Interview management release notes

  • Release version: Zurich
  • Updated July 31, 2025
  • 4 minutes to read
  • The ServiceNow® Interview management application streamlines the interview setup and scheduling process by minimizing manual tasks and improving efficiency. Interview management is a new application in the Zurich release.

    Interview management highlights for the Zurich release

    Zurich Patch 10
    • Substitute yourself in interviews to eliminate the time and effort of offline coordination.
    • Track interview health and take timely actions from a unified interview health tracker.
    Zurich Patch 1
    • Save time by using structured workflows to schedule and manage interviews.
    • Configure interview phases and use them to schedule interviews in a more organized and planned manner, minimizing manual effort and inconsistency.
    • Schedule interviews using workflows that support both self-scheduling and direct scheduling options. Consider multiple data sources, including calendar availability and declared scheduling preferences, to minimize rescheduling and eliminate off-platform coordination. Monitor interview health centrally to manage all interviews efficiently, with built-in reminders and notifications keeping everyone informed.
    • Manage interviews by updating statuses, viewing or providing feedback, sending reminders, and rescheduling, completing, or canceling interviews as needed.
    • Streamline feedback sharing and tracking, enabling hiring managers to effectively compare applications.

    See Recruitment workspace for more information.

    Important:
    Interview management is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes.

    Interview management features

    Zurich Patch 10
    Substitute yourself as an interviewer
    Substitute yourself in interviews when you cannot attend it, to eliminate the time and effort of offline coordination. Initiate the substitution directly from the calendar invite or the application record page in Employee Center.
    Tracking interview health
    Proactively monitor interview health, identify issues, and prioritize resolutions. A configurable, extensible framework is used to define scenarios that help identify items that needs recruiters' attention on an interview record.
    Zurich Patch 1
    Define your interview setup

    Configure interview phases with custom names, durations, and other key parameters, and then use them to efficiently schedule interviews, enhancing transparency and saving time.

    Request applicant to share scheduling preferences

    Request applicants on a job requisition to share their scheduling preferences to plan a seamless interview process.

    Request interviewer to share scheduling preferences

    Request interviewers on a job requisition to share their scheduling preferences to plan a seamless interview process.

    Share scheduling preferences
    As an interviewer, when requested by recruiters, share your scheduling preferences to help them schedule interviews accordingly.
    View applicant's scheduling preferences

    View the scheduling preferences shared by applicants to schedule interviews accordingly.

    View interviewer's scheduling preferences

    View the scheduling preferences shared by interviewers and schedule interviews accordingly.

    Schedule an interview
    Schedule interview with applicants on a job requisition to get started with the interview journey.
    Manage interviews as a recruiter
    As a recruiter or recruitment coordinator, manage interviews for a job requisition as needed. You can update the interview status, view feedback, send reminders, complete or cancel interviews, and more.
    Manage interviews as an interviewer
    As an interviewer, view the details of all the interviews that you’re a part of and manage them as required.
    Provide interview feedback as a recruiter
    As a recruiter or recruitment coordinator, provide feedback for interviews that you're a part of.
    Provide interview feedback as an interviewer or hiring manager
    As an interviewer or hiring manager, provide timely and constructive feedback on the interviews in which you participate, to support application comparison and well-informed hiring decisions.

    Changed in this release

    Zurich Patch 10
    Schedule an interview
    Schedule interviews more efficiently with auto-populated template variables that reduce manual email editing.
    Manage interviews
    Track applicants' responses to interview invites on interviews records directly.

    Activation information

    Install Interview management by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the ServiceNow Store website to view all the available apps and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the ServiceNow Store version history release notes.

    Plugin information

    The Interview management application is delivered as a Store application. For plugin details, see the Store listing.

    Additional requirements

    The Hiring Core application provides essential data models and shared components for Hiring Experiences. The Hiring Core application must be activated.