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April 18, 2023, SAN FRANCISCO – After surveying 531 talent acquisition leaders across sectors for its 2023 Hiring Insights Report, today GoodTime released the report’s retail edition, featuring sector-specific insights. Based on responses from 108 talent acquisition (TA) leaders in retail, the report highlights the challenges hiring leaders face to attract and retain high volumes of talent and explores the changes they are making to achieve their business objectives and hit their hiring goals. 

The high-level findings from the 2023 Hiring Insights Report, Retail Edition, include:

• Less than 50% of hiring goals were met by retail talent teams in 2022
• 41% of talent leaders say the increase in recruitment team turnover will impact their ability to hit their goals
• A staggering 70% of subjects reported layoffs; 32% reported a reduction in force of 20% or more
• 34% of respondents will improve personalization and the candidate experience in the coming year
• 33% of TA leaders look to improve overall efficiency in 2023

The economic downturn hit retail TA teams

The report details the difficulties faced by retail TA leaders in the midst of economic instability, with 25% of respondents citing applicants with inflated resumes and candidates with multiple offers as top challenges. Hybrid work challenges (24%) and unrealistic compensation expectations (24%) round out the biggest obstacles of 2022. In today’s economy, TA leaders must acquire skilled talent amid padded resumes and competing offers while also mitigating the impacts of layoffs.

Personalization and candidate experience a top priority

Looking ahead, 41% of talent leaders expect that the surge in recruitment team turnover will only make it harder to meet their goals. Winning talent with reduced headcount requires a refined, engaging hiring process. Increasing personalization (34%) and improving the candidate experience (34%) are tied for talent leaders’ top focus area, with boosting efficiency (33%) following closely behind. Upgrading their hiring tech stacks allows teams to deliver on these priorities with a personalized, streamlined candidate experience, no matter the hiring volume.

“Hiring teams in retail have numerous obstacles stacked against them,” said Ahryun Moon, CEO of GoodTime. “Addressing high turnover, filling vacancies and seasonal roles, and navigating high-volume hiring requires teams to reassess their operations for gaps and areas of improvement. Teams must center their efforts on refining the hiring process to deliver a well-rounded candidate experience, one that is equally engaging as it is efficient.” 

To access the full report, visit here.

About GoodTime

GoodTime helps people and companies drive better results from their most important meetings. The GoodTime Meeting Optimization Engine automates scheduling, ensures the right people are in the room, and provides actionable insights to meet smarter. Its flagship product, Hire, allows organizations to win top talent faster with Candidate Relationship Intelligence. Over 300 leading companies like Spotify, Slack, Pinterest, Okta, HubSpot, and Box have scheduled over seven million smart meetings with GoodTime. Learn more at goodtime.io.

April 4, 2023, SAN FRANCISCO – After surveying 531 talent acquisition leaders across sectors for its 2023 Hiring Insights Report, today GoodTime released the report’s financial services edition, featuring sector-specific insights. Based on responses from 109 talent acquisition (TA) leaders in financial services, the report highlights the hurdles hiring leaders face to win skilled talent amid layoffs and budget cuts and reveals how they plan on meeting their goals this year.

The high-level findings from the 2023 Hiring Insights Report, Financial Services Edition, include:

• Less than 50% of hiring goals were met by financial services talent teams in 2022
• The biggest challenge expected by talent leaders is limitations of hiring technology
• A staggering 71% of subjects reported layoffs; 26% reported a reduction in force of 20% or more
• 44% of respondents will improve hiring efficiency in the coming year
• 43% of TA leaders look to optimize automation in the hiring process in 2023

Economic downturn hit financial services hard

The report details the difficulties endured by financial services TA leaders as economic headwinds continue to impact the sector, with 33% of respondents citing applicants with inflated resumes as a top challenge. An overwhelming number of applicants (32%) and a lack of qualified candidates (31%) took second and third place as the biggest obstacles faced. In today’s economy, TA leaders must identify skilled candidates amid a deluge of resumes and a qualified talent deficit while navigating the effects of layoffs.

Efficiency and productivity a crucial focus

Looking to the future, the biggest challenge expected by talent leaders is the limits of their current hiring technology (34%). The top areas related to hiring that teams look to improve in 2023 are efficiency (44%), optimizing automation (43%), increasing personalization (42%), and upgrading hiring technology (42%). Leveraging new, advanced tech solutions allows teams to address their top reported challenge ahead and deliver on these key focus areas with a refined, compelling hiring process.

“We’re in the middle of a tough hiring and economic climate,” said Ahryun Moon, CEO of GoodTime. “Mass layoffs, shallow talent pools, and reduced resources only scratch the surface of the challenges bearing down on financial services companies. But in spite of these obstacles, the talent teams that shift their focus towards efficiency and streamlining the hiring process stand a much greater chance at hitting their goals.”

To access the full report, visit here.

About GoodTime

GoodTime helps people and companies drive better results from their most important meetings. The GoodTime Meeting Optimization Engine automates scheduling, ensures the right people are in the room, and provides actionable insights to meet smarter. Its flagship product, Hire, allows organizations to win top talent faster with Candidate Relationship Intelligence. Over 300 leading companies like Spotify, Slack, Pinterest, Okta, HubSpot, and Box have scheduled over seven million smart meetings with GoodTime. Learn more at goodtime.io.

March 28, 2023, SAN FRANCISCO – GoodTime, the world’s first Meeting Optimization Engine, today announced a new integration between its GoodTime Meet product, a scheduling software for remote and hybrid teams, and Gem, a talent engagement and analytics platform. Leveraged directly in Gem, the integration streamlines scheduling during the sourcing process by creating an automated experience for both recruiters and candidates.

Recruiters can synchronize Meet and Gem with just the click of a button from Gem’s settings. After recruiters add a Meet scheduling link from Meet’s Chrome extension or web app into their automated email sequences, Gem tracks when a candidate schedules a meeting and stops the sequence from sending further follow-ups. This eliminates the need for recruiters to manually track booked meetings and gives candidates an efficient experience.

“Talent professionals must aim to improve the candidate experience, and this is especially true when sourcing passive candidates. You want their experience to be as smooth and polished as possible,” said Ahryun Moon, CEO & Co-Founder at GoodTime. “This integration completely automates the scheduling process, creating a better candidate experience and saving time by eliminating back-and-forth emails. And now that recruiters don’t have to manually check when candidates schedule, their workload benefits as well.”

This integration of GoodTime Meet and Gem also allows recruiters to leverage company branding capabilities within Meet to share customized and branded scheduling pages seen by candidates. As a result, candidates receive a unique hiring experience and get to know the company’s brand from their very first first interaction with an organization.

“One of the things we hear constantly from talent professionals is that they struggle with tech stacks that aren’t integrated, and so they can’t offer a seamless candidate experience,” says Steve Bartel, CEO and Co-Founder at Gem. “And in this world in which talent brand perhaps matters more than ever, no hiring team can afford to overlook talent’s initial experience with their organization. We’re excited for this partnership and this integration because it will give passive talent that easeful experience—without taxing sourcers and recruiters in the process.”

About GoodTime

GoodTime helps people and companies drive better results from their most important meetings. The GoodTime Meeting Optimization Engine automates scheduling, ensures the right people are in the room, and provides actionable insights to meet smarter. Its flagship product, Hire, allows organizations to win top talent faster with Candidate Relationship Intelligence. Over 300 leading companies like Spotify, Slack, Pinterest, Okta, HubSpot, and Box have scheduled more than seven million smart meetings with GoodTime. Learn more at goodtime.io.

About Gem

Gem’s talent engagement platform helps recruiting teams use data and automation to improve hiring speed, quality, and diversity.

Gem unifies data and context from the tools recruiters use every day, including email, applicant tracking systems, LinkedIn, and other social networks, to create a source of truth for all talent relationships. Armed with insights about the entire recruiting process, automation to reach out to talent at scale, and true cross-functional collaboration tools, TA teams can proactively and strategically plan for what’s ahead.

Gem’s customers are savvy recruiting teams from industry-leading companies—like Wayfair, Cintas, UnitedHealth Group, and Robinhood—who understand that hiring the best talent in the market is key to maintaining their competitive advantage.

March 21, 2023, SAN FRANCISCO – After surveying 531 talent acquisition leaders across sectors for its 2023 Hiring Insights Report, today GoodTime released the report’s healthcare edition, featuring sector-specific insights. Based on responses from 105 talent acquisition (TA) leaders in healthcare, the report highlights the obstacles resource-strained hiring leaders face to fill their many vacancies and explores the changes they are making to hit their goals in the year ahead. 

The high-level findings from the 2023 Hiring Insights Report, Healthcare Edition, include:

• Just 50% of hiring goals were met by healthcare talent teams in 2022
• The top challenge last year was limitations of current hiring technology
• A staggering 55% of subjects reported layoffs; 17% reported a reduction in force of 20% or more
• 42% of respondents will prioritize efficiency and improving time-to-hire in the hiring process in the coming year
• 40% of TA leaders look to improve the candidate experience in 2023

Technology limitations a top hiring challenge

The report paints a stark picture of difficulties faced by healthcare TA leaders over the past twelve months, with limitations of hiring technology ranking as one of the top challenges (30%). Changes in company hiring policies (30%) and hybrid work struggles (26%) round out the biggest obstacles of 2022. In today’s hiring environment, TA leaders must reassess and upgrade their healthcare recruiting software while adapting to ever-changing policies and demands for flexible work structures.

Efficiency and speed high on agenda

Looking to the future, talent leaders know that meeting their goals with reduced budgets and fewer resources requires an efficient, fast hiring process. Improving overall efficiency (42%) and time-to-hire (42%) are tied for their top focus area. Addressing their biggest challenge from the prior year and upgrading hiring technology allows teams to maximize their productivity and make headway on these top priorities.

“Ever since pre-pandemic times, we’ve seen the healthcare sector face an uphill battle,” said Ahryun Moon, CEO of GoodTime. “Keeping up with the sector’s high demand for talent while juggling staff turnover, burnout, and shallow candidate pools requires innovative solutions. Optimizing for efficiency and speed allows TA teams to deliver a smoother hiring process and an improved candidate experience without increasing the workload.”

To access the full report, visit here.

About GoodTime

GoodTime helps people and companies drive better results from their most important meetings. The GoodTime Meeting Optimization Engine automates scheduling, ensures the right people are in the room, and provides actionable insights to meet smarter. Its flagship product, Hire, allows organizations to win top talent faster with Candidate Relationship Intelligence. Over 300 leading companies like Spotify, Slack, Pinterest, Okta, HubSpot, and Box have scheduled over seven million smart meetings with GoodTime. Learn more at goodtime.io.

March 14, 2023, SAN FRANCISCO –  GoodTime, the world’s first Meeting Optimization Engine, today announced that it’s flagship product, GoodTime Hire for interview scheduling, is now available on SAP^® Store, the online marketplace for SAP and partner offerings. GoodTime Hire integrates with SuccessFactors and delivers advanced automated interview scheduling and intelligence to customers.

“The modern recruiting team is fighting an uphill battle on multiple fronts. The shortage of resources, partially due to recent layoffs, and an all-time low unemployment rate means teams must do more with less while still delivering against hiring goals,” said Ahryun Moon, CEO & Co-Founder, GoodTime. “Through this partnership, we combine the power of GoodTime Hire with SuccessFactors to help teams automate time-consuming scheduling activities, drastically increase productivity and efficiency, and ultimately reduce time-to-hire. By onboarding in the SAP platform, SuccessFactors clients now have access to GoodTime Hire to increase efficiency and productivity in their hiring process which is critical in today’s economic climate.”

GoodTime Hire helps talent acquisition teams improve productivity and efficiency through: 

• Automated Interview Scheduling: Easily coordinate single and multi-day interviews no matter the complexity
• High-Volume Messaging: Reach candidates directly through SMS or WhatsApp with personalized 1:1 messages or in bulk
• Intelligent Interviewer Matching: Find the best available interviewer instantly based on skills, focus area, and team, taking into account interviewer load limits
• Candidate Engagement and Experience: Accommodate candidates with candidate-driven availability selection and self-rescheduling, and collect anonymous feedback after each step of the interview process
• Data and Insights: Unlock data not available in your ATS and quickly identify opportunities for improvement with dashboards on recruiting, interviewers, interview time, and more

SAP Store, found at store.sap.com, delivers a simplified and connected digital customer experience for finding, trying, buying and renewing more than 2,300 solutions from SAP and its partners. There, customers can find the SAP solutions and SAP-validated solutions they need to grow their business. And for each purchase made through SAP Store, SAP will plant a tree.

About GoodTime

GoodTime helps people and companies drive better results from their most important meetings. The GoodTime Meeting Optimization Engine automates scheduling, ensures the right people are in the room, and provides actionable insights to meet smarter. Its flagship product, Hire, allows organizations to win top talent faster with Candidate Relationship Intelligence. Over 300 leading companies like Spotify, Slack, Pinterest, Okta, HubSpot, and Box have scheduled more than seven million smart meetings with GoodTime. Learn more at goodtime.io

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March 7, 2023, SAN FRANCISCO – After surveying 531 talent acquisition leaders across sectors for its 2023 Hiring Insights Report, today GoodTime released the report’s technology edition, featuring sector-specific insights. Based on responses from 103 talent acquisition (TA) leaders in tech, the report highlights the challenges tech hiring leaders face in a tenuous economy and explores changes companies are making to weather the storm. 

The high-level findings from the 2023 Hiring Insights Report, Technology Edition, include:

• Only 52% of hiring goals were met by tech hiring teams in 2022
• 34% of subjects reported mental health and wellness concerns as a top challenge last year
• A whopping 57% of subjects reported layoffs; 22% reported a reduction in force of 20% or more
• 46% of respondents will increase personalization in the hiring process in the coming year
• Over 40% of TA leaders look to improve hiring efficiency and automation through better tech recruiting software in 2023

Economy hit tech TA teams especially hard

The report paints a stark picture of challenges endured by tech TA leaders over the past twelve months, with 34% of respondents citing mental health concerns as a top challenge. Adapting to a remote interview process (30%) and resume-skill mismatch (28%) took second and third place as the biggest challenges faced. In today’s economy, TA leaders must manage company expectations with reductions in force while being empathetic to employee burnout and navigating an ever-changing remote or hybrid interview process. 

Efficiency and automation a top focus 

Looking ahead, hiring leaders know that efficiency and automation are needed to deliver against hiring goals with less budget and fewer people. Hiring hurdles anticipated over the next 12 months include candidates withdrawing from the hiring process (30%) and parental work-life balance (27%), as candidates are only too ready to drop out of an inefficient process that doesn’t fulfill their expectations. A slow-moving, impersonal process that leaves candidates guessing is no longer an option for TA teams in tech to remain competitive. 

“We feel the pain that the tech sector is facing in this hiring climate,” said Ahryun Moon, CEO of GoodTime. “TA teams must improve efficiency and automate while creating a more bespoke candidate experience that sticks with top talent. Understanding challenges and opportunities, both past and present, helps hiring leaders to understand how best to set themselves up for future success.”

To access the full report, visit here.

About GoodTime

GoodTime helps people and companies drive better results from their most important meetings. The GoodTime Meeting Optimization Engine automates scheduling, ensures the right people are in the room, and provides actionable insights to meet smarter. Its flagship product, Hire, allows organizations to win top talent faster with Candidate Relationship Intelligence. Over 300 leading companies like Spotify, Slack, Pinterest, Okta, HubSpot, and Box have scheduled over seven million smart meetings with GoodTime. Learn more at goodtime.io.

San Francisco, CA (FEBRUARY 21, 2023) In the face of economic disruption and competing hiring issues of layoffs and candidate shortages, the only constant is change in today’s workplace. GoodTime today published the 2023 Hiring Insights Report to identify key talent acquisition (TA) trends and understand the sentiment around the hiring climate to help TA leaders to adapt talent strategies and be successful in the next year and beyond.

GoodTime announced its findings from its annual Hiring Insights Report to gauge talent acquisition’s current and future landscape. GoodTime surveyed 531 talent acquisition leaders across the U.S. to hear about their most critical hiring challenges—and how they’re meeting the demands of candidates in a changed hiring landscape. 

The report highlights the challenges of hiring in an ever-changing economic and business climate, focusing on what companies are doing, not doing, or are planning to do to hit their hiring goals.

 The high-level findings from the GoodTime Hiring Insights Report include:

• On average, less than 50% of hiring goals were met in 2022
• 44% reported that an increase in recruitment team turnover impacted their ability to move candidates through the funnel quickly
• Over 70% surveyed said the time-to-hire increased in the past 12 months
• The biggest challenge hiring teams face in the year ahead is the limitations of their current hiring tech stack
• Improving efficiency and automation in the hiring process are the top two areas talent teams will prioritize in 2023

Companies far from hitting their hiring goals

It’s hard out there for HR and talent leaders. As employees resigned and layoffs commenced,  companies scrambled to backfill critical roles, hiring 274 new employees, on average, in 2022. According to the report, on average, respondents attained less than 50% of their hiring goals in 2022, two points worse than in 2021. To make matters even direr, 71% of talent leaders report that it is taking longer to fill an open position in 2022; up over 11 points from 60% last year. 

Automation and efficiency are crucial to scaling hiring

Across industries, the number one challenge companies anticipate in 2023 is the limits of their current hiring technology, cited by 27% of respondents. The top areas of improvement reported include improving overall efficiency (39%) and optimizing automation in the hiring process (37%), followed by increasing offer acceptance rates (35%). 

“With changes in hiring policies, candidate needs, and the economy, it’s no secret that the landscape continues to evolve quickly. Those who make automation and efficiency priorities stand a far greater chance of success, now and in the future,” said Ahryun Moon, CEO & Co-Founder, GoodTime. “Hiring leaders know that having a fast, responsive candidate experience is key to win top talent. The report findings clearly show that companies mired in outdated processes will continue to struggle to hit their goals, while others focus on efficiency and automation improvements in the year ahead.” 

Download the full 2023 Hiring Insights Report.

About GoodTime

GoodTime helps people and companies drive better results from their most important meetings. The GoodTime Meeting Optimization Engine automates scheduling, ensures the right people are in the room, and provides actionable insights to meet smarter. Its flagship product, Hire, allows organizations to win top talent faster with Candidate Relationship Intelligence. Over 300 leading companies like Spotify, Slack, Pinterest, Okta, HubSpot, and Box have scheduled more than seven million smart meetings with GoodTime.

San Francisco, CA (JANUARY 25, 2023) – GoodTime, the Meeting Optimization Engine that makes business meetings smarter, announces a new integration with Uber for Business, Uber’s enterprise arm, to help recruiting teams further automate the interview process and reduce time-to-hire while offering a perk-enhanced candidate experience. This is a first-of-its-kind integration for Uber for Business in the HR and recruiting industries, creating an elevated experience for candidates and a true innovation for hiring teams. 

The last year has amplified the importance of attracting and retaining employees. As the labor market shifts, companies are paying even closer attention to hiring the right person for the right role, which is critical when navigating a challenging economic environment. With demand for hiring efficiency increasing, there’s a renewed focus on technology to help streamline processes and improve the candidate experience, onsite and remote.  

The GoodTime and Uber for Business integration lets companies include vouchers for rides and meals with Uber to prospective hires directly in their interview calendar invites. For onsite interviews, teams can offer vouchers for rides with Uber to get them to the office, enhancing the candidate experience. For remote interviews, candidates can enjoy vouchers for meal deliveries with Uber Eats for a “lunch on the company.” 

“The collaboration between GoodTime and Uber for Business is a win-win for talent leaders,” said Don Darrah, Head of Partnerships at GoodTime. “Thanks to the integration with vouchers from Uber for Business, candidates get a world-class experience before the interview process even begins, allowing hiring teams to focus on landing top talent.” 

“Going the extra mile to offer vouchers for rides and meals shows candidates you care about their experience holistically,” said Susan Anderson, Global Head of Uber for Business. “Demonstrating a people-first approach from the start helps to differentiate your company from the competition.” 

The Uber for Business integration can be leveraged directly in GoodTime to help recruiting coordinators offer candidates vouchers from Uber for Business. GoodTime automatically adds vouchers to email invitations so that candidates have everything they need in one spot. This seamless, integrated experience can improve candidate engagement and provides a best-in-class experience from the very first touchpoint.

“The fastest hiring team offering the best experience typically gets the best candidates. For the first time in HR tech, GoodTime and Uber for Business offer that,” said Ahryun Moon, co-founder and Head of Company Strategy for GoodTime. 

To learn more about GoodTime and get a demo of the Uber for Business integration, visit goodtime.io.

About GoodTime

GoodTime helps people and companies drive better results from their most important meetings. The GoodTime Meeting Optimization Engine automates scheduling, ensures the right people are in the room, and provides actionable insights to meet smarter. Its flagship product, Hire, allows organizations to win top talent faster with Candidate Relationship Intelligence while reducing time-to-hire by up to 50%. Over 300 leading companies like Spotify, Slack, Pinterest, Okta, HubSpot, and Box have scheduled more than seven million smart meetings with GoodTime. Learn more at goodtime.io.

San Francisco, CA (NOVEMBER 17, 2022) GoodTime, the world’s first Meeting Optimization Engine that makes meetings smarter, today announced it ranked #329 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech companies in North America, now in its 28^th year. GoodTime grew 423% during this period.

GoodTime’s co-founder and CEO, Ahryun Moon, credits the push for automation and process efficiency in work tech with the company’s 423% revenue growth.

“Technology focused on efficiency improvements throughout the hiring process are more important than ever as the business world traverses the unwieldy economic landscape,” said Ahryun Moon, CEO of GoodTime. “Once talent teams experience GoodTime’s Meeting Optimization Engine, and its impact on helping companies scale through tech, its value becomes obvious. GoodTime Hire is a fundamental requirement for talent teams looking to do more with less while remaining laser-focused on the candidate relationship.”

“As the past year has shown us, innovation in important areas such as life sciences is critical to addressing infectious disease and other global health issues,” said Paul Silverglate, vice chair, Deloitte LLP and U.S. technology sector leader. “In addition, technology must keep pace with ever-changing consumer and corporate demands for faster, safer and more efficient solutions to new societal challenges. Each year I am in awe of the immense talent the Technology Fast 500 rankings reveal, confirming the winners’ relentless pursuit of creativity and their ability to solve real-world problems that benefit us all.”

“This year’s Technology Fast 500 list is a true reflection of some of today’s most determined and inspiring pioneers who have prospered by anticipating what’s next, understanding what’s needed to succeed and driving creativity forward,” said Christie Simons, partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP and industry leader for technology, media and telecommunications within Deloitte’s audit and assurance practice. “Representing all facets of technology, the winners have shown they not only have the vision but can also expertly manage their companies through rapid growth. We congratulate each winner on their impressive achievements.”

About the 2022 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™
Now in its 28^th year, the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 provides a ranking of the fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech companies — both public and private — in North America. Technology Fast 500 award winners are selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2018 to 2021.

In order to be eligible for Technology Fast 500 recognition, companies must own proprietary intellectual property or technology that is sold to customers in products that contribute to a majority of the company’s operating revenues. Companies must have base-year operating revenues of at least US$50,000, and current-year operating revenues of at least US$5 million. Additionally, companies must be in business for a minimum of four years and be headquartered within North America.

About GoodTime
GoodTime helps people and companies drive better results from their most important meetings. The GoodTime Meeting Optimization Engine automates scheduling, ensures the right people are in the room, and provides actionable insights to meet smarter. Its flagship product, Hire, allows organizations to win top talent faster with Candidate Relationship Intelligence. Over 300 leading companies like Spotify, Slack, Pinterest, Okta, HubSpot, and Box have scheduled more than 7 million smart meetings with GoodTime. Learn more at goodtime.io.

About Deloitte
Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee (“DTTL”), its network of member firms, and their related entities. DTTL and each of its member firms are legally separate and independent entities. DTTL (also referred to as “Deloitte Global”) does not provide services to clients. In the United States, Deloitte refers to one or more of the US member firms of DTTL, their related entities that operate using the “Deloitte” name in the United States and their respective affiliates. Certain services may not be available to attest clients under the rules and regulations of public accounting. Please see www.deloitte.com/about to learn more about our global network of member firms.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, GoodTime, the world’s first Meeting Optimization Engine, announced a new feature for its flagship product, Hire, called Flexible Scheduling. The first of its kind, Flexible Scheduling thinks like a recruiter and optimizes complex interviews across multiple days, ending the need for a full day of interviewing. It also works across teams, tools, and time zones, getting interviewers and candidates connected quickly and smoothly, taking into account nuanced schedule variables like blocked time and meeting priority.

The Challenge with Scheduling Candidate Interviews

One of the most common challenges is working across multiple teams with frequent delays in scheduling candidate interviews. Delays create a butterfly effect for interviewers, candidates, and hiring teams, all trying to achieve one goal, filling a role. According to HR Dive, it takes about 60 days to fill a non-managerial professional role. As part of finding the perfect candidate, interviews are vital in building “candidate relationships” that carry over as positive employee relationships.

In the GoodTime Hiring Insights Report, 46% of respondents said creating meaningful relationships with candidates is more important now than ever. Best practices in the hiring space dictate that companies offering flexibility in scheduling can also be a good demonstration of the company’s culture, mission, and values during the interview process.

How GoodTime’s Flexible Scheduling Works

At its core, GoodTime’s Flexible Scheduling delivers intelligence that moves from simple to sophisticated. It considers dozens of variables across multiple days and considers options nuanced and intelligently. It’s like having another talented recruiting coordinator who finds hidden opportunities to get in front of candidates faster with the right team at the right time.

Flexible Scheduling can complete a two-hour task in seconds, so recruiting coordinators can now easily organize complex interview panels and manage them to completion. With automatic substitutions, rescheduling, reminders, agendas, and all related logistics and communications handled seamlessly; teams are able to stay on the same page without all the back and forth. . This new level of automation intelligence eliminates up to 70% of the time needed to schedule and manage the entire interview process while providing candidates and the interview team with the ultimate scheduling efficiency.

Benefits of GoodTime’s Flexible Scheduling include:

• Built For Speed: Sort hundreds of scheduling possibilities in seconds. Review the top choices while Hire surfaces additional options in the background.
• Intelligent Automation: Selecting the first open calendar space is not intelligent automation. Flexible Scheduling assesses existing commitments, conflicts, load, working hours, time zones, and more to find the best fit for your team and candidates.
• Schedule Without Compromise: A truly flexible interview scheduling solution, purpose-built for today’s dynamic interview experience. Meet onsite, remotely, or a combination of both. Consider interviews over one or more days. Dictate meeting order, or let Hire select the best available options.
• Interviewer Selection: Build and manage advanced panels by including interviewers with logic that provide instant selections and substitutions based on availability, skillset, training level, load, and more.

“We take pride in team collaboration and diverse perspectives; that’s why our team has worked in cooperation with talent acquisition leaders to create Flexible Scheduling, which features an enhanced algorithm so that no one misses on an opportunity or a great candidate. Scheduling should be anything but overwhelming, and in your total control, personalized how you see fit,” said Ahryun Moon, GoodTime co-founder and Head of Company Strategy.

About GoodTime
GoodTime helps people and companies drive better results from their most important meetings. The GoodTime Meeting Optimization Engine automates scheduling, ensures the right people are in the room, and provides actionable insights to meet smarter. Its flagship product, Hire, allows organizations to win top talent faster with Candidate Relationship Intelligence. Over 300 leading companies like Spotify, Slack, Pinterest, Okta, HubSpot, and Box have scheduled more than seven million smart meetings with GoodTime. Learn more at goodtime.io.