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Recruit

Customize your application form to fit your hiring needs

You can now customize the application form to collect the information your team needs to make informed screening decisions. Tailor separate forms for candidates, referrers, and employees applying to internal positions.
What’s new
  • Customize application forms on both hosted and integrated careers websites
  • Manage separate application forms for candidates, referrers, and employees applying to internal positions
  • Show or hide supported application form fields and make them required or optional
  • Adjust application forms directly in company settings, no code required
  • Use code to further customize application forms and override settings configured in Recruit, including both existing and new code customizations
Customize application form fields - Product post
Getting started
This feature is gradually rolling out to all customers. When enabled for your account, you can go to your
Careers website settings
 and customize your application form (Owner or Admin role required). For more details, see our help article.

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Recruit

Keep your lead pipeline moving

We’ve made lead management more efficient for customers who connect with candidates on LinkedIn, and added a new option to convert candidates back into leads.
What’s new
  • Automatic updates based on LinkedIn messages
    : For customers using LinkedIn Recruiter System Connect (RSC), sending an InMail to a lead automatically updates the lead’s outreach status from
    Not Contacted
    to
    Contacted
    . When the lead replies, the status automatically updates to
    Responded
    . Learn more
  • Convert candidates to leads:
    If you need to convert a candidate back into a lead, you can now do so directly from their profile while preserving their files, links, outreach status, and activity history. Learn more
Lead management - Product post

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Recruit

Spend less time reviewing duplicate applications

Recruit is rolling out improvements to help keep your candidate database clean and reduce manual review of duplicate records. Recruit’s improved duplicate handling merges confirmed duplicates automatically, gives recruiters a way to separate records that were merged incorrectly, and can make sure candidates are notified when applying during the cool-down period.
What’s new?
  • Automatic duplicate merging:
    Recruit automatically identifies and merges duplicate candidates, except when human review is necessary. When candidates are merged, each hiring process is retained along with its status and source. Learn more
  • Easy unmerging:
    Recruiters can use the new Detach process feature to separate candidate profiles that were merged incorrectly. Learn more
  • Cool-down period:
    The previous “auto-resolve” setting has been renamed “cool-down period.” When a candidate applies multiple times within the defined period, Recruit helps prevent unnecessary duplicates from being created. You can now also enable an automated notification for candidates who re-apply during this period. Learn more
Recruit – Smart handling of duplicates
Getting started
These features are being gradually rolled out to all customers. We recommend visiting your
settings
 to review your cool-down period and notification options (requires an Admin or Owner role).

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Spark Hire AI

AI Notetaker

AI Notetaker automatically captures interview conversations and generates a concise, structured summary, so interviewers can stay focused on the candidate instead of taking notes. It also provides suggested evaluation notes based on what was discussed in the interview.
This helps teams save time, improve feedback quality, and move faster by turning interviews into clear, usable insights right after the call.
How it works
  1. AI Notetaker
    joins interviews and captures the conversation
  2. It generates
    an interview summary
    highlighting key topics like experience, skills, and candidate responses
  3. Then, AI Notetaker
    suggests evaluation notes
    , including pros, concerns, areas for further review, and scorecard ratings
  4. Teammates can
    review suggestions and accept, edit, or skip
    before submitting their evaluation
  5. The interview summary is
    available on the candidate profile
    as part of the candidate evaluation
Recruit – AI Note taker v3
Getting started
This feature is being gradually rolled out to customers on all plans. For more details, see our help article.

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Recruit

Turn pre-screen questionnaires into actionable candidate data

Candidates can now provide more of their required information directly through pre-screening questionnaires, and their answers will automatically save to the corresponding fields on their candidate profile. This helps recruiters keep candidate profiles more complete and makes key screening information easier to search, filter, and report on across the candidate database.
How it works
  • All candidate answers can now be saved to candidate fields, including newly supported dropdown and single-choice questions.
  • Use candidate field responses in Knockout questions to reject candidates who don't meet required criteria.
  • Admins can define which dropdown candidate fields can be presented to candidates to fill in on their own in a pre-screening questionnaire.
  • Candidate fields are available in candidate search, filters, and reports.
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For more details, see our help article.

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Spark Hire AI

AI Resume Review: Knockout requirements

AI Resume Review now supports Knockout requirements, helping you prioritize candidates more accurately when certain qualifications are truly non-negotiable. This enhancement improves ranking accuracy, and better aligns AI Resume Review results with real-world hiring decisions for roles with specific eligibility criteria such as specific experience, licenses, certifications, language proficiency, or location requirements.
How it works
  • Add
    “must”
    or
    “mandatory”
    to any non-negotiable public or internal requirement. For example, “Must have an active RN license in California” or “3+ years of experience as a team lead is a must.”
  • Choose
    Flexible match
    to factor mandatory requirements into the overall score or
    Strict match
    to automatically mark candidates as
    Low Fit
    when they miss at least one mandatory requirement
Knockout requirements - product post
Getting started
Spend less time reviewing candidates who don’t meet mandatory requirements and focus on stronger matches. See our help article for more details.

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Recruit

Automated Reference Checks in Recruit

Recruit now includes Automated Reference Checks, a dedicated workflow step powered by Spark Hire Meet. Teams can trigger, track, and review reference checks directly in Recruit, reducing manual coordination and capturing structured feedback as part of the hiring process.
How it works
  • Add an Automated Reference Check step to your position workflow.
  • Select a reference survey to choose the questions that the references will answer. You can customize these questions in Meet.
  • When a candidate reaches the step, they enter their reference details, and each reference is automatically emailed a request to provide feedback.
  • Responses and status updates are available on the candidate’s Evaluation in Recruit.
Recruit – Reference check (1)
Getting started
See our help article for more details.

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Spark Hire AI

Refresh AI Resume Review ratings after requirement updates

AI Resume Review re-evaluation lets teams fine-tune position requirements as they learn more about the ideal candidate profile. Updated rankings reflect the latest hiring criteria, improving accuracy without disrupting the workflow.
How it works
  • Update the position requirements or adjust AI Resume Review settings
  • Recruit automatically alerts you when existing AI Resume Review rankings may be outdated
  • Re-evaluate a single candidate or candidate groups using the latest requirements and generate updated fit ratings
  • Review refreshed candidate scores directly in the workflow and Evaluation tab
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Getting started
Re-evaluation is available for candidates who have already been processed by AI Resume Review. See our help article for more details.

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Recruit

Candidate interview reminders

Never miss an interview touchpoint again. Candidate interview reminders automatically send email reminders to candidates before scheduled interviews, helping recruiters reduce no-shows, save time, and create a more consistent candidate experience.
How it works
  • Choose a template by interview type: in person, phone, or video
  • Configure reminder timing for 24 hours before or 2 hours before the interview
  • Automatically send interview reminder emails to candidates before scheduled interviews
Recruit – Candidate Interview Reminder (auto-template)
Getting started
Configure interview reminder templates and timing preferences in your
company Auto-template settings
. For more details, read our help article.

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Recruit

Auto-send self-scheduling invites

When enabled, self-scheduling invites are sent to candidates when they reach an interview step. Use this feature for interviews where each candidate who passes the previous step should be invited to select a time, such as a screening interview. This helps teams spend less time on scheduling and move the hiring process forward faster.
How it works
  • Set a weekly invite limit for automatically sent invites for each interview
  • Select a message template for self-scheduling invites
  • Self-scheduling invites are sent automatically when a candidate reaches an interview step
  • Auto-send pauses when the weekly limit is reached, or no availability is found
  • Auto-send resumes when the next week starts or availability opens up
Recruit – Auto-scheduling autopilot
Getting started
This feature is gradually rolling out to all customers. See our help article for more details.
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