What’s new in JOIN: Product highlights from 2025 and early 2026

Hiring keeps evolving. Teams grow, processes become more complex, and candidates expect a smooth experience from the first click to the final offer.

At JOIN, our goal remains the same: to help you hire easier and faster. Over the past year, we’ve focused on improving the tools you use every day. The result is clearer workflows, better collaboration, and less manual work for your team.

Here’s what’s new.

Notes: Smarter collaboration with threads, reactions, and rich formatting

Hiring often slows down because of scattered feedback across platforms. Candidate-related Notes often get buried in inboxes and chat threads, key context goes missing, and decisions take longer than they should. JOIN’s redesigned Notes bring everything into one clear space. 

With Notes, collaboration feels simple. Tag teammates, reply directly in context, and use emojis to keep conversations clear and structured. Highlight important details with text formatting, and rely on threaded replies to keep related comments together. You decide what stays private and what the wider team can see, giving you the flexibility to handle sensitive topics while keeping general feedback transparent and aligned.

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Interview scheduling: Coordinate and manage interviews in one place

Scheduling interviews shouldn’t feel chaotic, but it often does. When several team members are involved, calendars quickly clash. You end up juggling back-and-forth emails, switching between Google and Outlook, sending manual confirmations, and tracking interviews across different tools. Important details slip through the cracks, and your team spends hours on admin instead of focusing on hiring.

JOIN’s built-in interview scheduling brings everything together in one place. Sync your Google or Microsoft calendar and workspace to avoid double bookings. Share smart booking links so candidates can choose a time that fits your updated availability. Confirmation and rescheduling emails go out automatically, without adding manual effort. All upcoming, pending, and past interviews sit in one clear view, giving you full control.

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Notifications: Stay on top of candidate and job activity

When notifications aren’t clear, important hiring moments are easy to miss. Updates land in your email, chat, and ATS all at once, and it’s hard to see what really needs your attention. A strong candidate’s reply gets buried in your inbox. A teammate’s feedback goes unnoticed. You either miss important follow-ups or spend time sorting through alerts that aren’t relevant.

JOIN’s Notifications hub keeps everything in one clear view. Track candidate activity, job updates, and team collaboration from a single place. You decide what you want to be notified about and how. Choose in-app pop-ups for real-time updates, email digests for a focused daily or weekly summary, or combine both. Digest emails group application activity into one overview, so you stay informed without reacting to every single alert.

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Email Messaging: Manage candidate communication directly in JOIN

Keeping track of conversations with candidates can quickly become overwhelming. Messages land in your personal inbox, replies sit in different threads, and context is spread across tools. It becomes harder to collaborate, follow-ups get delayed, and promising candidates lose momentum.

We’ve rebuilt messaging in JOIN with a new Mailbox that lets you send and receive emails in one central place. Every message links to the candidate’s profile, so you always have full context. Format emails clearly, CC teammates to stay aligned, and schedule messages for the right time. Candidates reply from their usual inbox, and responses appear in the same thread. You can also mark conversations as private to keep sensitive topics confidential.

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Email Templates: Reusable messages for every hiring stage

Writing the same emails at every hiring stage quickly drains your team’s time. Each new application needs a confirmation. Every rejection requires a new message. Assessment invitations get rewritten again and again. On top of that, messages can vary in tone, miss key details, or feel inconsistent to candidates.

JOIN’s Email Templates remove repetition and add structure to your communication. Create reusable templates for every stage, from application confirmations to rejections and interview invites. Insert them with one click or set defaults to send the right message automatically. Add dynamic fields like candidate name or job title to personalise each email in seconds. Your team saves time, stays consistent, and sends clear, professional updates without rewriting messages every time.

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Integrations: Seamless workflows across your hiring stack

Hiring rarely happens in just one tool. With JOIN now integrated with Zapier and Make, you can connect your entire hiring workflow to thousands of apps, without technical setup or coding.

JOIN + Zapier: Connect to 8,000+ apps

Set up automated workflows in minutes with Zapier’s intuitive, drag-and-drop builder. Use ready-made triggers like “Application Created” or actions such as “Update Job Status” to automate repetitive tasks. Send alerts for new applicants, sync candidate data to Google Sheets, or update records in your CRM automatically. No developer support needed.

JOIN + Make: Custom automation for your team

If you need more tailored workflows, JOIN is available on Make with 17 ready-to-use modules and access to 2,000+ apps. Use the visual builder to publish jobs, manage applications, sync candidate notes to your CRM, or send Slack alerts. For advanced setups, you can even call JOIN API endpoints to match your exact process, all without writing code.

Whether you choose Zapier for simplicity or Make for deeper customisation, both integrations help you reduce repetitive work, keep your hiring data aligned across tools, and stay focused on what matters most: making great hiring decisions.

Already using either of these tools for custom automations? Give JOIN automations a try.

Explore JOIN on Zapier | Explore JOIN on Make

What’s next

Every update we released in 2025 and early 2026 follows one clear goal: make hiring more structured and easier to manage as your team grows. We continuously improve JOIN based on how teams actually hire, collaborate, and make decisions.

We listen closely to how you use JOIN. When processes feel unclear or time-consuming, we refine them step by step. If your hiring is becoming more complex, these updates help you stay organised and in control, without adding extra admin.

Already using JOIN? We’d love your feedback. Tell us what we should build next and what belongs on our roadmap. Share your ideas directly on our changelog.

Not using JOIN yet? Explore what’s new and see how the latest improvements can support your team as you scale.