When you source tech candidates for your company, you can search Get on Board’s Talent Database directly from Claude, ChatGPT, or another compatible client through the Get on Board MCP server. You connect the server once with the URL https://www.getonbrd.com/mcp, describe the role you need in plain language, and get back privacy-safe candidate summaries with links to each profile on Get on Board. This works for recruiter accounts with an accepted company; unlocking contact details still happens on Get on Board, with your Talent Database credits.
This article walks through the full sourcing workflow, from the first search to the moment you unlock a candidate.
Step 1: Connect the server
Pick the setup guide for the client you use:
In every case the setup is the same idea: paste https://www.getonbrd.com/mcp into the client, sign in with your recruiter account, pick your company, and approve access in the browser. Access lasts 2 hours per authorization, so expect to re-authorize during long sessions.
Step 2: Describe the role in plain language
The search tool takes one natural-language query — there are no filter menus to fill. Put everything that matters into the description, the same way you would brief a colleague:
Find senior backend engineers in Chile or Colombia with solid Python and
PostgreSQL experience, English B2 or better, available within a month.
Useful details to include: role and seniority, stack or domain experience, country or time zone, English level, salary expectations, and availability. The more specific the brief, the better the first page of results. The same advice that improves web searches applies here — see How to get better results from Talent Database search.
You can also start from one of your open jobs: ask your agent to read the job’s description and questionnaire on Get on Board and use them as the search brief.
Step 3: Review and narrow the results
Each result includes the candidate’s country, seniority, years of experience, English level, top skills, a recruiter-oriented summary, and a link to the profile on Get on Board. Ask your agent to work with those fields:
From these results, keep only candidates with fintech experience,
rank them against my brief, and explain the top 5 picks.
If the first page misses the mark, refine the query instead of paging endlessly — add the missing requirement or drop the one that is too strict.
Step 4: Get more context on a candidate
When a result looks promising, your agent can request that candidate’s extended detail: professional and academic background, skills, and visible quiz traits. Use this to compare finalists or check a specific concern before you open the profile:
Pull the full detail for the top 3 candidates and compare their
backend experience against the job requirements.
The detail view is read-only. It never includes contact data, CV files, or social links, and requesting it does not unlock the candidate or spend credits.
Step 5: Unlock and continue on Get on Board
The search gives every candidate a profile link on Get on Board. Open it in the web app to:
- Review the complete profile, beyond what the agent can see.
- Unlock contact details using your Talent Database credits, with the usual quota display and confirmation.
- Invite the candidate to one of your jobs and manage the process in your ATS.
Unlocking and inviting are deliberate, human decisions — they only happen on Get on Board, never from Claude or ChatGPT. See Can I directly access the contact data in the Talent Database? for how unlocks work.
What the connection can and cannot do
Through the MCP server, your client can search candidates, read privacy-safe candidate detail, and list your company’s open jobs with their full descriptions. It cannot unlock candidates, send invitations, submit applications, or read contact data — email, phone, CV files, and social links stay on Get on Board, where each professional controls their own visibility and you decide when an unlock is worth a credit.
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