Hiring becomes chaotic around 15–20 employees. Before that, a spreadsheet works. After that, candidates fall through cracks, interview feedback is lost, and time-to-hire stretches because nobody owns the process. Zoho Recruit structures the chaos.
Configure hiring stages matching your process: Application Received → Phone Screen → Technical Assessment → Interview (Round 1) → Interview (Round 2) → Reference Check → Offer → Hired/Rejected. Each stage has an owner, a SLA (how long a candidate should sit in this stage), and required actions.
Job posting integration: connect Zoho Recruit to Seek (primary for Australian hiring) and LinkedIn. When you publish a job in Recruit, it posts to connected boards automatically. Applications flow back into Recruit with parsed resume data.
Interview scorecards standardise evaluation. Define criteria per role type: technical skills, communication, culture fit, problem-solving. Each interviewer scores against the same criteria. This replaces the 'I liked them' / 'I didn't like them' feedback that leads to bad hires.
Australian compliance: track right-to-work documentation (visa status, citizenship evidence) as mandatory fields before offer stage. Store documents securely in the candidate record. Configure offer templates with standard employment terms aligned to Fair Work requirements.
Handoff to Zoho People: when a candidate reaches 'Hired' status, automate employee record creation in People with data from Recruit (name, contact, role, start date, documents). This eliminates the HR admin of re-entering data that already exists in the hiring system.
Published 15 November 2025