Be your own candidate: rehearse the exact screening experience your campaign creates: real AI, the real result, zero external sends.
4 min readIn this video you'll rehearse a campaign by playing the candidate yourself. Nothing is sent to anyone.
Open the campaign's dry run. The banner says it's a simulation, and the draft sends nothing until you start it.
Step one explains the rehearsal. Step two shows the exact cold email this campaign sends, under PlacementFlow's name.
Step three is the reply PlacementFlow sends by itself when someone answers interested: a short note with their private screening link.
On step four, open the screening form. It's the same link a candidate gets. Answer the way they would: straight, vague or brief. The AI reacts to what you type, one question at a time.
After the first questions, the form offers a few more. Answer them now, as a keen candidate would.
Now you're the recruiter. On Today, under Qualified, open the rehearsal candidate, marked as a simulation, and approve them. The dialog confirms that no email is sent.
Back in the dry run, step five shows what the real engine made of it. Here, the answers are captured for your talent pool. Below, a preview of what your client would see.
To try again, open the rehearsal tools: Run another dry run, or Purge simulation data to clear the test candidates.
Start campaign is here too, but this video stops before it.
Next: answer the replies your campaign brings in.
The Dry Run lets you roleplay a candidate through your own pipeline before anything goes live. The AI side is the real production engine — the same Qualifier, review gate, deeper questions and answer processing — but nothing is sent to anyone, and nothing counts against your analytics.
Saving a campaign with Test it first (dry run) drops you into the Dry Run with that draft's copy loaded. You can also open it later from Campaigns, with Dry run & start on the draft's row.
Sessions can also end the other honest ways: if you decline the lead at the gate, ask to talk to a person instead (the screening pauses, as it would for a real candidate, though a rehearsal files nothing on Today), or reply STOP (the opt-out is honoured instantly).
For a draft campaign, the run ends in a single decision card, Ready to start "your campaign"?, with the start checklist inline:
From there: Start campaign (with a confirmation), Run another dry run, or adjust the desk's screening questions and rehearse again. (The outreach emails are managed by PlacementFlow — you can view them from the draft panel, but they aren't edited per campaign.)
Simulation candidates and conversations are tagged as simulations end to end: no emails, no notifications to clients, and nothing appears in your analytics or dashboards as real activity. A one-click purge removes all simulation data whenever you like.