iCIMS announced its vision for the Intelligent Hiring Platform, advancing its applicant tracking system (ATS) for the AI era by combining more than 25 years of proprietary hiring data and workflows with contextual AI automation. As part of this rollout, iCIMS unveiled two new specialized AI agents to join its existing Sourcing Agent:
- The iCIMS Hiring Agent: Integrates directly into tools where teams already work—starting with Microsoft Teams in October 2026, with plans to expand to other platforms in 2027—allowing hiring managers to review candidates, submit feedback, and complete approvals without needing to log into the ATS.
- The iCIMS Interview Scheduling Agent: Slated for release by late 2026, it automates availability checks, booking, and multi-party coordination to eliminate back-and-forth communication and accelerate hiring timelines.
The company will demonstrate these new AI capabilities at the upcoming 2026 HR Tech Conference in Las Vegas and UNLEASH World in Paris.
Vervoe, an AI-powered skills validation platform, today launched two new capabilities, Skills Advisory and Intelligent Interview Scheduling, and announced two senior leadership appointments, as more enterprises move to skills-based hiring and look for credible ways to evaluate how candidates and employees actually perform the work. Kasey Harboe Guentert, Ph.D., joins as Head of Skills Advisory, and Nick Bailey joins as Chief Revenue Officer.
As organizations move away from resumes and credentials as proxies for capability, they increasingly want evidence of demonstrated skills, both when hiring and across their existing workforce. The new capabilities extend Vervoe’s validated skills evidence deeper into the hiring process, and the two appointments give Vervoe the firepower to scale into the enterprise segment globally. The United States is a priority growth market for Vervoe.
Skills Advisory
Skills Advisory is a new function that helps enterprises solve their most important skills and selection challenges, pairing Vervoe’s platform with senior assessment expertise so clients get guidance, not just technology. Led by industrial-organizational psychologist Kasey Harboe Guentert, Ph.D., Vervoe’s skills advisory function works with talent and transformation leaders on the harder questions behind skills-based evaluation: defining the skills that matter for a role, designing assessments that measure them accurately, and building selection processes that are consistent, evidence-based, and defensible. It positions Vervoe as a long-term, strategic partner to its enterprise customers, especially as organizations extend skills validation from hiring into their existing workforce.
Intelligent Interview Scheduling
Recruiters can now schedule interviews for candidates who performed well in the assessment using Vervoe’s new Intelligent Interview Scheduling product.
Unlike scheduling tools that just handle calendars, Vervoe’s Intelligent Interview Scheduling puts each candidate’s assessment results in front of interviewers before they meet. Every interview builds on what the candidate has already shown, instead of starting from scratch. Because Vervoe has already assessed each candidate, interviewers know exactly what to focus on in the interview, making it much more valuable.
It handles the logistics too. Scheduling happens directly in Vervoe, so hiring no longer fragments once a candidate is shortlisted: candidates self-book in minutes, interviewers connect their Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace calendars, and confirmations, reminders, and rescheduling run automatically.
