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Create new employee records from weekly hiring emails

Automatically detect weekly hiring notifications across Gmail and HR tools. Create and update employee onboarding records when hiring emails include CSV or report URLsβ€”so you can extract hire rows, match by employee ID, and populate HR fields without manual data entry.

How this automation creates employee records

When weekly hiring notifications arrive in Gmail, delays can stall onboarding and payroll setup. This automation monitors email inputs, extracts and parses CSV hire data, and creates Airtable employee recordsβ€”so your team can move faster.

  1. 1.Monitors weekly hiring emails

    Integrate Gmail and email parsing tools to watch for weekly hiring notifications and pass the email body HTML onward.

    Gmailor swap with your favorite app
  2. 2.Extracts the CSV URL

    Integrate Formatter by Zapier and CSV URL extraction tools to extract the first CSV or report URL from the email body.

    Formatter by Zapieror swap with your favorite app
  3. 3.Requests CSV contents

    Integrate Webhooks by Zapier and fetching tools to request the CSV URL and return raw CSV or text.

    Webhooks by Zapieror swap with your favorite app
  4. 4.Parses CSV to structured rows

    Integrate ChatGPT (OpenAI) and parsing tools to extract structured hire data into a JSON array of rows.

    ChatGPT (OpenAI)or swap with your favorite app
  5. 5.Iterates parsed hire rows

    Integrate Looping by Zapier and batch processing tools to loop each parsed row for record creation.

    Looping by Zapieror swap with your favorite app
  6. 6.Creates employee records

    Integrate Airtable and HR table tools to create employee records and map hire fields like department and employee ID.

    Airtableor swap with your favorite app

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Calendly
Okta
Zendesk
Dropbox
Asana
Allstate
Airbnb
ActiveCampaign
Lyft
Webflow
Canva
Sysco
LA Clippers
Getaround
Grammarly
HelloFresh
Lululemon
Barry's
Hopper
Casper
Hudl
Miro
The New York Times
Ruggable

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