Product Roundup: Accelerating scheduling productivity for recruiting teams

The Cronofy product team delivered several high-impact features and enhancements to our scheduler product in 2024, improving the hiring effectiveness for recruiting teams through greater scheduling control and the reduction of manual, low-value tasks.

Through listening to our customers and understanding the specific needs of hiring teams, we identified and acted on three key areas:

• Scheduling control: The ability to edit details of already scheduled events and choose what event information is sent to candidates and interviewers.
• Scheduling at scale: ATS Placeholders in event descriptions, and a sleek sidebar extension for better context and scheduling workflow.
• Scheduling for all: Supporting 5 languages, new ATS integrations, and more complex interview types.

Let's unpack these improvements in more detail!

From within your ATS, dynamically render candidate and job details into any scheduling invite, eliminating the risk of inputting key details wrong. Placeholders not only reduce the risk of human error but also speed up interview scheduling coordination.

We’ve made it possible to edit existing scheduled events. Recruiters and coordinators can update the date or time of an event without being part of the calendar invite. This eliminates the need to chase interviewers for last minute changes in their calendars or for you to create a new invite from scratch.

Protect internal information about an interview from candidates with Separate Invites. Send separate calendar invites to different participants of a meeting in one go.

Cronofy Scheduler users can now schedule in German, French, Italian, and Spanish; we’re working on more languages to make scheduling a native and seamless experience for your team.

Our SuccessFactors integration solves the manual scheduling burden for SuccessFactors customers. Add automated scheduling into your SuccessFactors workflow in days, a seriously fast and powerful addition to your hiring processes and efficiency.

We didn't stop there, the team made several additional enhancements to the scheduler in 2024 such as a revamped Request Details page and improving the mobile experience of booking pages. This is all part of making the scheduling experience as streamlined and frictionless as possible. We also deepened our SmartRecruiters integration by enabling admins give interviewers access to candidate profiles on the fly via Hireloop.

Beyond an improved scheduling experience that eliminates long email chains and time-consuming manual scheduling, Cronofy users are scheduling interviews in record time and reporting a smoother candidate experience.

We’ve already made a big start to 2025 with exciting releases that continue to improve the scheduling experience for more hiring use cases:

• Improved browser extension experience: A sidebar view that works seamlessly inside your ATS and stays open alongside other pages— holding in-progress events even when you switch tabs.
• Availability modes: Control that ensures recruiters find sufficient interviewer availability through a hiring process while keeping interviewers in control of their calendars and the times they choose for interviews. Look out for more information on these new releases in weeks to come.

For teams that are wanting to improve hiring productivity in 2025, Cronofy is the reliable solution for interview scheduling automation that empowers recruiters with flexible controls to schedule any kind of interview, a truly seamless scheduling process that keeps scheduling inside your ATS and give an experience candidates love. Want to achieve results like Wise? Learn more about Cronofy's scheduling automation for recruitment teams.