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🚨 Mission 01: Get started with the Hiring Agent ​

🕵️‍♂️ 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 solution that you'll enhance throughout the Agent Academy Operative course. Consider this your base of operations - the foundation upon which you'll build an entire network of specialized agents in subsequent missions.

🔎 Objectives ​

In this mission, you'll learn:

  1. About the scenario and gain comprehensive knowledge of hiring automation challenges and solutions
  2. How to successfully import and configure the fundamentals of a hiring management system
  3. How to 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

Prerequisites help:

If you need help getting a Copilot Studio license, please reference the Recruit Course Setup lab which walks you through setting up a Power Platform environment with a Copilot Studio trial.

🏢 Understanding the Hiring Automation Scenario ​

This scenario demonstrates how a company can use Microsoft Copilot Studio full 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 1: 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 ​

  1. Go to Copilot Studio

  2. Select the ... in the left navigation and select Solutions

    Solutions tab

  3. Select the Import Solution button on the top

    Import Solution

  4. Download the prepared solution

  5. Select Browse and select the downloaded solution from the previous step

  6. Select Next

    Browse Solution

  7. Select Import

    Import Solution

    NOTE

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

  8. Once you see the "imported successfully" message, take a look at what you imported by selecting the display name of the solution (Operative) in the solutions list.

Open Solution

Review the solution and ensure that the following components are imported:

Imported tables

Display NameTypeDescription
CandidateTableCandidate information
Evaluation CriteriaTableEvaluation criteria for the role
Hiring HubModel-Driven AppApplication for managing the hiring process
Hiring HubSite MapNavigation structure for the Hiring Hub app
Job ApplicationTableJob applications
Job RoleTableJob roles
ResumeTableResumes of the candidates

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

Publish Customizations

🧪 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 ​

  1. Download the CSV-file with the evaluation criteria
  2. Download the CSV-file with the job roles

Import the Job Role sample data ​

  1. Go back to the solution you just imported in the last lab

  2. Select the Hiring Hub Model-Driven App by selecting the checkmark in front of the row

  3. Select the Play button at the top

    Play App

    WARNING

    You might be prompted to login again. Make sure to do that. After doing that, you should see the Hiring Hub app.

  4. Select Job Roles in the left navigation

  5. Select the More icon (three dots below each other) in the command bar

  6. Select the right arrow next to Import from Excel

    Import from Excel

  7. Select Import from CSV

    Import from CSV

  8. Select the Choose File button, select the job-roles.csv file you just downloaded and then select Open

  9. Select Next

  10. Leave the next step as is and select Review Mapping

    Review mapping

  11. Make sure the mapping is correct and select Finish Import

    NOTE

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

  12. 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 ​

  1. Select Evaluation Criteria in the left navigation

  2. Select the More icon (three dots below each other) in the command bar

  3. Select the right arrow next to Import from Excel

    Import from Excel

  4. Select Import from CSV

    Import from CSV

  5. Select the Choose File button, select the evaluation-criteria.csv file you just downloaded and then select Open

  6. Select Next

  7. Leave the next step as is and select Review Mapping

    Review mapping

  8. Now we have to do a bit more work for the mapping. Select the magnifying glass(🔎 icon) next to the Job Role field

    Job Role

  9. Make sure Job Title is selected here, and if not - add it

  10. Select OK

    Job Title

  11. Make sure the rest of the mapping is correct too and select Finish Import

    NOTE

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

  12. 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!

  1. Go to Copilot Studio and make sure you are in the same environment as where you imported the solution and the data

  2. Select Agents in the left navigation

    Agent Tab

  3. Select New Agent

    New Agent

  4. Select Configure

  5. For Name, enter:

    text
    Hiring Agent

  6. For Description, enter:

    text
    Central orchestrator for all hiring activities

    Configuration

  7. Select the ... next to the Create button on the top right corner

  8. Select Update advanced settings

    Settings

  9. As Solution, select Operative

  10. Select Update

    Update Solution Settings

  11. 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 the solution you will be building
✅ Solution Deployment: Successfully imported and configured the building blocks of the 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: Agent Instructions

📚 Tactical Resources ​

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

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