For Recruiters

Interview Scheduling Software for Recruiters

Put one link in the job advert or your outreach message. Candidates book a screening call in their own time zone, answer a few questions, and you add the hiring manager to the interview once it is booked.

Hosted in the EU
Daily caps on screening calls
Candidates book in their time zone
Luka Breitig, Software Engineer & AI Developer
Luka Breitig

Updated 5 October 2026

The Problem

Why do recruiters lose strong candidates to scheduling delays?

Good candidates are rarely on the market for long. When agreeing a screening call takes three emails across two time zones, the candidate who could start next month has already accepted somewhere else. Tymeslot cuts that to one step: the candidate opens your link from the advert or your message, picks a slot in their own time zone and answers your screening questions. The call is in your calendar before you have finished reading the CV.

Why generic scheduling tools struggle with a candidate pipeline

A search has a distinctive rhythm. In the first week after a role goes live, dozens of candidates need a 20-minute screening call. A week later, a handful need an hour with the hiring manager. Somewhere in between, the client wants a briefing call. Each stage has its own length, its own urgency and its own people.

Tymeslot gives each stage its own meeting type. Screening calls run every 30 minutes on set mornings, with a daily cap so you are not doing twelve in a row. Interviews are private, sent only to shortlisted candidates, and once a candidate books you add the hiring manager as a guest, who then gets the invitation, the reminders and any change. A short booking horizon keeps everything inside the next week or two, while the role is still open.

Features

Everything Recruiters need. Nothing they don't.

Scheduling features shaped around how your practice works.

👥

Daily Caps on Screening Calls

Set a limit per day, week or month on each meeting type. Eight screening calls a day stays eight, however many candidates respond to a busy advert.

📅

Hiring Managers Added as Guests

Once a candidate books an interview, invite the hiring manager as a guest. They get the invitation, reminders and any reschedule or cancellation.

⚙️

Screening Questions at Booking

On Pro, ask for the role applied for, a LinkedIn profile link, a phone number and current notice period, so every screening call starts informed.

🌍

Candidates Book in Their Own Time Zone

The booking page shows your slots in the candidate's local time, and the confirmation does the same, which matters on cross-border searches.

⏰

Slots on a Fixed Grid

Set a slot interval, such as a 20-minute call every 30 minutes, so screening days keep a predictable shape with time between calls for notes.

🔗

One Link per Stage

Each meeting type has its own link to paste into adverts, outreach messages or your agency website, inline, as a popup or as a floating button.

Before & After

See the difference

Same profession. Completely different scheduling experience.

Without Tymeslot

1 Several time options emailed to each candidate
2 Wait for a reply, confirm, send the video link by hand
3 Hiring manager's invite forwarded separately and updated by hand

With Tymeslot

1 Candidate books from the link in the advert or your message
2 Picks a slot in their own time zone and answers screening questions
3 Hiring manager added as a guest and kept up to date automatically
Use Cases

Common scheduling scenarios

How other Recruiters use Tymeslot every day.

Scenario 1

How do recruiters handle a week of screening calls?

When a role goes live, the first few days can bring dozens of applications that each need a short call. Arranging each by email takes as long as the calls themselves.

  • Create a "Screening call" meeting type of 20 minutes with a 30-minute slot interval and a limit of eight a day.
  • On Pro, ask for the role, a LinkedIn profile link and current notice period.
  • Offer phone and video as locations and let the candidate choose.
  • Paste the link into the advert's application confirmation and your outreach messages; candidates book around their current job.
Result: A full week of screening books itself, and every call starts with the candidate's basics in front of you.
Scenario 2

How do recruiters bring hiring managers into first-round interviews?

A first-round interview needs the candidate, you and the hiring manager in the same hour. The hard part is keeping the hiring manager informed when anything changes.

  • Create a private "First-round interview" meeting type of 45 minutes and send its link only to shortlisted candidates.
  • Put it on an availability schedule built around the hiring manager's agreed interview slots, with a booking horizon of 10 days.
  • When a candidate books, add the hiring manager as a guest; they receive the invitation with the video link.
  • If the candidate reschedules, the hiring manager is told and gets the new time automatically.
Result: Interviews are booked into slots the hiring manager has already agreed, and nobody is left with a stale invitation.
Scenario 3

How do recruiters book briefing calls with new clients?

A briefing call with a hiring manager starts every search. Booking it should not take longer than the briefing.

  • Create a "Client briefing" meeting type of 60 minutes with its own link for clients and prospects.
  • On Pro, ask for the role title, the team and the hoped-for start date.
  • Turn on approval if you want to check a prospect before the call is confirmed.
  • The client books, the video link arrives in the confirmation, and you arrive with the role outline.
Result: New searches start sooner, and the briefing begins with the basics already known.
Starter setup

A starter setup for Recruiters

Recommended settings to start from. You can change any of them in your dashboard.

Screening call

Duration
20 min
Buffer
10 min
Minimum notice
4 hours
Bookable ahead
10 days
Payment at booking
None

First-round interview

Duration
45 min
Buffer
15 min
Minimum notice
1 day
Bookable ahead
10 days
Payment at booking
None

Client briefing

Duration
60 min
Buffer
15 min
Minimum notice
1 day
Bookable ahead
3 weeks
Payment at booking
None

Intake questions

  • Which role are you applying for?
  • Link to your LinkedIn profile
  • What is your current notice period?
  • Best phone number for the call

Leave salary, right-to-work documents and references out of the booking form; collect them in your ATS at the right stage. Screening calls need short notice and interviews a day, so each meeting type here needs its own availability schedule.

Intake questions and payments at booking are part of Pro on the managed service, and free when you self-host.

Compare

Tymeslot compared with Paperbell, Calendly and SavvyCal

Facts from each vendor's own pages, with the date we checked them.

Feature Tymeslot Paperbell Calendly SavvyCal
Free plan Yes: unlimited bookings and meeting types Free account to set up, before choosing a paid plan Yes, limited to 1 event type and 1 calendar No: free trial only; a paid plan is needed to activate links
Entry price Pro €9/month, flat; self-hosting is free One plan, billed $97/month or $970/year $10/seat/month, billed yearly From $10/user/month; annual billing saves 2 months
Hosting in the EU Yes, in Germany Not checked No: data is stored in US data centres No: hosted in the US (Virginia)
Self-hosting Yes: Docker, Cloudron or Railway No: hosted service only No: hosted service only No: hosted service only
Open source Yes, GNU AGPLv3 No: hosted service only No: hosted service only No: hosted service only
Booking page without third-party scripts No ad trackers; reCAPTCHA on the booking form Not checked No: third-party scripts are referenced (Stripe, reCAPTCHA, Airbrake, Google Tag Manager) No: third-party scripts load (Tally, Help Scout, PostHog)
Deposit or payment at booking Pro or self-hosted: a fixed amount via Stripe Yes: payment plans and set-up fees; first payment taken at purchase Paid plans only: Stripe or PayPal at booking Premium plan only: paid bookings
Custom intake questions Pro or self-hosted: 10 question types Yes: customisable intake surveys Yes: up to 10 questions per event type, on all plans Yes: custom questions on scheduling links
Signed data processing agreement Enterprise plan only Terms name Paperbell as data processor Yes: accepted with the customer terms Yes: accepted with the Terms of Use

Sources: Paperbell: Paperbell pricing (checked 5 October 2026) Paperbell: Paperbell FAQ (checked 5 October 2026) Paperbell: Paperbell terms and conditions (checked 5 October 2026) Paperbell: Paperbell set-up fees (checked 5 October 2026) Calendly: Calendly pricing (checked 5 October 2026) Calendly: Calendly data storage (checked 5 October 2026) Calendly: Calendly data processing addendum (checked 5 October 2026) Calendly: Calendly demo booking page (checked 5 October 2026) Calendly: Calendly invitee questions (checked 5 October 2026) SavvyCal: SavvyCal pricing (checked 5 October 2026) SavvyCal: SavvyCal security and hosting (checked 5 October 2026) SavvyCal: SavvyCal data processing addendum (checked 5 October 2026) SavvyCal: Custom questions in SavvyCal (checked 5 October 2026) SavvyCal: SavvyCal demo booking page (checked 5 October 2026)

How to choose

What to check before you choose

  • Find out where client data is stored and whether a data processing agreement comes with your plan.
  • Work out the cost at your firm's size: per-seat pricing grows with every colleague.
  • Check that the tool syncs with the calendar standard your firm uses, such as CalDAV.
  • See whether you can take a fee or retainer at booking, and on which plan.
  • Try embedding the booking page on your firm's website.
  • Ask how you would export your data if you left.

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Integrations

Which calendars and video tools do recruiters use with Tymeslot?

Connects to the tools you already use. No extra setup.

Google Calendar
Outlook
Google Meet
Teams
Zoom
CalDAV
Pricing

Start free, upgrade when you're ready

Core scheduling is always free. No credit card required.

Free

€0 / month

  • Unlimited bookings and meeting types
  • Calendar sync (Google, Outlook, CalDAV)
  • Auto video rooms (Meet, Teams, Zoom, Jitsi, Nextcloud Talk and more)
  • Booking page at tymeslot.app/you
  • Email reminders & notifications
  • Both booking themes and website embeds
Pro

Pro

€9 / month

  • Everything in Free
  • Custom booking questions for intake
  • Payments at booking via your own Stripe account
  • Remove Tymeslot branding from booking pages
  • Booking analytics and automation
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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Tymeslot GDPR compliant for recruiters handling candidate data?

Candidates who book a recruiter through Tymeslot land on a booking page hosted in Germany that loads no advertising trackers or third-party analytics, so applying for a role does not hand their visit to ad networks. On tymeslot.app, Google reCAPTCHA loads once a client starts filling in the booking form, to block spam bookings; a self-hosted instance runs it only if you configure it. Candidates share only what your booking form asks for, which should stay at the basics a screening call needs. Booking emails go through Postmark, which records delivery and opens but not clicks. A signed data processing agreement is offered on the Enterprise plan only, not Free or Pro. Agencies that want candidate bookings on their own infrastructure can self-host Tymeslot.

Can Tymeslot replace an ATS for recruiters?

Recruiters still need an applicant tracking system alongside Tymeslot, which is scheduling software for recruiters: it books screening calls, interviews and client briefings, but keeps no pipeline, CVs or placement records. On Pro, webhooks send each booking, cancellation and reschedule to your ATS if it accepts them, and Slack or Telegram can tell you when a candidate books.

How do recruiters reduce candidate no-shows with Tymeslot?

Tymeslot helps recruiters reduce candidate no-shows with reminder emails at times they choose and a reschedule link in every confirmation, so a candidate who cannot make it moves the call instead of skipping it. A cancellation frees the slot for the next candidate. A short booking horizon, such as 10 days, keeps each call close to the moment the candidate applied. Taking payment from candidates is not appropriate for recruitment, so leave payment off these meeting types.

How does Tymeslot compare with Calendly for recruiters?

Calendly prices its paid plans per seat, from US$10 a month billed yearly according to its pricing page, while Tymeslot gives recruiters a free plan with unlimited meeting types and a Pro plan at one flat price. Calendly's free plan allows one event type and one calendar, and its help centre says data is stored in US data centres. Tymeslot's managed service is hosted in Germany, which helps when candidates are in the EU. If your ATS has a built-in Calendly connection, check whether it also accepts webhooks before switching.

Can recruitment agencies self-host Tymeslot?

A recruitment agency with its own IT can self-host Tymeslot, so candidate names and screening answers never leave infrastructure the agency controls. It runs with Docker, Cloudron or Railway, is open source under the GNU AGPLv3, and includes screening questions and webhooks to your ATS without a subscription per recruiter. The agency then looks after the server, updates and backups.

Is Tymeslot free for independent recruiters?

Yes, an independent recruiter can run screening calls, first-round interviews and client briefings on Tymeslot's free plan, with daily caps, a slot grid and hiring managers added as guests. Pro (€9/month) adds screening questions such as notice period and LinkedIn profile, booking analytics, webhooks to your ATS and Slack or Telegram alerts, and removes Tymeslot branding.

Which calendars and video tools can recruiters use with Tymeslot?

Recruiters can connect Google Calendar, Outlook or a CalDAV calendar to Tymeslot, which creates a Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet or Jitsi link for each interview. Screening calls can offer phone as well as video, with the candidate choosing. Tymeslot checks only the calendars connected to your own account, so plan interview slots with hiring managers in advance rather than relying on their calendars being read.

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