Feature Requests

As it stands at the moment, candidates who started their submission yet didn't finish, remain "locked" in the "In-progress" stage. This is fine to a certain degree. Once an opening is reaching its conclusion, you would want to clear house and send final notifications to everyone, including these candidates. Please consider being able to move those candidates to any other custom stage.

For one of our openings, we several applicants that have no finished their submission. The auto reminder is great to keep these applicants engaged. The limit to this should be either: The deadline indicated in the opening settings (I've discussed about this setting/field in another post) minus Z days (setting) A fixed amount of days Y after the start of the submission This could be done upgrading the stage with: Add setting Z Add setting Y Add custom body copy for the Last Call Rationale: When attempting to create our own Last Call custom stage, the variable @[Assessment link] is not available so we can't give a method to follow up on the CTA.

It has happened to us that duplicating a job has resulted in the same Meta description and thus showing erroneous information in our previews across platforms. A good way to avoid this type of inconsistencies could be to have a "preview"/"approval" step whereby all the fields related (including settings) to a position would be summarized (some even "demonstrated" such as Meta Description. Further idea: This could be one step towards implementing multi-step approval processes sometime in the future.

In general terms, hiring processes are not mono-step. Once a candidate has been shortlisted you very likely want to run an interview and some other further steps. Phases that come to mind: In-person interview: Would help to have an internal form so that the Team Members conducting the interview can prepare the questions they want to ask as well as register the answers. Online interview: Pretty much as we have now for submissions, it would help to be able to create further questions and/or recording requests. Due diligence: Now the candidate needs to submit a number of specific fields and/or documents to proceed with the hiring process (think ID number, etc.) Rather certain there are other scenarios I am not thinking of now. Sure, all of the above can be done off-app. The argument remains that it's best to have one single source of process as opposed to move in and out (because for example, you email notifications were the way you updated the candidate and it only makes sense to retain it until the hiring process is fully finalized).

AI-powered insights into candidate performance at every plan level and AI resume review could elevate it even further, also having resume upload be a standard process and not have to be built into every job.

On occasions, certain communications with candidates need to be ad-hoc. Yes, they can be had through email directly (as notifications may open the doors for that) yet that hits the problem that those won't show on the Timeline. Content in those exchanges may be relevant and specific negotiations may be had.

When inviting candidates to a position, there's the option of uploading via CSV. For candidates that have applied in the past and have consented (not hard to track consent that orgs can activate with a setting), it would make sense to have those readily available. (This connects with the other Feature request of candidates having their own "Profile page".)

Automate downloads of all or selected applications to Google drive

(I can't think of a better title although I am not certain it reflects the suggested Feature) When we review candidates, we have a color code. We use it to highlight text in the CV (or any other attached document) and we easily infer whether something is positive or not. Yes, we have Comments on Hirewire yet they aren't at the moment linked to attachments (or any field for that matter) so contextualizing a comment is "costly". Our code is something along these lines: Orange: Related to the position requirements Yellow: UNrelated to the position requirements Purple: Interesting for other organizational reasons/needs Red: Red Flag Green: Blah Blah Blah (the content is just filling and provides no value) Giving the Team Members the ability to do these highlights with a custom color coding per org would allow Printing out the docs Moving the docs outside of Hirewire, do the annotations, upload back to Hirewire The problem I can imagine is that this would impose the development of a PDF/DOC (converted to PDF?) annotator interface. I get that's quite the ask. I nonetheless think this would allow a more seamless in-app flow for all things recruitment.

In the dashboard, it would make sense to give a bit of a color coding to each JD so that Team Members can easily identify what's going on with them. The Statuses I can think of at the moment are: Draft (hasn't been published - easy to detect) Active (has been published) Paused (not available to submit anymore) Archived (Done with that position) Note: Icons could also work, it's a UI decision. In the case of icons thought, some may be interactive such as Active > Paused. These differentiations may help the team to easily identify pending positions to complete before publishing, etc. Some intermediary approvals could be considered. That's another story.