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# Recruiting Participants for Your Strella Research Study

> Find, screen, and invite the right participants for any study—using Strella's panel partners or your own candidate pool with ease.

Strella gives you everything you need to fill your study with the right participants—fast. Whether you tap into millions of panelists through Strella's partner network or bring your own customer list, the recruiting workflow keeps targeting, screening, inviting, and paying participants all in one place.

## What's covered in this section

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  <Card title="Setting Up a Screener" icon="filter" href="/recruiting/setting-up-a-screener">
    Build a participant screener from scratch, paste an existing one, or let AI generate targeted questions in seconds.
  </Card>

  <Card title="How to Hire Participants" icon="users" href="/recruiting/how-to-hire-participants">
    Order participants from Strella's panel partners (Respondent.io and User Interviews) or share a link with your own pool.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Audience Templates" icon="bookmark" href="/recruiting/audience-templates">
    Save your audience criteria once and reuse them across every project in your workspace with a single click.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Inviting Participants" icon="envelope" href="/recruiting/inviting-participants">
    Review qualified applicants' demographics and screener responses, then send interview invitations directly from Strella.
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## Additional recruiting topics

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  <Card title="Extend a Panel Audience" icon="arrow-up-right-dots">
    Add more participants to an active order without starting over.
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  <Card title="Incentives" icon="gift">
    Choose incentive amounts that motivate participation and fit your budget.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Optimizing Response Rates" icon="chart-line">
    Use auto-invite, branding, and compelling study copy to maximize completions.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Participant Management" icon="list-check">
    Process payments, reject applicants, and keep your participant list clean.
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  <Card title="Redirects" icon="arrow-right-arrow-left">
    Send participants to a custom completion page after they finish their interview.
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  <Card title="URL Metadata" icon="code">
    Pass metadata through study links to capture or forward it to external systems.
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