🚨 Mission 01: Get started with the Hiring Agent¶

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🕵️‍♂️ CODENAME: `OPERATION TALENT SCOUT`¶

⏱️ Operation Time Window: ~45 minutes

🎯 Mission Brief¶

Welcome, Agent. Your first assignment is Operation Talent Scout - establishing the foundational infrastructure for an AI-powered recruitment system that will transform how organizations identify and hire top talent.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to deploy and configure a comprehensive hiring management system using Microsoft Copilot Studio. You'll import a pre-built solution containing all the necessary data structures, then create your first AI agent - the Hiring Agent - which will serve as the central orchestrator for all future recruitment operations.

This initial deployment establishes the command center that you'll enhance throughout the Agent Academy Operative program. Consider this your base of operations - the foundation upon which you'll build an entire network of specialized agents in subsequent missions.

🔎 Objectives¶

By completing this mission, you will:

Scenario Understanding: Gain comprehensive knowledge of hiring automation challenges and solutions
Solution Deployment: Successfully import and configure the fundamentals of a hiring management system
Agent Creation: Build a hiring agent that is the start of the scenario you're going to build as an Agent Academy Operative

🔍 Prerequisites¶

Before embarking on this mission, ensure you have:

Copilot Studio license
Access to a Microsoft Power Platform environment
Administrative permissions to create solutions and agents

🏢 Understanding the Hiring Automation Scenario¶

This scenario demonstrates how a company can use Microsoft Copilot Studio to improve and automate its hiring process. It introduces a system of agents that work together to handle tasks like reviewing resumes, recommending job roles, preparing interview materials, and evaluating candidates.

Business Value¶

The solution helps HR teams save time and make better decisions by:

Automatically processing resumes received via email.
Suggesting suitable job roles based on candidate profiles.
Creating job applications and interview guides tailored to each candidate.
Ensuring fair and compliant hiring practices through built-in safety and moderation features.
Collecting feedback to improve the solution.

How It Works¶

A central Hiring Agent coordinates the process and stores data in Microsoft Dataverse.
An Application Intake Agent reads resumes and creates job applications.
An Interview Prep Agent generates interview questions and documents based on the candidate's background.
The system can be published to a demo website, allowing stakeholders to interact with it.

This scenario is ideal for organizations looking to modernize their recruitment workflows using AI-powered automation, while maintaining transparency, fairness, and efficiency.

🧪 Lab: Setup the Hiring Agent¶

In this hands-on lab, you'll establish the foundation for your hiring automation system. You'll begin by importing a pre-configured solution that contains all the necessary Dataverse tables and data structure for managing candidates, job positions, and hiring workflows. Next, you'll populate these tables with sample data that will support your learning throughout this module and provide realistic scenarios for testing. Finally, you'll create the Hiring Agent in Copilot Studio, setting up the basic conversational interface that will serve as the cornerstone for all the other features you'll add in future missions.

🧪 Lab 1.1: Import solution¶

Go to Copilot Studio
Select the ... in the left navigation and select Solutions
Select the Import Solution button on the top
Download the prepared solution
Select Browse and select the downloaded solution from the previous step
Select Next
Select Import

Success

On success, you will see a green notification bar with the following message when it's done:
"Solution "Operative" imported successfully."

When the solution is imported, take a look at what you imported by selecting the display name of the solution (Operative).

Imported tables

The following components are imported:

Display Name	Type	Description
Candidate	Table	Candidate information
Evaluation Criteria	Table	Evaluation criteria for the role
Hiring Hub	Model-Driven App	Application for managing the hiring process
Hiring Hub	Site Map	Navigation structure for the Hiring Hub app
Job Application	Table	Job applications
Job Role	Table	Job roles
Resume	Table	Resumes of the candidates

As the last task for this lab, Select the Publish all customizations button at the top of the page.

🧪 Lab 1.2: Import sample data¶

In this lab, you will add sample data to some of the tables that you imported in lab 1.1.

Download the files to import¶

Download the CSV-file with the evaluation criteria
Download the CSV-file with the job roles

Import the Job Role sample data¶

Go back to the solution you just imported in the last lab
Select the Hiring Hub Model-Driven App by selecting the checkmark in front of the row
Select the Play button at the top

Warning

You might be prompted to login again. Make sure to do that. After doing that, you should see the Hiring Hub app.
Select Job Roles in the left navigation
Select the More icon (three dots below each other) in the command bar
Select the right arrow next to Import from Excel
Select Import from CSV
Select the Choose File button, select the job-roles.csv file you just downloaded and then select Open
Select Next
Leave the next step as is and select Review Mapping
Make sure the mapping is correct and select Finish Import

Info

This will start an import and you will be able to track progress or finish the process immediately by selecting Done
Select Done

This can take a little while, but you can hit the Refresh button to see if the import has succeeded.

Job roles import successful

Import the Evaluation Criteria sample data¶

Select Evaluation Criteria in the left navigation
Select the More icon (three dots below each other) in the command bar
Select the right arrow next to Import from Excel
Select Import from CSV
Select the Choose File button, select the evaluation-criteria.csv file you just downloaded and then select Open
Select Next
Leave the next step as is and select Review Mapping
Now we have to do a bit more work for the mapping. Select the magnifying glass(🔎 icon) next to the Job Role field
Make sure Job Title is selected here, and if not - add it
Select OK
Make sure the rest of the mapping is correct too and select Finish Import

Info

This will start an import again and you will be able to track progress or finish the process immediately by selecting Done
Select Done

This can take a little while, but you can hit the Refresh button to see if the import has succeeded.

Evaluation Criteria import successful

🧪 Lab 1.3: Create the hiring agent¶

Now you are done with the setup of the prerequisites, it's time for the actual work! Let's add our Hiring Agent first!

Go to Copilot Studio and make sure you are in the same environment as where you imported the solution and the data
Select Agents in the left navigation
Select New Agent
Select Configure
For Name, enter:
```
Hiring Agent
```

For Description, enter:

Central orchestrator for all hiring activities

Select the ... next to the Create button on the top right corner
Select Update advanced settings
As Solution, select Operative
Select Update
Select Create in the top right corner

This will create the Hiring Agent for you, which you will use throughout this Operative course.

🎉 Mission Complete¶

Mission 01 is completed! You now have mastered the following skills:

✅ Scenario Understanding: Comprehensive knowledge of hiring automation challenges and solutions
✅ Solution Deployment: Successfully imported and configured the fundamentals of a hiring management system
✅ Agent Creation: Built an hiring agent that is the start of the scenario you're going to build as an Agent Academy Operative

Next up is Mission 02: Make your agent multi-agent ready with connected agents.

📚 Tactical Resources¶

📖 Microsoft Copilot Studio - Create an agent 📖 Microsoft Dataverse Documentation