AI enhanced human-centric hiring, solving your Glassdoor problem, and crafting an EVP

Welcome to the 16th edition of Ashby Talent Digest, a community newsletter surfacing recruiting insights, podcasts, events, and more from across the web.

Insights Corner

AI is rapidly changing how teams hire. But the use of AI raises an important question: How do you improve efficiency without negatively impacting candidate experience? In partnership with our friends at CodeSignal , we’ve developed a guide to using AI thoughtfully in your hiring process. It’s packed with practical strategies, real-world examples, and insights to help teams strike the right balance between automation and human-centric hiring. Download the guide.?

Transform

Attending Transform this year??

Here’s how you can find us:

• Stop by our booth: We will have a couple of demo stations ready with product experts and some fun Ashby swag for you to take home.

• Join us for a TA breakfast or happy hour: Network with industry peers and enjoy great conversations over food & drinks.

• Schedule time with us: We’ll find a way to meet up!

Looking forward to connecting!

New on Ashby

We now support candidates updating their availability using their candidate availability link after an interview is scheduled or has completed.

This update allows interview Organizers to get updated availability from candidates so they can reschedule interviews without canceling the existing interview. Once availability has been resubmitted, this will be logged on the candidate profile.

Check out our re-designed Ashby Product Updates page created to give you a curated feed of everything that’s new with the platform!

Other noteworthy additions:

• Copy AI-generated feedback?
• Candidate location support for hiring events and sourcing forms
• Create offer tokens from opening custom fields
• Detailed data for calendar events

ICYMI Webinars

Creating AI Usage Guidelines for Candidates

In our recent webinar with Anna Hall and Jamie Cosgrove , we took a closer look at how companies can set clear, fair AI guidelines for candidates. The conversation focused on what to consider before establishing policies, who should be part of that discussion, and practical ways to ensure fairness in hiring from both the candidate and employer perspective.

Watch the replay

Recent Guests on the Offer Accepted Podcast

The Offer Accepted podcast brings together top talent and hiring leaders to explore key strategies in recruiting and talent acquisition. Our most recent guests include:

• Jan Tegze , Director of Talent Acquisition and Author, unpacks why AI proficiency is no longer optional for recruiters. From learning prompt engineering to strategically testing AI tools, Jan shares how talent teams can upskill in AI while maintaining the human elements of recruiting that automation can’t replace.
• Cara Brennan Allamano , Co-founder of PeopleTech Partners + former Chief People Officer at Lattice , explains why a strong Employer Value Proposition (EVP) is the foundation of successful hiring. From identifying what makes employees stay to securing stakeholder alignment, Cara shares actionable strategies for building an EVP that’s authentic, scalable, and designed to attract the right talent.

Short on time to listen? Check out the key insights in the episode notes on our blog!?

Up next? Anna Hall , Senior GTM recruiter Ashby !

Recruiting Takes from Around the Web

• A Step-by-Step Guide to Solving Your Glassdoor Problem: The People People Group knows that managing Glassdoor reviews is essential for attracting top talent. They've created a step-by-step guide to help you analyze feedback, take action, and strengthen your employer brand.
• State of Global Hiring Report: As global hiring evolves, Deel 's latest report uncovers key trends, from rising salaries and Gen Z hiring priorities to a growing shift toward domestic talent.
• The Retention Advantage: Harvard Business Review highlights how promoting employees during employer-friendly labor markets helps talent and hiring professionals reduce turnover when competition for talent heats up, creating a more stable and resilient workforce.

Partnership Updates

Our Partnerships team continues extending our integration functionality. There are now 160+ integrations in the Integrations Marketplace, and the list is growing weekly! Here are the ones we’ve added since our last update:

• Ironclad [eSignature] - Ironclad is a leading contract lifecycle management platform for innovative companies, powering billions of contracts every year. Ashby’s integration with Ironclad is the first to market in the HR and recruitment space, and helps teams move faster by streamlining their contract workflows.
• TalentSight Inc. [Sourcing] - Integrating TalentSight with Ashby streamlines your recruitment process by enabling seamless data flow between your sourcing and applicant tracking systems. This integration allows you to import job listings from Ashby into TalentSight and export and check the existence of candidate profiles from TalentSight to Ashby, ensuring efficient synchronization between the two platforms.
• CodeSubmit [Assessments] - CodeSubmit creates real-world coding interviews for every hiring process. Identify great candidates using real tasks, not brainteasers and get an accurate measure of a candidate’s ability.
• CandorIQ [Other] - CandorIQ’s integration received an update and is now bidirectional: Located in the Headcount Approval workflow, when a headcount or backfill is approved in CandorIQ, this integration will automatically create offers.
• HRCloud [Post-Hire] - The HR Cloud integration with Ashby streamlines the employee onboarding process by automatically transferring newly hired candidates from Ashby’s ATS into HR Cloud.
• Alva Labs [Assessments] - Keep all your candidates’ data points centralised for simple and automated recruitment. By integrating Alva with Ashby, recruitment teams can access science-backed insights to support data-driven decision-making and enhance the candidate experience.
• TrueUp [Sourcing] - TrueUp built an AI agent that lets you recruit from TrueUp's community of the world's best tech talent. The integration allows TrueUp Talent users to push applicants sourced on TrueUp to Ashby.
• Coferral [Sourcing] - Coferral is a marketplace for referral-based hiring, backed by social proof. They quickly deliver top-tier referrals—qualified, interested, and highly recommended by colleagues.

Check out Ashby University and Ashby Release Notes for more information about these features, and reach out to [email protected] with any questions and feedback.?

Ashby Customers Hiring for People Ops/Recruiting Roles

Looking for a new role? Here are open jobs hosted on Ashby that are live as of this newsletter release:

• Technical Recruiter at Capi Money (London, UK)
• Recruiter at Sierra (San Francisco, CA, USA)
• Head of Talent at 11x (San Francisco, CA, USA)
• Head of People at Suno (Boston, MA, USA)
• Talent EMEA at Anima (UK - Remote)
• Head of Talent at Luminai (San Mateo, CA, USA)
• Head of Talent Acquisition at Empirical LLC (LATAM - Remote)
• Founding Recruiter at Pocus (San Francisco, CA or New York, NY; USA)
• Talent Acquisition Sourcer at Satispay (Milan, Italy)