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.
Updated 22 October 2026
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, chooses a time shown in their local zone and answers your screening questions. The call is in your calendar before you have finished reading the CV.
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 every stage of a search a separate 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.
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.
Once a candidate books an interview, invite the hiring manager from the booking in your dashboard. They get the invitation, reminders and any reschedule or cancellation.
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.
The booking page shows your slots in the candidate's local time, and the confirmation does the same, which matters on cross-border searches.
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.
On Pro, publish a group session such as a graduate open evening with 40 places. The page marks the session as it fills, and each candidate gets the joining details and reminders.
Without Tymeslot
With Tymeslot
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.
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.
A briefing call with a hiring manager starts every search. Booking it should not take longer than the briefing.
| Meeting type | Duration | Buffer | Minimum notice | Bookable ahead | Payment at booking |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Screening call | 20 min | 10 min | 4 hours | 10 days | None |
| First-round interview | 45 min | 15 min | 1 day | 10 days | None |
| Client briefing | 60 min | 15 min | 1 day | 3 weeks | None |
Leave salary, right-to-work documents and references out of the booking form; collect them in your ATS at the right stage. Screening takes four hours' notice, interviews close ten days out and briefings three weeks out; each combination of notice and horizon is its own availability schedule, so this setup uses three.
Compared with Calendly and SavvyCal, Tymeslot is the option that costs nothing to start, runs in the EU and keeps advertising trackers off the page a candidate opens. Those three rows lead because a recruiter's link goes to strangers who have agreed to nothing yet, often across borders. SavvyCal has no free plan, and both rivals host in the US and load outside scripts. The trade-off runs the other way for teams: Tymeslot has no round-robin or shared calendars, so an in-house team splitting screening between recruiters needs a team scheduler.
| Feature | Tymeslot | Calendly | SavvyCal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes: screening calls and interviews, no seat fee | Yes, limited to 1 event type and 1 calendar | No: free trial only; a paid plan is needed to activate links |
| Booking page without third-party scripts | No ad trackers; reCAPTCHA once a candidate types | No: third-party scripts are referenced (Stripe, reCAPTCHA, Airbrake, Google Tag Manager) | No: third-party scripts load (Tally, Help Scout, PostHog) |
| Hosting in the EU | Yes: candidate bookings stored in the EU | No: data is stored in US data centres | No: hosted in the US (Virginia) |
Sources checked 5 October 2026.
A rough estimate, not a promise.
240
minutes saved per week
208.0
hours saved per year
€18,720
annual value of saved time
An agency recruiter can run screening calls, interviews and client briefings on Free, caps and hiring-manager guests included. Pro (€9/month, one price rather than per seat) adds the screening questions in this setup and the webhook that files each booking in your ATS. An agency with its own servers gets both by self-hosting.
Free
€0 / month
Pro
€9 / month
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Luka Breitig
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