September 2026
New Features
- Whiteboard — Candidates can sketch and explain their ideas on a whiteboard during interviews.
- Take-Home Follow-Up Call — Add a short live call after a take-home assessment. The AI interviewer walks the candidate through the work they submitted, and what they explain updates the scorecard. Offer it to everyone who submits, or only to the candidates you pick. Learn more.
- Custom Application Forms — Build each job’s application form with 13 field types and ready-made suggested questions, save question sets as templates, and filter candidates by their answers. Learn more.
- Phone Screening (US) — Candidates in the US can now complete their AI screening interview over the phone.
Improvements
- Revamped Candidate Emails — Redesigned candidate emails. Candidates can now reply to them directly.
- Ashby Integration — Deeper write-back to Ashby. Trigger AI interviews from any interview-plan stage. Scores, a structured scorecard, a summary note and the full PDF report sync back to the candidate profile. Learn more
August 2026
New Features
- Take-Home Assessments — Add an AI-evaluated take-home coding round to any job. The AI writes each candidate’s problem, grades the submission against your rubric and builds a scorecard. Learn more
- AI-Assisted Coding — Optional add-on for take-homes. Candidates solve the problem with a provided AI coding assistant, and the evaluation covers how they worked with it, not just the final code. Learn more
- Greenhouse Integration — Jobs and candidates sync in automatically. Stage changes trigger AI interviews, and scores, reports and scorecards appear in Greenhouse. Learn more
- ZipRecruiter Integration — Post jobs to ZipRecruiter and invite every applicant to an AI interview the moment they apply. Learn more
Improvements
- AI Knowledge Base — The AI interviewer now answers candidate questions about your company more accurately. Learn more
March 2026
New Features
- Scale Plan — A new plan between Starter and Pro for teams that want AI to handle initial screening and interviews. Compare plans
February 2026
Documentation Launch — We’ve launched our new documentation site at docs.hellorecruiter.ai! Browse guides for companies and candidates, troubleshooting help, and best practices.
New Features
- Interview Agenda with Voice Interviews — Design structured interview agendas with custom questions and run them as voice-based AI interviews.
- HR Agent — Launch of our AI-powered HR Agent, connected to your hiring pipeline for end-to-end automation.
- AI Persona Settings — Customize the AI interviewer’s name, tone, and communication style to match your company culture.
Improvements
- Interview Styles — New candidate guides for HR interviews, code interviews and technical assessments.
- Bulk Interview Links — Send interview invitation links to multiple candidates at once.
- Candidate-Facing Email Clarity — Updated interview invitation emails to clearly communicate that interviews are conducted by AI.
- Candidate Application Visibility — You can now see failed and in-progress candidate applications alongside completed ones.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where interview links expired prematurely for paused jobs that were re-activated.
- Fixed the “Resend Invitation” button not working for expired interview links.
January 2026
New Features
- Voice Interviews — Launch of our first voice interview option. Candidates can now take a voice-based interview powered by pre-defined screening questions.
- Evaluation Criteria Builder — Define custom scoring rubrics per job with weighted categories, must-have requirements, and auto-generated evaluation questions.
- AI Knowledge Base — Upload company documents (FAQs, handbooks, product sheets) so the AI interviewer can answer candidate questions about your organization accurately.
Improvements
- Candidate Notes & Comments — Add comments and internal notes for individual candidates or in bulk across your pipeline.
- Improved Job Description Generator — AI-generated job descriptions now include bias-free language checks and role-level salary benchmarking suggestions.
- Enhanced Job Types — Save jobs for different work arrangements (onsite, hybrid, remote) and employment types (full-time, part-time, freelancer).
Bug Fixes
- Resolved a display bug in the candidate scorecard where risk signal badges overlapped on smaller screens.
- Resolved a bug in risk analysis where duplicate risk signals were shown for the same candidate.
- Resolved a bug where
.docxresume uploads would occasionally fail due to encoding errors.
December 2025
New Features
- AI-Powered Job Descriptions — Generate complete, optimized job descriptions from a brief role summary. Includes responsibilities, qualifications, and benefits sections.
- Job Lifecycle Management — New status system for jobs: Draft, Active, Paused, and Closed. Pause jobs to temporarily stop accepting candidates without losing data.
- Candidate Scorecards — Comprehensive post-interview evaluation cards with overall scores, section breakdowns, and AI-generated hiring recommendations.
Improvements
- Faster Interview Processing — Reduced average interview analysis time from 8 minutes to under 3 minutes.
- Company Branding — Upload your logo and customize your home page URL. Create your own branded careers page.
- Bulk Candidate Actions — Select multiple candidates to move to a different stage in one click or reject.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a rendering issue with the job creation wizard on Safari 14.
- Resolved an edge case where duplicate candidate entries appeared when the same email was submitted twice.
- Resolved a display bug in the candidate scorecard where risk signal badges overlapped on smaller screens.
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