Reset how you hire this winter

Welcome to The Great Recruiter Reset.

Zoho Recruit brings a system-wide refresh that rethinks how you source, review, collaborate, and manage your pipeline. This release clears clutter so you can focus on what matters most: recruiting the right talent faster.

Grab something warm, and let’s walk through what’s new and what’s better.

Highlights of the great recruiter reset

AI transcript for recorded interviews
Resume harvester with a new UI and a powerful new source booster: CV-Library
Cooling-off period to pause reapplications
Detailed view and timely notifications for vendor alignment
Storage management for complete visibility
AI assist for clearer notes in seconds

A quick, simple, and insanely productive way to hire.

Sourcing

A unified UI with a new source booster

Resume harvester’s new UI pulls all your sourcing channels into one unified view. With the new toggle right beside every job opening, you can launch it instantly. The role details are prefilled, and you can start pulling candidates within seconds. Urgent roles can be acted on without delays.

Moreover, speaking of pulling candidates, meet our new source booster: CV-Library. Access one of the UK’s largest talent pools with over 18 million candidates, right inside Zoho Recruit. Filter by role requirements, unlock shortlisted profiles, and move top matches straight into your pipeline.

Assessments

Create assessments in a click

As a recruiter, you’re often hiring for roles outside your own expertise. You’re switching tabs, skimming articles, and chasing hiring managers for clarity, all while the best candidates move on to faster teams.

Reset how you evaluate skills, with AI-powered assessment generation built right inside Zoho Recruit. Try AI assessments.

Interviews

Turn hours of interviews into minutes

Two-thirds of a recruiter’s time goes into interviews. Rewatching them only adds more hours, more strain, and more clutter. Transcript and AI summary resets the way you handle interviews.

Every recorded interview is transformed into a clean, structured transcript with a quick summary you can read in minutes. See key points at a glance, jump to highlighted sections, search for details instantly, and share transcripts with your team for consistent, effortless collaboration.

Zoho Recruit has an exciting lineup of additional updates coming soon. It’s interview clarity, reset for speed.

Candidates

Detailed candidate summaries in seconds

It's a super busy day. You open a resume among a hundred others. It’s five pages long, cluttered, and the formatting is messy. With the Profile Summary, powered by Zia, Zoho Recruit's AI Assistant, you can capture subtle insights and important details to present them in a clear, structured, and widely recognized format.

Profile Summary resets resume reading into insights. It is also available in six languages! Try profile summary in different languages.

Hit pause on repeated applicants

There is always that one candidate who keeps applying to every role in your company without even reading the JD. And some candidates return long after the role has moved on. One repeat application is manageable, but dozens can bury your pipeline and pull focus away from timely decisions.

Cooling-off period change that. Set how long a candidate must wait before they can reapply or be referred again, whether through vendors, employee referrals, or your career site.

Cooling-off period brings quiet clarity back into your hiring.

Vendors

Notifications that keep vendors aligned

Changes in roles or candidate status are a never-ending story. With vendors in the mix, that story can turn into a hassle. In the ocean of daily tasks, missing a vendor update can slow down your entire time to hire.

Vendor Portal Notifications change that. Vendors now get instant notifications the moment something updates inside Zoho Recruit—from new openings to candidate decisions. No delays. No blind spots. No chasing anyone for follow-ups.

A hiring reset built for speed, driven by clarity.

Details that power faster decisions

You can’t hire with half a picture. But too often, the details you need are scattered, incomplete, or hidden between submissions. Decisions slow, making you lose both time and cost.

The new detailed view resets the vendor portal to bring back more clarity. Vendors now see every piece of candidate information such as skills, experience, contact details, and submission history, all in one place. They can spot what's missing before it ever reaches you. This eliminates the constant back and forth and keeps submissions complete from the start.

Your hiring stays sharp, focused, and moving the way it should.

And a lot more

Catch the storage surge

When using an ATS, you hardly think about storage until everything comes to a hard stop. With high-volume sourcing, interviewing, and collaborating, storage becomes the hidden bottleneck. And when it maxes out, hiring grinds to a halt.

We have reset how you manage storage with record storage for better visibility and control in Zoho Recruit. See your total usage at a glance, track breakdowns by module or user, and expand capacity before it becomes a problem. Say goodbye to guessing where your storage went.

Storage clarity that keeps your hiring reset moving without interruptions.

Actionable notes in seconds

Notes carry everything recruiters rely on: client requirements, phone-screen impressions, interview takeaways, red flags, salary expectations, and the details that can make or break a hire. But writing clear notes takes time you rarely have.

Most notes end up looking like “manager wants cloud exp??” and when someone else reads them, the meaning gets lost.

Zia AI Assist for notes fixes that. Type your quick bullets, click AI Assist, and instantly get a clean, structured note you and your team can trust later. A reset built straight into your workflow. We also have an exciting lineup of updates coming soon for notes.