# Audience recipes

Five practical audience setups to welcome new hires, re-engage inactive members, reward top networkers, automate mentoring and build custom groups.

import Callout from '@components/Callout.astro';

Here are five ways to get the most out of [audiences](/admin/categories-and-audiences/audiences/). Each recipe gives the audience type and the filters to set. To build them, see [Create an audience](/admin/categories-and-audiences/create-an-audience/).

## Welcome and engage new employees

Create a warm welcome by automatically inviting new team members into your onboarding program as soon as they join your organization.

**Recommended setup**

- Dynamic audience
- "Created Date" "Is after N days ago" 60 (profile created within the last 60 days)
- "Number of matchs (overall)" "Is equal to" 0

<Callout type="tip">
  If your members have a hire date category (for example synced from your HRIS), filter on it instead of "Created Date": the audience then follows each person's real arrival date. See [Onboarding buddy program](/admin/best-practices/onboarding-buddy-program/).
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## Re-engage your inactive members

Boost participation by targeting members who dropped off or never fully engaged, and offer them fresh invitations or special matches to reconnect.

**Recommended setup**

- Dynamic audience
- "Last matched date" "Is before N days ago" 90 (no match in the last 90 days)
- "Number of matchs (overall)" "Less than" 2

<Callout type="note">
  Members who have never been matched have no "Last matched date", so the first filter leaves them out. To include them too, create a second audience with "Number of matchs (overall)" "Is equal to" 0, and select both audiences in your program.
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## Reward your star networkers

Highlight and reward your most engaged employees with recognition and special experiences.

**Recommended setup**

- Dynamic audience
- "Number of matchs (overall)" greater than 40
- "Last matched date" "Is after N days ago" 30 (matched within the last 30 days)

## Automate mentoring matches

Streamline your mentoring program by automatically removing mentees and mentors once they have been matched.

**Recommended setup**

- Dynamic audience
- "Number of matchs (per program)" "Is equal to" 0, with your mentoring program selected
- Your participant type category (for example "Participant type") "Is one of" mentee, mentor

See [Create a mentoring program](/admin/mentoring/create-a-mentoring-program/).

## Create custom static audiences

Launch tailored programs by adding people by hand to a fixed group. This is perfect for initiatives aimed at specific teams that also include valuable participants from outside those teams.

**Recommended setup**

- Static audience
- Filters based on categories, activity and more
- Plus other people added by hand