Setting up a Google Drive for Resume Uploads

🎯 Step 1: Create a Google Drive Folder for Resumes

1. Log in to Google Drive.

2. Got to your companies Shared Drives and create a new one for candidate.fyi

3. Create a Folder and name it something like Resume Uploads or Candidate Resumes.

4. Open the newly created folder and copy the Folder ID from the URL:

   • Example URL:

   • https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1A2B3C4D5E6F7G8H9I

   • The Folder ID is the part after folders/, which in this case is:

   • 1A2B3C4D5E6F7G8H9I

5. Share the Folder ID with candidate.fyi support team so we can configure it in the platform. Note: candidate.fyi will set the permissions on the file level to be view-only at your organization’s level.

🔄 Step 2: Authenticate Your Google Org Wide Account

Please communicate with candidate.fyi before you do this

In order to connect the resume upload process with your Google Drive, the Google Org Wide account associated with the organization must be authenticated with the following permissions included: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file

This permission only gives permission to files that candidate.fyi has created

1. Log in to the platform as an admin.

2. Navigate to:

   • https://app.candidate.fyi/settings/integrations?tab=Google

3. Click on Connect Google.

   1. If you have previously connected your org wide google account you will need to disconnect and re-connect it.

4. Make sure the Google account used to re-authenticate has access to write to the Google Drive folder.