The latest product updates, improvements, and bug fixes.
2026
ATS Integrations & Faster Screening
New: Expanded ATS coverage — candidate applications now flow into Outhire from additional ATS partners via webhooks, with verification and import status handled out of the box.
Improved: Phone screens now turn around faster, with infrastructure changes that improve throughput on high-volume screening days.
Improved: Reliability across third-party ATS import flows.
Landing Page Metrics & Polish
Improved: Landing page and career site metrics reporting.
Improved: Reliability across the page editor and metrics pipeline.
Settings Reliability
Improved: Reliability of account and workspace settings.
Joel Stability Pass
Improved: Joel's handling of attachments, skill application, and candidate assessment depth.
Improved: Reliability across resume uploads, candidate lead tables, inbound email, and job upload permissions.
Improved: Resume and image editing assets are now served in-app, reducing dependency on third-party infrastructure.
Smarter ATS Import & Sourcing Hardening
New: ATS import modals now support pagination, search, status filters, and import-status badges — making it dramatically easier to find and import the right candidates from larger external accounts.
Improved: Phone screen AI-detection infrastructure moved to a more scalable backend, improving throughput on high-volume screening days.
Improved: Reliability across sourcing data handling, Joel resume uploads, and email delivery.
Recruiter Performance in Reporting
New: Reports now include recruiter-level stats, giving teams visibility into individual recruiter performance alongside pipeline and screening metrics.
Improved: Joel gained additional context awareness, helping it ground answers and actions in more of your recruiting data.
Improved: Reporting on mixed pipelines.
Screening Modal Cleanup
Improved: Screening configuration modals were redesigned with clearer iconography, unsaved-changes prompts, and tighter candidate UX across phone screen setup.
Improved: Reliability across candidate archiving and lead views.
Improved: Joel's underlying skill framework gained evaluation tooling, improving consistency of recruiting actions over time.
Kanban Board, Smarter Pickers & Resume Reupload
New: A Kanban view for candidates is now available, providing a drag-and-drop pipeline alongside existing table views.
New: Resume reupload is now exposed on candidates that already have a resume on file — recruiters can swap in an updated CV without leaving the profile.
Improved: Job and candidate pickers across leads and candidate workflows were redesigned for faster selection, with a clearer loading state on candidate views.
Joel UX Refinements & Kanban Foundations
Improved: Joel's chat experience gained follow-up suggestion pills and a series of UX refinements that make multi-step recruiting workflows feel smoother.
Improved: Reliability across candidate stage webhooks and downstream integrations.
Improved: Behind-the-scenes cleanup of legacy candidate code sets the stage for the new Kanban candidate board.
Public Candidate API & Sharper Assessment Scoring
New: A public Candidate API is now available, letting teams programmatically read and manage candidate data, with API key management aligned to the existing webhooks settings layout.
Improved: AI-detection scoring in candidate assessment is more accurate and consistent across phone screen reviews.
Improved: Landing page rendering and multi-tenant access controls.
Saved Candidate Views & Screening Scores in Chat
New: Saved candidate views let recruiters save a specific mix of filters, columns, sort order, and table state, then return to it in one click.
Improved: Joel now surfaces screening score evaluation directly in chat, making it easier to compare candidate quality without leaving the conversation.
Improved: Screening workflows now handle empty states, reminder visibility, interview links, and requirements generation more clearly, reducing manual follow-up and confusion.
Application Source Tracking
New: Application source tracking gives teams clearer visibility into where candidates originated.
Improved: Landing page presentation, sourcing enrichment, and candidate-processing reliability all received another quality pass.
Fixed: Candidate data sent to external systems is more reliable and includes stronger delivery handling.
Agentic Joel, Outbound Webhooks & Sourcing Panel
Improved: The updated agentic Joel beta became the main Joel experience, bringing better sourcing previews, deeper candidate context, richer shortlist workflows, and cleaner resume handling.
New: Outbound application webhooks let customers subscribe to candidate application events and manage those endpoints in settings.
New: Joel gained a dedicated sourcing side panel, making it easier to review results, compare candidates, and move from chat to action.
Report Exports & Performance Improvements
New: Reports became easier to export and share, with better print layouts and cleaner output.
Improved: Candidate views became faster and more responsive, especially in heavier recruiting workflows.
Improved: Joel's shortlist and result handling became more useful for sourcing and review.
Fixed: Duplicate-prevention and screening scoring became more consistent across the candidate journey.
Advanced Reporting Experience
New: Outhire introduced a much more capable reporting experience with saved reports, configurable widgets, and reusable report layouts.
New: Teams can now track screening performance, pipeline effectiveness, career site performance, and landing page performance in one reporting workspace.
Improved: Reporting became more useful for both operational review and leadership visibility.
Joel Data Access & Keyboard Navigation
New: Joel gained richer recruiting data access, including resume viewing and more detailed candidate context.
Improved: Candidate workflows became faster to navigate with keyboard-friendly interactions and smoother movement through review flows.
Improved: Landing page editing controls became more polished and reliable.
Agentic Joel with Conversation History
Improved: The updated agentic Joel gained conversation history, candidate notes, job description support, broader search, and safer approvals for actions that change recruiting data.
New: Joel became more useful as a day-to-day recruiting workspace rather than just a question-answering tool.
Screening Rubrics & Templates
New: Screening rubrics and reusable templates gave teams a structured way to define what "good" looks like for phone screens.
New: Rubric scoring now appears in phone screen analysis, helping teams assess candidates with more consistency.
Improved: Screening setup became easier to configure and maintain.
Agentic Joel Beta
New: An updated agentic version of Joel entered beta, with a redesigned chat experience, candidate and job lookup, pipeline actions, resume uploads, and stronger sourcing support.
Improved: Joel became more capable at handling multi-step recruiting workflows inside a single conversation.
2025
33 updates
Sourcing & Communication Reliability
Improved: Sourcing and recruiter communication flows became more reliable, especially around event handling and follow-up activity.
Sourcing & Document Access Improvements
Improved: Sourcing tables, candidate processing, and candidate document access became smoother and less error-prone.
Fixed: Several day-to-day recruiter workflow interruptions were resolved.
AI Screening & Joel Email Workflows
New: AI-assisted screening became more capable, with stronger evaluation of resumes and screening responses.
New: Joel expanded into email-related workflows.
Improved: Sourcing got a major refresh, making discovery and follow-up feel more connected.
Blank Landing Pages & Screening Evaluation
New: Blank landing page creation made it easier to start from scratch instead of editing a preset layout.
Improved: Landing pages became easier to write and structure, especially for longer-form content.
Improved: Screening evaluation became more structured and easier to review.
Custom Screening Emails
New: Teams can now customize phone screening email messaging.
Improved: Candidate processing and phone-screen lifecycle handling became more reliable, including expiry behavior.
Knowledge Base & FAQ Improvements
New: FAQs evolved into a more useful knowledge experience with better organization and previews for AI-driven responses.
Fixed: Landing page media issues that affected presentation quality.
Configurable Candidate Views
New: Configurable candidate views gave teams more control over how they review candidates.
Improved: Deduplication, filter persistence, and screening support in ATS-connected workflows.
Resume Processing & Bulk Uploads
Improved: Resume processing, bulk uploads, screening reports, and candidate application workflows all became more reliable.
Improved: Joel interviews became more flexible and customizable.
Refreshed Screening Experience
New: A refreshed screening experience improved the UI for reviewing and managing candidate screening.
Interview Retrieval & Cleanup
New: Interview retrieval and cleanup support improved visibility into completed screening activity.
Improved: Phone screening activity tracking.
Screening Report Improvements
Improved: Interview and phone screening reports became clearer and easier to review.
AI Resume Screening
New: AI resume screening added a faster way to assess incoming candidates.
Improved: Landing page generation became more reliable and more polished.
LiveHire Integration
New: LiveHire integration expanded the ways customers can connect external applicant flows into Outhire.
Improved: Event reliability for connected workflows.
Candidate Ratings
New: Candidate ratings gave recruiters another way to capture and compare candidate quality.
Improved: The candidate workspace was reorganized with better tabs, file handling, and email reliability.
Bulk Candidate Upload & Joel File Handling
New: Bulk candidate upload made it easier to bring large candidate sets into Outhire.
New: Joel gained file handling support, helping recruiters work more directly with uploaded material.
Improved: Screening reports, webhook reliability, and phone-screen usage visibility.
Job Description Generation Improvements
Improved: Joel-assisted job description generation became more reliable and easier to use.
Fixed: Landing page media sizing issues.
Resume Lead Capture
New: Resume lead capture made it easier to collect candidate interest directly from entry points in the product.
Improved: Joel reliability.
Job Description Generation with Company Context
New: Job description generation gained better company context, helping teams create more on-brand and role-specific content.
Improved: Joel prompts and error handling.
New: Raw video download support for teams using video-based recruiting content.
Phone Screening Reliability
Improved: Joel's phone screening call experience became more reliable and more consistent.
Landing Page Submissions
New: Landing page submission support enabled direct candidate capture from published pages.
Fit Analysis & Stage-Triggered Screening
New: Fit analysis, phone-screen status tracking, and stage-triggered screening prompts added more structure to candidate progression.
Improved: Candidate view state persistence reduced repetitive setup for recruiters moving through candidates.
Improved: Joel sourcing cleanup and recruiter email automation support.
Joel Email Workflows
New: Joel expanded into recruiter email workflows.
Improved: Approval handling for Joel actions.
Joel Agent & Streaming Improvements
Improved: Joel agent selection, candidate contact handling, streaming reliability, and phone callback behavior.
Phone Number Support & Content Planning
New: Better phone number support across jobs and landing pages.
Improved: Content planning workflows and Joel screening analysis.
Joel Screening Plans & Lead Creation
New: Joel gained screening-plan initiation and lead creation capabilities.
Improved: Onboarding and account setup flows.
Email/Password Login & Candidate Messaging
New: Full email/password login, forgot/reset password flows, and candidate messaging.
Improved: Navigation speed and overall account access experience.
Chat History & Mobile Responsiveness
New: Chat history and stronger chat-state handling.
Improved: Mobile responsiveness and Joel's early workflow structure.
Joel Interface & Signup Improvements
Improved: Joel's interface and recruiting workflow support continued to expand.
Improved: Signup and form protection.
2024
31 updates
Audio Processing & Landing Page Links
New: More audio-processing controls for content and recording workflows tied to recruiting content.
Improved: Landing page links, layout behavior, and editor reliability.
Rich Media Support for Landing Pages
New: Landing pages gained richer media support, including more flexible visual content handling.
Improved: Page generation and editing became more consistent.
Generative Landing Page Creation
New: A more generative landing page creation experience made it easier to produce recruiting pages faster.
Fixed: Several core product stability issues affecting day-to-day usage.
Landing Page Editing Improvements
Improved: Landing page editing and generation behavior.
Fixed: Cover image handling.
Navigation, Search & Cover Images
Improved: Core navigation, search, and profile presentation.
New: Cover image components for landing pages.
Video Capture on Landing Pages
New: Landing pages gained built-in video capture support, expanding how teams can collect richer candidate submissions.
Improved: Brand setup for pages.
YouTube & External Links on Pages
New: Pages added support for YouTube and external links.
Improved: Resume viewing performance.
Video Ratio Support
New: Ratio support for video requests improved flexibility when collecting candidate content.
Landing Page Chatbot
New: Landing pages gained chatbot support, making it easier to answer candidate questions directly on the page.
Improved: Chat logging and transcript-to-candidate flows.
Fixed: Candidate activity and job-question workflows.
Company-Aware Chat
New: Chat expanded with answer views and company-aware chat context.
Improved: Authentication and loading behavior for chat-driven workflows.
Resume Parsing in Chat
New: Resume parsing in chat helped turn uploaded candidate information into usable recruiting context more quickly.
Custom Pipeline Stages & Rich Text Editing
New: Custom pipeline stages let teams tailor their candidate process instead of relying on a fixed workflow.
New: Rich text editing in page workflows expanded content flexibility.
Improved: Resume parsing and upload handling.
Fast Candidate Navigation & AI Recruiter
New: Recruiters could move through candidates more quickly with fast candidate navigation, kanban lead creation, and application notes.
New: The first AI recruiter experience appeared in product.
Improved: Candidate workflow polish across review screens.
Kanban View & CSV Import
New: Kanban view for leads introduced a more visual recruiting workflow.
New: Candidate data in board view made pipeline review more actionable.
New: CSV import improved how teams could bring candidate data into Outhire.
Lead-Capture Forms & Source Tracking
New: Lead-capture forms expanded how teams collect candidate interest from landing pages and recruiting flows.
New: Source tracking in leads improved attribution for incoming candidates.
CSV Export & Media Handling
New: CSV export for reports made recruiting and landing-page data easier to share outside the platform.
Improved: Landing page media handling and video processing visibility.
Story Posts & Realtime Progress
New: Story-post views and realtime progress tracking improved visibility into published content workflows.
Improved: Page form flexibility and admin publishing workflows.
Landing Page Autosave & Layout Controls
New: Landing page autosave reduced the risk of losing edits while building pages.
New: More layout controls, including logo alignment options, improved page customization.
Improved: Filtering and day-to-day page workflows.
Department Support
New: Department support across jobs and profiles gave teams more structure for organizing recruiting activity.
Improved: Realtime updates for processing workflows and employer-brand scorecards.
Department Settings & Onboarding
New: Department support in settings and jobs.
Improved: Onboarding and content request workflows.
Landing Page Analytics & Magic Cuts
New: Landing page analytics gave teams a clearer way to measure page performance.
New: Automatic transcript-based cuts and "magic cuts" improved video editing speed for recruiting content.
Candidate Table Export & Video Recording
New: Candidate-table export made recruiter data easier to share and analyze outside Outhire.
New: Video recording without a request expanded how teams could capture content.
Landscape Stories & Quote Generation
New: Landscape story support, watermark controls, and quote generation from uploaded videos improved recruiting content workflows.
Improved: Editor snapping and landing-page filtering in lead views.
Jobs on Landing Pages
New: Jobs on landing pages improved the connection between employer brand content and open roles.
New: Company context settings helped produce more consistent recruiting content.
Improved: Brand support across pages and assets.
Page Management Improvements
Improved: Page management and contributor workflows became easier to control and organize.
Animation Controls & Brand Colors
New: Animation controls and broader brand color support improved the quality of recruiting content creation.
Improved: Story sharing and publishing reliability.
Employer Brand Scorecards
New: Employer-brand scorecards and scorecard emails gave teams a structured way to review their recruiting content and brand presence.
Improved: Timeline editing, asset management, and rendering support.
Filtering, Tags & Drag-and-Drop
New: Richer filtering, editable prompts and tags, drag-and-drop reordering, and archiving improved day-to-day content and page management.
Improved: Brand and asset management.
Story Post Generation & Team Management
New: Story-post generation and publishing expanded recruiting content workflows.
New: Team deactivation/reactivation and transcript-based tag extraction improved admin control and organization.
Prompt Templates & Content Calendar
New: Prompt templates, static-image story generation, content calendar support, and ownership-transfer tools.
Improved: Publishing workflows.
Expanded Media & Video Editing
New: Expanded media and video editing with color, size, positioning, image uploads, border styling, job filtering, and talent release document generation.