Creating a flow

With all of the prerequisites out of the way, it’s time to start working with some automation! This flow will be broken into several sections to help you conceptualize the actions.

Configuring the trigger and variables

In the Designing a solution section, we identified a shared mailbox as the way resume content will be ingested. In the real world, that might only be one way you choose to receive resumes. You might also have a website where candidates can upload their resumes or even a third-party job posting service that you may configure to store or forward resumes. In any case, the processes will be very similar. The triggers will depend on what access, polling, or notification methods you have available to you.

For simplicity’s sake, this example will use a shared mailbox.

This flow will make use of variables—essentially, placeholders that can be used to hold temporary content or values in memory throughout the flow. There will be...