<aside> 💡 This guide covers assigning, rescheduling and setting interview limits for interviewers. If you are an interviewer, we’d recommend reading over Getting Started for Interviewers to get acquainted with Ashby.

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How does assigning interviewers work?

<aside> 💡 The written information below serves as a summary. We’d recommend watching the video within this guide as it contains a more detailed breakdown of assigning interviewers.

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Schedule Interview Activities

When setting up a schedule interview activity, you can click Interviewers within Configure to add interviewers. From there you can build your panel using the Interviewer Slot and Employee options. (More on schedule interview activities at What is a Schedule Interview Activity?)

Interviewer slots: You can create a slot using the Add Interviewer option and determine the total number of interviewers that can be on your interview panel.

If you have multiple interviewing slots with users assigned to each slot, the availability shown is based on the times that each combination of interviewers are available.

Employees: This drop-down is where you assign who can be booked for the interviewer slot in question. You can assign multiple employees to an interviewer slot if anyone from a certain group of employees can take that slot to interview a candidate.

If multiple users are assigned to one interview slot, the candidate will see the availability for all interviewers. The interview is assigned based on the date and time selected. If multiple interviewers assigned to the same slot are available at the selected time, the interview will be assigned at random to one of them.

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In this example, the candidate will only see times when both interviewers are available to take the interview together.

In this example, the candidate will only see times when both interviewers are available to take the interview together.

In this example, the candidate will see the availability for each interviewer and the interviewer will be assigned based on the interview time selected.

In this example, the candidate will see the availability for each interviewer and the interviewer will be assigned based on the interview time selected.

One-off interviews via the ‘+ New Interview’ button: Quick Schedule and Direct Booking links.

<aside> 💡 Please note that two interview options are discussed here; generating a direct booking link and quick scheduling. The following guides cover both options for instant scheduling via the ‘+ New Interview’ link on a candidate profile:

How do I send an instant booking link?
What is Quick Schedule?

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Instant Direct Booking Links

When using the + New Interview option to generate a booking link, interviewers can be assigned on the pop-up that follows after choosing the Create Direct Booking Link option.

Choose users from the Interviewer drop-down as part of the interview’s settings. Each interviewer you assign via this route will be assigned a slot on the panel.

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Quick Schedule

If you schedule in the candidate directly via the Schedule New Interview option, then you can add in interviewer slots and assign interviewers to them accordingly.

You can also add in alternates for each interviewer slot. Once added, you can view the alternates’ calendars when selecting an interview time to compare their availability with the current interviewer’s. You can then opt to switch out the current interviewer for the alternate if needed.

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