Happy September! 🎉 We've been working on updates to help your teams hire faster and smarter. 

Here's the latest feature releases and improvements.

Accessibility

Accessibility updates to the widget

You can now offer a more inclusive and compliant experience for all candidates who interact with your widget. We've improved functionality for screen readers and keyboard-only navigation while also enhancing overall visibility and color contrast. You no longer need to see confusing, non-descriptive announcements when using a screen reader. This ensures an effortless experience for every user. Additionally, we have made accessibility updates to our Terms and Conditions modal. 

Learn more about terms and conditions. 

Approvals

Approvals are now available in the recruiting dashboard

We've updated the Recruiting Dashboard to give you a central location for all your tasks. You can now manage all your job and offer approval requests directly from your Recruiting Dashboard. You no longer need to switch between your email, Approvals, and the Candidate Inbox to get tasks done. Now, you can take action on approvals, provide a reason for denial for a clear audit trail, and manage your tasks from one location.

Learn more about approval requests and tasks in the recruiting dashboard.

Candidate Profile

Easily access the latest and most relevant documents in your hiring process

You are now able to view a new dedicated Files section in the candidate profile of the most recent documents. You no longer need to navigate through multiple forms to find the most current document. This enhancement provides a single source of truth for all candidate documents, reducing confusion and helping to streamline compliance and the hiring process.

Contextual Q&A

Control emojis in your responses

We added a new setting that allows you to choose whether the AI assistant includes emojis in its responses, giving you greater personalization for your brand. This enhancement allows you to fine-tune the tone of your AI assistant’s responses to match your brand's voice. You no longer need to worry about emojis appearing in responses that feel off-brand.

Please contact your CS Representative to work on configuring this for your account.

Conversational ATS

Advanced shifts

For our Conversational ATS clients, you can now define shifts with specific start times, end times, and days of the week in a new, advanced interface within the Jobs builder. You no longer need to manually cross-reference candidate availability with shift schedules. This enhancement provides a more powerful and flexible way to manage shift-based roles, ensuring candidates are screened based on their exact availability and streamlining the hiring process for high-volume roles. 

Conversational Events

Auto-generate virtual meeting URLs for your hiring and orientation events

You can now can automatically generate video meeting links and passwords for virtual event sessions if your integrated video provider is Zoom, WebEx, or Microsoft Teams. You no longer need to leave the platform to manually create and paste meeting URLs into each virtual session. This enhancement eliminates the manual process of creating and adding video meeting links, saving you valuable time and streamlining your event creation workflow.

Learn more about the event builder.

Job Management

More validation for job pay rates in your job data packages 

You can now ensure pay accuracy with a new standard job attribute, Base Pay Actual. You no longer need to manually check if a hiring manager has entered a pay rate outside the acceptable range. This new attribute automatically validates against a job's approved pay range, which prevents misrepresenting a role's compensation and provides a more transparent experience for candidates.

Admin users can click here to learn more about this enhancement.

Integrated jobs

We are rolling out significant updates to our Job Management system to provide a more powerful and efficient experience. You can now manage both Paradox Jobs and Integrated Jobs in a single, unified view within the Jobs app. You no longer need to navigate to separate sections of the platform to manage different job types, which means you'll no longer have to rely on complex workarounds to manage job data and permissions outside of your ATS. These changes are part of our commitment to offering you greater flexibility and a streamlined workflow, including the ability to add richer job data and create custom hiring team roles.

Platform

Search for deactivated users

We've updated user search to be quicker and more intuitive! You can easily toggle between active and deactivated users with a new checkbox, eliminating the need for keyword searches. Your search results will smartly adjust, helping you find the right team member, whether they are active or deactivated. 

Learn more about searching for deactivated users in the filters modal.

SMS

EU ideal sender - region recognition

You can now use a single AI phone number for all EU countries on the SMS Country Whitelist. You no longer need to configure separate numbers for each EU country. This update improves SMS coverage and efficiency for our European clients by enabling seamless cross-border communication and simplifying configuration for clients operating in multiple countries.

Review this document and contact your CS Representative to learn more about this feature.

Scheduling

Permissions for manual scheduling actions

This update introduces granular user-level permissions for scheduling. You can now control which users can perform specific scheduling actions, such as editing or canceling interviews. You no longer need to rely on manual workarounds to prevent users from taking actions outside of their role. This empowers you to tailor the platform to your unique organizational structure and ensures that each user has access only to the scheduling functions relevant to their job.

Please contact your CS Representative to work on configuring these permissions for your account.

Workflows

New workflows design and overhaul

You can now use a new, re-designed builder with enhanced zoom controls and a hand tool for easier navigation on the canvas. You no longer need to manually add every journey status to a workflow; they are now automatically pre-populated as locked tasks. This redesign delivers a modern, intuitive, and scalable user experience that simplifies how you build and manage automation, which improves overall usability.