This past year brought meaningful improvements designed to help hiring teams work better. They weren’t just new features – Every update focused on reducing friction, improving interview quality, and giving teams clearer hiring signal to help TA leaders and recruiters make confident decisions, while keeping the candidate experience at the heart of the hiring process.
Every launch has been grounded in our mission: to give every person the hiring experience they deserve. And we’re grateful for the customer feedback, ideas, and collaboration that shaped every release.
Here’s a look at how the 2025’s BrightHire Product Updates are delivering real, everyday value across the hiring process:
BrightHire Screen, your always-on AI interviewer
The current job market is overwhelming – for everyone. Recruiters are overwhelmed by volume. Talented candidates get lost in the noise. In November, we launched BrightHire Screen to change this.
BrightHire Screen acts as an extension of your recruiting team, allowing you to automate first-round interviews and screen more candidates efficiently and fairly.
With BrightHire Screen, you get:
- More recruiter capacity without more effort: Scale screening capacity without adding recruiter workload.
- More access and fairness for candidates: Give applicants a real shot with consistent, structured interviews that go beyond the resume.
- A product powered by a platform you already know and love: BrightHire Screen works seamlessly with our interview intelligence platform, giving teams complete candidate context and more informed decisions.
Learn more about BrightHire Screen.
Better Interviews
Capture clearer signal and align faster with Next-Gen AI Notes Templates
Next-Gen AI Notes Templates help teams capture exactly the information they need from every hiring conversation — without distracting interviewers or having to manually comb through transcripts.
By tailoring notes to different interview types, teams get clearer signal, more consistent feedback, and better alignment across recruiters and hiring managers. The result is smoother debriefs, faster decisions, and a better experience for both candidates and interviewers.
See Next Gen AI Note Templates in action.
Get instant answers with Ask Assistant to move candidates forward faster.
Ask Assistant helps teams quickly find answers when context matters most. Instead of rewatching interviews or scanning notes, recruiters and hiring managers can instantly surface key details, revisit candidate strengths, or confirm whether important topics were covered – all fright on any candidate page in BrightHire.
This makes handoffs easier, collaboration faster, and decisions more confident — especially when multiple stakeholders are involved.
Learn more about Ask Assistant.
Connect with candidates globally using International Calling
International Calling makes it easy for teams to connect with candidates and colleagues anywhere in the world without juggling tools or workflows.
By supporting global calls and SMS directly in BrightHire, teams can deliver a consistent, professional candidate experience across regions while keeping all interview activity centralized in one place.
Save prep time by auto-assigning guides with Calendar-Based Guide Assignment
Calendar-Based Guide Assignment removes manual setup from interview prep. When interviews are scheduled, BrightHire automatically links the right role and interview guide — so interviewers are always prepared without extra work.
This saves time, reduces errors, and ensures interviews stay structured and consistent across the team.
Insights and Enablement
Align compensation faster using Compensation Trends
Compensation Trends give hiring teams real, interview-based data to guide compensation decisions. Instead of relying on outdated benchmarks or manual spreadsheets, teams can quickly understand candidate expectations and market movement.
These insights help teams align faster, stay competitive, forecast accurately, and ultimately close top talent with confidence
Learn more about Compensation Trends.
Understand what candidates care about with Candidate Motivations Themes
Candidate Motivations Themes reveal what candidates actually care about — based on real interview conversations.
By understanding recurring motivations, teams can improve outbound messaging, strengthen job descriptions, and address candidate priorities earlier in the process, leading to better engagement and higher close rates.
Learn more about Candidate Motivations.
Anticipate candidate concerns with Candidate Question Themes
Candidate Question Themes help teams understand what candidates are asking — and why.
These insights allow recruiters and hiring managers to better prepare for interviews, build stronger candidate FAQs, and proactively address concerns that might otherwise slow decisions or cause drop-off.
Learn more about Candidate Questions.
Put actionable hiring data in recruiters’ hands with Advanced Insights access
Giving recruiters direct access to Advanced Insights puts actionable data where it has the most impact.
Recruiters can better understand interview performance, candidate experience, and hiring trends — enabling them to make smarter decisions and continuously improve their process without relying on separate reports.
Learn more about Recruiter Insight Access.
Share and analyze interview data anywhere with CSV Downloads
CSV downloads make BrightHire insights more flexible and easier to share. Teams can export data to build custom reports, connect insights to BI tools, or collaborate with stakeholders across the organization.
This ensures valuable interview data doesn’t stay siloed — it fuels improvement wherever teams need it.
Learn more about CSV downloads.
Improve interview quality at scale with the Interview Coaching Agent
The Interview Coaching Agent helps teams improve interview quality at scale,by automatically delivering personalized feedback based on real interviews — all right to your interviewer inbox.
Over time, this leads to more consistent interviews, stronger signal, and better experiences for candidates, regardless of who’s doing the interviewing.
Compliance and Admin
Protect sensitive data with Compensation Redaction
Compensation Redaction helps teams collaborate freely while protecting sensitive information. By automatically removing salary, bonus, and equity details from transcripts and recordings, teams can share interview context without compliance risk.
This reduces manual effort and makes it easier to stay aligned with legal and internal policies.
Get full visibility into interviews with the Full Scheduled Interview List
The Full Scheduled Interview List gives admins complete visibility into every interview — past and upcoming — across the organization.
With powerful filters and export options, teams can monitor recording status, track outcomes, and ensure interviews are running smoothly and consistently at scale.
Check it out in your BrightHire account.
Integrations
Eliminate duplicate work with 1-click AI notes import to Workday
The BrightHire browser extension now supports full Questionnaire mapping from Workday! It detects all questions in a Workday feedback form and automatically matches them against AI notes.
Each AI note is then autofilled into the Questionnaire question whose content most closely aligns with the AI note’s subject matter.
Keep interviews aligned with job description import to Workday
Job description import to Workday ensures interview summaries and skills coverage are aligned with the role from the start.
By pulling job details directly from the ATS, teams maintain consistency across screening, interviews, and evaluation — without manual re-entry.
Read more about integrating Workday and BrightHire.
Run more seamless interviews inside Microsoft Teams with the Teams App
The Microsoft Teams App brings BrightHire directly into the flow of interviews. Interviewers can access questions, capture notes in real time, and stay fully focused on candidates — all without switching tools.
This reduces friction during interviews and helps teams run more consistent, high-quality conversations.
Keep interview data connected with the BrightHire + Gem integration
The BrightHire + Gem integration keeps interview data connected across the hiring stack. From scheduled interviews to notes and activity updates, teams get a seamless flow of information without extra steps.
This makes collaboration smoother, reduces manual updates, and ensures interview insights are always available where teams already work.
