5 recruiting integrations that can boost the candidate experience

As you look to build best-in-class recruiting processes, you’ll likely need to integrate the applications your teams lean on throughout the hiring lifecycle. 

These integrations enable your interviewers, hiring managers, and recruiters to tackle critical tasks on time and get the support they need to thrive. In turn, your interviewees can receive better experiences consistently, which can sway them to join.

To help your team reap these benefits, we’ll walk through several examples of recruiting integrations. And, in case you’re looking to integrate recruiting systems with your product, we’ll break down a few powerful customer-facing integrations at the end.

Remind interviewers to submit score cards through the app they’re already on

You’ll likely want an interviewer to fill out a candidate’s scorecard soon after their interview. After all, any delays can lead the interviewer to forget critical details and can even lead the interviewer to forget to fill it out altogether.  

To help facilitate a fast score card completion time, you can integrate your email service provider with your business communications platform (e.g., Slack) and your video communications platform (e.g., Zoom) and build the following workflow: Once an interview ends (as determined by the video communications platform), the interviewer receives a message on their business communications platform that asks them to fill out their score card. The message can also include a link to the scorecard in the ATS so that the interviewer can easily access it.

Deliver accurate offer letters quickly

To help your recruiting team send offer letters quickly and without human errors, you can integrate your e-signature platform (e.g., DocuSign) with your applicant tracking system (e.g., Greenhouse) and build the following sync: Once a candidate is marked as hired in the ATS, their offer letter gets populated in the e-signature platform. 

The recruiter can go on to review the offer letter—in case there are any issues—before sending it off to the candidate. 

Related: Examples of ATS integrations

Add new hires to your HRIS solution to kickstart pre-boarding tasks

Your HR and IT teams will likely want to know when candidates sign their offer letters as soon as possible. That way, they can start working on pre-boarding tasks—such as ordering new equipment, provisioning applications, setting up badge access, etc.—on time.

To help both of these teams become aware as soon as possible, you can integrate your ATS with your HRIS solution and IT service management (ITSM) tool and build a sync where any time a candidate is marked as hired in the ATS, a new profile gets created and populated for them in your HRIS and ITSM solutions. 

From there, HR and IT can become aware of the incoming hire and begin working on their respective set of pre-boarding activities.

Create candidates in customers' ATS solutions as soon as your product recommends them

Let’s imagine that you offer a product that uses AI to identify and recommend target candidates for certain roles. 

To help your customers’ recruiters discover these candidates and follow-up with them quickly, you can integrate your product with customers’ ATS solutions and build a sync where any time your product recommends a candidate, they’re automatically added to the respective customer’s ATS solution (if they don’t already exist in the solution).

Add key candidate info to your product to support interviewers

Say you offer a product that, among other things, helps interviewers during their conversations with candidates. 

Your product does this by offering a copilot that can join calls and share information in your video communication platform’s UI, such as the candidate’s full name, the position they’re interviewing for, their current role, the number of years of experience they have, etc. 

To help the copilot gather and display this information, you can integrate with customers’ ATS solutions and sync the associated fields from their solutions with your product.

Integrate your product with all the recruiting tools your customers use with Merge

Merge, the leading unified API solution, offers a single API that lets you add more than a hundred HRIS and ATS integrations to your product.

The platform also offers Integration Observability tooling to help your customer-facing team manage customers’ integrations and integration maintenance support on your engineering team’s behalf.

You can learn more about Merge by scheduling a demo with one of our integration experts.