Interviewer Pools
9 min
interviewer pools is an admin tool to help you group and manage interviewers based on their qualifications or other attributes if you have certain individuals who are qualified to lead certain interviews, for instance, you can assign an interview pool when setting up the interview activity to select from multiple qualified interviewers interviewer pools can be used independently on in conjunction with interviewer training docid\ c eo5ek8ip34bcrzy2epb , which is a part of the advanced scheduling automation add on docid\ ycrhy6o 0hutvzyuuzmk1 permissions & access the interviewer pools tool is available on the foundations, plus, enterprise and legacy plus plans foundations legacy plus plus enterprise ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ see the table below for information on the roles that have access to create to interviewer pools access role has access? limited access ❌ agency users ❌ elevated access external recruiter (not linked to an agency) ❌ elevated access analyst ❌ elevated access hiring team member ❌ elevated access hiring manager ❌ elevated access admin ❌ elevated access admin private ❌ organization admin ✅ only organization admins can configure interviewer pools by default elevated access users can be given access to this feature if needed more on this at additional user permissions docid\ mhy0txb4sxnqye9xkvn8e interviewer pool setup steps to create a pool, navigate to interviewer pools https //app ashbyhq com/admin/interview/interviewer tags in admin click + new in the top right corner and give the pool a name highlights the + new button to add a new interviewer pool on the page for the pool you just created click + add interviewers under the qualified members section search and/or select an employee from the employee drop down click submit to add the employee you can also add employees to interview pools as qualified members via the interview info tab of their profile adding an employee directly to an interviewer pool's qualified members using this method will remove them from the pool's training path if they are currently training for that pool the section to add trainees is only for enterprise plans with interviewer training docid\ c eo5ek8ip34bcrzy2epb enabled, or those who have purchased the advanced scheduling automation add on docid\ ycrhy6o 0hutvzyuuzmk1 managing interviewer pools once you have created an interviewer pool, you can update it at any time by navigating to admin > interviewer pools and clicking on the pool name on the interviewers tab, you can add or remove additional interviewers from the pool as needed the search bar allows you to search for specific members to take action on them shows the interviewer list in the pool with the name 'henry' added to the search bar and the results if you have interviewer training in your plan, you will see an option to pause membership in the pool this will prevent the employee from being added to interviews when this pool is used to pause an interviewer globally (e g prevent them from being added to interviews for a duration of time, such as when on vacation), you can navigate to their employee profile > interviewer info and turn on pause interviewer for more information, see assigning interviewers docid\ u87fcsbruh9pkclyl2qko on the settings tab, you can rename the interviewer pool or toggle the training settings if your plan includes training points out the interviewer pool name field where the interview pool can be renamed at any time if at any point an interviewer pool is no longer needed, you can select the archive button in the top right to archive the pool using the filter in the above right of the pool list, you can opt to view all archived pools clicking on a pool and selecting restore will restore the pool to the active list the notifications tab is only relevant to those with interviewer training included in their plan see interviewer training docid\ c eo5ek8ip34bcrzy2epb for more information congrats, you've learned to create and manage interview pools! see setting up schedule interview activities docid 0z5jm eqkvzq oqc03rer for more information on adding pools to interview activities, or interviewer training docid\ c eo5ek8ip34bcrzy2epb for how to use pools of trainees faq are there limits on how many interview pools i can create based on my plan? no, any plan type can create as many interviewer pools as they need foundations, legacy plus, and plus customers without the advanced scheduling automation add on docid\ ycrhy6o 0hutvzyuuzmk1 are limited to a single interviewer pool that has a training path