This month we’re sharing updates that will make it easier to manage and communicate with candidates, including custom “thank you” pages, calendar invite statuses, and more.

You can now ask your applicants to provide a cover letter as part of the application. You can view this letter inside Pinpoint's interface. It will even work in harmony with our Anonymised Screening system to obscure personally identifiable information from the document, keeping the process as fair as possible.

For teams that use HiBob, previously you could send certain fields from Pinpoint to Hibob. Now you can send much more from Pinpoint, including all candidate information, offer details, and downloads. You can even send information after onboarding, including a candidate’s onboarding form answers. A more seamless setup, in just a few steps. Learn more here.

When creating a new job that's enabled for referrals, Pinpoint will automatically notify users of the opportunity to increase your reach. This is a valuable talent pool to take advantage of: Across 4.5 million applications on Pinpoint, we found that referrals are 7x more likely to be hired than candidates applying via job boards.

You can now give certain Pinpoint users the ability to block candidates, delete all applications a candidate has made, or merge applications into a single candidate profile. Blocking candidates will discount any applications they submit, but will not inform the candidate that they have been blocked. Assign your users the Candidate Manager role to make this possible.

In onboarding forms, designate required answer formats for certain fields (bank numbers, post codes, phone numbers, email addresses, etc.) to ensure you receive consistent data that can be shared across systems.

Designate separate data retention periods for hired and non-applicants. Keep necessary data related to employees on file, while still following relevant data policies. To adjust the setting, visit the Company > Profile menu.

You can now schedule emails to be sent before a new hire receives their onboarding invite. Complete your tasks in advance, so new hires have everything they need for day one.

After a candidate presses submit on their application, they'll be shown a Thank You page. For anyone with the Careers Site Editor role assigned to them, they can now customise the wording on this page.

When moving a applications between jobs, any prior offers will move with them, in case you need to adjust the job they are hired to after the offer of employment is made. The ability to move candidates between jobs may need to be enabled for your platform, so reach out to our support team via the chat icon in the platform if you'd like this switched on.

For companies that are hiring in Germany, you now have the option to choose between formal or informal translations depending on your brand guidelines. For formal translations, select “German (Deutsch - Sie),” and for informal translations, select “German (Deutsch).”

Edit the column names in custom reports to fit your internal terminology or to map onto other systems.

Never leave an interviewer waiting again. See the status of an interviewee's calendar event from within the Interview stage of a hiring workflow.