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It's been a productive few months here at the PontaHR offices and today we're launching a couple of pretty big updates. Buckle up, folks! 🥰
Send and receive emails
As of today, you can connect your Google account in PontaHR. Once you do that, you'll be able to send emails to candidates straight from inside of PontaHR. And their replies will live in the same place. Now, all of the communication between you and the candidates will be part of our Timeline view.
We have been working on this for quite some time. As always, we weren't satisfied with a barebones implementation. The emailing system inside of PontaHR is perfectly synced with your own Gmail inbox. It doesn't matter whether you send emails from inside of PontaHR, reply to emails from your Gmail inbox, or any other email client. Communicate with the candidates from wherever, and PontaHR will pick up the conversation.
We know that keeping on top of all these emails can be daunting, which is why we built an Inbox view inside of PontaHR. It's one place to see all of the emails from candidates, reply back to them, archive the conversations, and more. And all of it is immediately synced with your Gmail inbox.
As part of this work, PontaHR went through the full process of CASA certification, so you can be sure that all of your data is processed and stored safely and with the highest security standards.
To summarize, you can now:
- send emails to candidates;
- receive replies from candidates;
- create email templates with variables;
- attach files to emails;
- schedule emails to be sent at a later time;
- bulk email candidates;
- manage your correspondence through a unified Inbox view.
Interview kits
Structured interviews are really important when hiring. That's why we hope our release today will make your life a little bit easier. You can now create structured interview kits and assign them to different stages in the hiring pipeline.
Under your organization settings, you can create interview kit templates. Each template has a name, description, and one or more sections. Each section can have one or more questions and you can mark each question as mandatory.
Once all of your templates are set up, you can update your default hiring workflow and assign the interview kits to a stage in the pipeline. Now, each of your hiring stages can be set up so that the hiring team can:
- leave a simple score and comment;
- fill out a full interview kit;
- skip the score for that stage.
Of course, you can also set up each of your listings with a unique hiring workflow and interview kits.
Better scorecards
As part of the interview kit feature, we've also used this opportunity to spruce up the scorecards you leave for a specific candidate. Now, the scorecards are much more immersive, nicer-looking, and stand out on the candidate Timeline.
You're also able to react and comment on a scorecard from someone.
Improvements and Fixes
- ✨ We've added tooltips to the items in our navigation bar.
- ✨ We pride ourselves on PontaHR being fast. Well, we're making it faster every day. You should see some improvements when navigating around the platform.
- 🐞 Your team administrators were able to see the option to delete the organization, even though they couldn't actually delete it. Now, they can't even see the option (only owners can)!
- 🐞 We fixed some alignment issues in our rich-text formatting toolbar.
- 🐞 Previously, you had to add the network protocol to the links in rich-text fields. Now you can add links as you see fit, and we'll handle the rest.
- 🐞 Our emoji picker was acting a bit off in some cases and we can't have that, emojis are too important to have that kind of issue.