rejects anyone, screens anyone out or decides who gets hired. When a recruiter asks Vocari to change a search, it shows the change first, and nothing changes until the recruiter applies it.
What Vocari looks at
Only what the role needs, taken from the job and from the company’s own hiring history:
- specialty and the kind of selling
- location and how far the recruiter will look
- job titles and seniority
- years of sales experience
- the companies and divisions someone has worked at
- how a role is offered (W2, 1099 or either) and what a member said they are open to
- for Lobby members, the pay target they gave us
The recruiter marks each of these as a must-have or a nice-to-have. Must-haves are hard filters; nice-to-haves change the order, unless the recruiter picks the strictest search style, which asks for both. Someone whose record matches nothing in the search isn’t suggested. An experience maximum leaves people out only if the recruiter chooses that, and Vocari points out that a maximum can screen out experienced reps. It offers to put people at the role’s level first instead.
Athletics and military backgrounds count only when the recruiter turns them on, and then only as a badge on someone’s profile. They never move anyone up the list.
What Vocari never uses
- age or birth year, or graduation years, which can stand in for age
- sex, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, health, pregnancy, family status or sexual orientation
- names and photos: a recruiter sees a member’s name, and their photo only if the member chooses to share it; neither is ever used to find or order anyone
- anyone’s own pay history
- predictions about whether someone will change jobs
If a recruiter asks Vocari to filter on any of these, it says it can’t and asks what the role needs instead. Time in a current role is shown as a plain fact from the record, never as a prediction.
What a recruiter sees
People are grouped as Top pick, Best match or More matches. These are labels for how closely someone fits the search, not scores, and no number about a person is shown. Data confidence says how much of the match we could read from the person’s own record rather than infer. It describes our data, not the person.
Each profile says why it fits the search, and notes anything worth asking about on the call, such as a criterion we couldn’t read from the record. Professional profiles also show the date of their data.
A recruiter can hide names and photos while reviewing. Contact details are shared only when the recruiter uses a credit on that person.
Where the profiles come from
Lobby members, if they have “Let recruiters find me” switched on. Their current company never sees them. Members can turn the switch off at any time in Settings, and the privacy page explains exactly what an employer can see.
For some companies, Vocari also suggests professional profiles: the public work history and contact details of people in medical sales, which we license from a people-data provider. Members never appear this way. These profiles are marked as not yet verified, with the date of the data.
Recruiting firms
When a recruiting firm searches for a client, the client’s name stays private. It is not shown on the firm’s job postings, and Vocari’s chat replaces it before reading the recruiter’s message.
What we keep
For each search we keep what the recruiter asked for, who was suggested, and how many people each filter left out. Those counts never name anyone.
Seeing, correcting or removing your profile
Members can change or delete everything in their profile from their dashboard, and can turn off “Let recruiters find me” at any time.
If you are not a member, you can see, correct or remove your profile: we email you a code, show you what we hold, and a correction goes to a person on our team. Once you remove it, you are not shown to any employer here and your contact details are not given out. You can also email [email protected].
Questions
If something here doesn’t match what you see, that is a bug in one of them and we want to know: [email protected].