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Importing Staff

Runnit can populate an organisation with staff from a spreadsheet, creating user accounts, adding them to the organisation, and indexing their profiles so they’re discoverable through search.

A staff import reads each person from your spreadsheet and:

  • Creates a user account and adds them to the organisation as a member.
  • Imports profile details such as biography, title, team, and skills.
  • Indexes each profile so staff can be found through semantic (meaning-based) search.

The importer reads your spreadsheet and matches its columns to profile fields. The header row is detected automatically, so it doesn’t need to be the first row.

ColumnDescriptionRequired
NameFull nameYes
BioStaff biography or descriptionNo
TitleJob titleNo
TeamDepartment or team nameNo
Primary SkillsComma-separated skillsNo
Contact DetailsPhone numberNo
LocationWork locationNo

People whose email already exists are skipped, so you can safely re-run an import without creating duplicates.

Imported profiles are indexed across their name and email, title, short and long bio, skills, preferred work types, portfolio, and project experience, so you can search staff by capability and background, not just by name.