--- title: Invitation to Video Interview - Importing Candidates description: How can you invite candidates by importing them? 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To import the candidates manually, simply choose the **type of invitation** (Classic or Advanced) and manually enter the required data depending on the type of invitation chosen, to learn more read the article dedicated to the invitations : **[How to Invite candidates?](https://help.cleverconnect.com/en/knowledgebase/how-to-invite-candidates?hsLang=en)** The manual invitation is recommended only in the case of invitations from single candidates or a very small list of candidates. **When you have many candidates to invite, you can choose to import a file.** You have an example of how the file must be filled to be recognized by our system, in fact when you are in the invitation page you will just click on ***Import*** and then on ***View Help*** to download the Excel template. ![](https://support.cleverconnect.com/help/servlet/rtaImage?eid=ka0W50000001KJF&feoid=00NW5000001dsMX&refid=0EMW500000CgXYX) ![](https://support.cleverconnect.com/help/servlet/rtaImage?eid=ka0W50000001KJF&feoid=00NW5000001dsMX&refid=0EMW500000CgXez) **Be careful** : you can also enter only the email address of the candidates in the reference column BUT you do not have to delete the other columns, it will be enough to leave them empty otherwise the risk is that the file will not be read correctly. #### **Difference between Import Excel and Import CSV** As you may have noticed you have 2 types of Imports on Visiotalent, the first in Excel format and the second in CSV format. ![](https://support.cleverconnect.com/help/servlet/rtaImage?eid=ka0W50000001KJF&feoid=00NW5000001dsMX&refid=0EMW500000CgXwj) The difference is that CSV files are saved in text only with comma separated fields on a single column, while XLS files can contain formatted text and cell separated fields. As for the import on our platform, it doesn’t change much from an operational point of view, in fact you can import both types of files using the Excel template we talked about above. 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