Zoho Recruit Product Updates

Zoho Recruit Product Updates

Zoho Recruit has rolled out a substantial set of feature updates spanning resume templates, approval automation, offer negotiation, hiring pipelines, career site tracking, and more.

1. Advanced Formatted Resume Templates for Applications

Advanced Formatted Resume Templates now extend to the Applications module. Users can create application-specific Advanced Resume Templates using Zoho Writer, include Application fields directly, and generate formatted resumes straight from Application records.

Note: Candidate templates remain entirely separate from Application templates, and the existing limit of five Advanced Resume Templates per module is unchanged.

2. Approval SLA

Recruiters can now set deadlines for approval requests and configure automated actions to help prevent delays and keep recruitment processes moving. With Approval SLA, you can:

  • Set a maximum time limit for approvers to act on a request
  • Send automated reminders before the deadline
  • Configure actions to run before, on, or after the deadline
  • Automatically approve, reject, or delegate a request when required
  • Configure multiple escalation rules, applied based on specific conditions

Enable it via Setup, then Automation, then Approval Processes, then Approval SLA.

3. Pre-Offer

Recruiters can now manage offer discussions and negotiations with candidates directly within Zoho Recruit. Share proposed terms, receive candidate feedback, make revisions, and manage multiple rounds of negotiation before finalising an offer. Once terms are agreed, the Pre-Offer converts into a Final Offer and can be sent through the available delivery options, including e-signature.

4. Multiple Hiring Pipelines

Recruiters can now create multiple hiring pipelines to support different roles, departments, clients, industries, and hiring processes. Create or clone pipelines, assign them to specific job openings, and switch pipelines on existing job openings, helping align stages and status mappings with each individual hiring process while supporting more accurate candidate tracking, reporting, and workflow automation.

Availability: Multiple Hiring Pipelines are available for customers using the Applications module, across all paid plans, in both the Staffing Agency and Corporate HR editions.

5. Google Tag Manager for Career Site

Zoho Recruit now supports Google Tag Manager integration for your Career Site, letting you track candidate interactions and send selected event data to GTM. Connect a GTM container and track events such as Job Listing, Job Detail, Job Application Initiated, and Job Application Submitted, reviewing the variables associated with each event before saving the configuration.

Consent handling: A cookie consent banner is shown to candidates when GTM or supported quick-apply options are enabled, and tracking only takes place once consent is given.

6. Workflow Alerts Enhancement

Workflow Alerts now support sending an email alert as a single email to all recipients, letting each recipient see who else was included. Up to 50 recipients can be added to CC and BCC each.

Trade-offs to know: When this option is enabled, roles, groups, and territories can no longer be selected as recipients. Emails sent this way, as a single mass email, are not tracked, so email insights such as opens and clicks won't be recorded for them.

7. Color Coding for Blueprint Transitions

Colours can now be assigned to individual Blueprint transitions directly from the Blueprint designer. The selected colours also appear in the Blueprint Process section of records, making it easier to visually distinguish different actions, such as approvals, rejections, and review steps.

8. Night Mode (Beta)

Night Mode is now available as a Beta feature, offering a more comfortable viewing experience in low-light environments and improving UI accessibility.

Note: In this initial phase, Night Mode covers the major areas of Zoho Recruit, but Portals, the Career Site, and third-party pages are currently excluded, with coverage for these planned in upcoming phases. The Profile pop-up has also been revamped with an updated interface as part of this release.
Need help? 1 Cloud Consultants can help you set up Approval SLAs, Multiple Hiring Pipelines, and GTM tracking on your Career Site in Zoho Recruit. Book a discovery call with 1 Cloud Consultants.