Time-to-schedule makes the difference between landing or losing exceptional candidates, this is why we keep building on our promise to eliminate the scheduling friction that delays candidate progress.
We’ve introduced exciting scheduling capabilities to help you navigate interviewer availability and unlock capacity to accelerate hiring success.
Read on for more details about these updates!
Even the best recruiters can’t win against poor calendar hygiene. Time commitments secured during kickoff meetings quickly become outdated, and interviewers, on the other hand, are overwhelmed in fulfilling their primary role responsibilities. This results in a frustrating cycle of unavailable slots, cancellations, and no-shows that delay your hiring process.
Interview Times enables recruiters to secure interviewer commitments to specific time slots through dedicated availability windows, e.g., “I’m available for interviews between 2 pm and 4 pm on Wednesday this week and Tuesday next week”. These time slots are transformed into dynamic placeholders in the interviewer’s calendar but remain fully adjustable by the interviewer.
Interview Times delivers some key benefits:
- For recruiters:
- Significantly reduces cancellations due to outdated availability and eliminates time-consuming back-and-forth renegotiations that slow down hiring
- Improves confidence that candidates are booking into actual available times with assigned interviewers
- Unlocks more capacity for interviews as hiring teams feel more comfortable sharing time commitments, knowing they can make changes independently as their day changes
- For interviewers: minimizes surprise interview invites and repetitive scheduling discussions while keeping them in control of their calendars
- Highly valuable for executive interviews where recruiters can’t directly access calendars or in scenarios requiring coordination with busy calendars
Read more about how to use Interview Times here.
Understanding who’s available to meet candidates has traditionally been a complex blend of manual calendar tetris, automated pool management, and a third critical factor— gut feel. This reliance on instinct creates a perpetual guessing game where talent acquisition leaders and recruiters are pressured to reduce time-to-hire but lack concrete evidence when interviewers are the scheduling bottlenecks.
Recruiters also often find themselves playing the waiting game, where they delay candidate progress while they negotiate additional times with interviewers. This typically occurs in advanced-stage interviews, which often require multiple stakeholders and can dramatically extend the hiring timeline.
Availability Reports visualize who’s available in an interview pool over a four-week period at a glance. With this, interview capacity becomes a measurable metric rather than an abstract concept, transforming your kickoff meetings from guesswork into data-driven planning conversations. Recruiters and TA leaders can proactively address capacity issues head-on instead of merely reacting to them.
Availability Reports also help you to:
- Instantly identify the most and least available interviewers based on their actual calendar availability
- Make smarter interviewer pairing decisions for upcoming interviews
- Anticipate scheduling bottlenecks weeks before they impact candidate experience
- Hold interviewers accountable to meet hiring targets
This feature also complements Interview Times by encouraging interviewers to make scheduling commitments they can easily adjust in their calendars through the hiring process.
Before now, if a hiring manager who was scheduled into an interview became unavailable, you’d have to cancel and offer the availability of a new interviewer, requiring the candidate to rebook. Now, you can edit and change the host without canceling and rescheduling the original interview.
Editing hosts unlocks some new possibilities, such as:
- Ensuring candidates progress through interview stages without schedule disruptions
- Supports the addition of a backup interviewer or a pool to find an ideal replacement
These enhancements will free recruitment teams to focus on high-value candidate interactions and improve hiring productivity.
Your next steps to reducing time-to-hire
Cronofy customers can instantly access these new features in the Scheduler, for assistance, please contact our support team. New to Cronofy and want to learn more about these solutions? Speak to a specialist and get a personalized tour of the Cronofy Scheduler today.
