<aside> 💡 Take Home activities are one of several Activities supported in Ashby. This guide covers take-home functionality in more detail.

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Take-home overview

If your interview process involves candidates completing a take-home project or assignment, the Take Home activity will allow you to define the details of the assignment including reviewer and candidate instructions, who the assigned reviewer is, and how the candidate should submit their assignment. We would recommend setting up at least one email template to use for take-home assignments.

Setup the take-home

A take-home activity can be added to the corresponding stage of a job’s interview plan. See below for step-by-step setup instructions

Add the take-home activity

• First, navigate to your job, then to the Interview Plan tab.
• Scroll to the stage you’d like to add your take-home activity to and click the Add Activity To option.
• Click + Add Activity.
• Select Take-home.

Assign one or more reviewers

You can assign your reviewers by clicking the Add Reviewer button. You can then select the reviewers using the drop-down options.

Much like interviewers on a schedule interview activity, you can add multiple reviewers to one slot to create a round-robin, or add multiple reviewer slots, so multiple people review an assignment.

Add the assignment details

To configure the assignment details, click the + Create New Take-home button. You have options to configure:

Overview: The assignment title, and if feedback is required.

Notes for Reviewers: Any information that would be helpful for those reviewing the take-home submission.

Assignment: The assignment details for the candidate (if added this enables self-submission).

Feedback Form: The feedback form that reviewers will be asked to complete for the take-home submission.

Setting up Email Templates

Now that you’ve configured the Take Home activity, you can configure an Email Template to streamline sending instructions to the candidate.

Email template for self-submission (recommended)

With self-submission, you’ll embed the Take Home Submission Link token in the email template.

If you create an email template with a self-submission link, this template can be specified in the Communications tab of your take-home activity. Then when the activity is generated on the candidate profile, you can quickly generate an email and send it out using the specified template.

Please note: The email template must have a Take Home Submission Link substitution token in the template in order for it to show in the Email Template dropdown. If your email template isn’t listed, please ensure that this substitution token is added. More on these at Substitution Tokens.