Upcoming in 2025: Year in Review, Ashby One, and fresh new insights

Welcome to the 14th edition of Ashby Talent Digest, a community newsletter surfacing recruiting insights, podcasts, events, and more from across the web.

Upcoming Events

Ashby Year in Review

We’d love for you to join us as we take a look back at the major features we added to the Ashby platform in 2024!

We’’ll recap product updates across Scheduling, CRM & Sourcing, ATS, and Analytics, with a focus on workflows designed to help you:

• Stay ahead of the curve with AI and automation

• Nurture interest in a candidate-rich market
• Strengthen systems to drive talent density

We’ll also share a sneak peek at some exciting features coming to Ashby in Q1 2025.

>> Register here to save your spot

Ashby One

This upcoming spring, Ashby is hosting our first conference: Ashby One! This one-day event is dedicated to inspiring and connecting TA Leaders, Talent Operators, and RecOps experts from around the globe. Sign up to be notified when tickets go on sale. 

Insights Corner

As 2025 plans take shape, reflecting on 2024 trends can be an important informant. At Ashby, we publish Talent Trend Reports that use millions of proprietary data points to set benchmarks and provide insight into how recruiting and talent operations are evolving. Next month, we’ll share our newest findings wrapping up what recruiters and candidates experienced in 2024. Subscribe to our Talent Trends newsletter to be among the first to check it out.

New on Ashby

Ashby will now auto-select Zoom hosts based on who is scheduled for a given interview. 

This means you don’t need to worry about statically setting one person as the host (who may not actually be available) or using a shared zoom account for certain interviews. 

Very useful for direct booking link workflows where you may not know in advance who will conduct the interview or single event interviews. More details in this post.

Other noteworthy additions:

• Global application questions and auto-reject rules (Enterprise)
• Internal job boards come to mobile app
• Grant admins access to all confidential jobs and projects within existing permissions

ICYMI Webinars

Choosing the Right TA Tech Vendor: A Practical Guide for TA Leaders

Industry leaders Melissa Willis and Brandon Wadley shared a proven, actionable framework for selecting the right TA tech tools and vendors for your organization. From aligning stakeholders to crafting winning evaluation processes, attendees walked away with practical strategies and insider tips to make confident, impactful decisions.

>> Watch the replay

Recent Guests on the Offer Accepted Podcast

The Offer Accepted podcast brings together top talent and hiring leaders to explore key strategies in recruiting and talent acquisition. Our most recent guests include:

• Mike Peditto , Director of Talent at Teal, shares how to create a human-centered hiring process by rethinking traditional practices, including paid work trials and sharing interview questions upfront, to build trust and empower candidates.
• [Reshare] Aline Lerner , Founder & CEO of interviewing.io, and Mike Mroczka , Software Engineer and Dedicated Coaching Interviewer, explore how to safeguard technical interviews by rethinking traditional practices, including replacing generic questions with real-world challenges and emphasizing transparency, to foster trust and improve hiring outcomes.

Short on time to listen? Check out the key insights in the episode notes on our blog! 

Recruiting Takes from Around the Web

We’ve rounded up this season’s standout insights—from 2024 recaps to what’s shaping 2025:

• The AI salary surge, location-based pay, and more tech talent trends: SignalFire highlights rising AI salaries, leaner startup teams, and narrowing geographic pay gaps as companies refine compensation strategies to attract and retain top talent.
• Five hiring trends you need to know for 2025: Korn Ferry surveyed 400 TA professionals and 40 experts to uncover the top five hiring trends for 2025, following the AI boom and shift to skills-based hiring that left many enterprises stuck in planning.
• Explore trends in interviews: Metaview analyzed the most discussed terms from customer interview conversations, offering insights into popular themes across industries and how they evolved over the year.

Partnership Updates

Our Partnerships team continues extending our integration functionality. There are now 155+ integrations in the Integrations Marketplace, and the list is growing weekly! Here are the ones we’ve added since our last update:

• BarRaiser [Interview Intelligence] - BarRaiser is an AI-powered interview intelligence platform that helps companies conduct high-quality, data-driven interviews. It provides structured insights, real-time guidance, and ongoing interviewer training, enabling reduced bias, better feedback, and a more efficient, structured hiring process.
• Calyptus [Job Board] - Web3's trusted hiring platform powered by AI, onchain credentials and gamified rewards.
• Leapsome [Post-Hire] - Automates, connects, and simplifies HR processes — from onboarding and performance management to employee engagement and development. 
• Ironclad [Offers] - Ironclad gives business and legal teams an easy-to-use platform with AI-powered tools to handle every aspect of the contract lifecycle.
• Upwage [Other] - Interview every candidate instantly on apply. Everyone gets a fair shot, and recruiters find the best candidates faster - no integrations needed.

Check out Ashby University andAshby Release Notes for more information about these features, and reach out to support@ashbyhq.com with any questions and feedback.

Ashby Customers Hiring for People Ops/Recruiting Roles

Looking for a new role? Here are open jobs hosted on Ashby that are live as of this newsletter release:

Lead Recruiter at January (New York, NY, USA)

Head of TA at Speak (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Senior Technical Recruiter at TeamBridge (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Lead Recruiter at Osmo (NJ, USA)

Senior Technical Recruiter at Maze (Remote (EST), USA)

Senior Business Recruiter at Clay (New York, NY, USA)

Senior Recruiter at Sardine (Remote - USA or Canada)

Recruiting Operations Manage Patreon (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Head of People Insights at Taxfix (Berlin, Germany)

Talent Sourcer at Wincent (Slovakia, Czechia, Poland, UK, Gibraltar)