Interview Scheduler for Recruiting Teams and Hiring Managers built around a hiring team, not a single interviewer

Picktime's interview scheduler helps recruiters coordinate interviews without endless emails. Set each interviewer's availability and share a Booking Page where candidates can choose an available time. Hiring managers can focus on their interviews instead of coordinating every appointment.

  • Free forever plan
  • No card required
  • Managers publish hours only
A hiring manager interviewing a candidate across the table of a small meeting room, a laptop open between them
Who a recruiter can book across
EngTwo managers · Tue, ThuBookable
DesignOne manager · afternoonsBookable
PanelAll three free · Thu 14:00Offered

Interviewers

Own week

A working week each

One link

No account

Candidates use it and nothing else

The form asks

What you need

Whatever you need to know first

Is this you

Built for Recruiters and Busy Hiring Managers

Picktime helps recruiting teams manage interviewer availability, candidate bookings, and team permissions in one place. Recruiters can coordinate interviews across team members, while hiring managers can keep track of their own schedules. Candidates can also choose available interview times through your booking page.

One Scheduling System for Every Role

Recruiters need to coordinate interviews across the team, while hiring managers focus on their own schedules. With Picktime's Team Management roles and permissions, admins can control what each team member can access and manage.

Users · Two kinds · One page

Keep interviewer availability simple

Interviewers can manage their working hours, breaks, and availability. Recruiters then schedule against the time those team members have made available.

Manager · Hours only · Theirs

Give recruiters the access they need

A recruiting coordinator may need to manage appointments for several interviewers, while an interviewer may only need access to their own schedule. Picktime lets admins assign roles and permissions based on each person's responsibilities.

Sees · By role · Set

Schedule interviews across time zones

Candidates and interviewers may be in different locations. Picktime's interview scheduler app supports time zone conversion, helping candidates view available interview times in their local time zone when the feature is enabled.

Zones · Their clock · Paid plan
The structural cost

When Scheduling Gets in the Way of Hiring

An interview can get delayed by a simple scheduling problem. A recruiter asks a hiring manager for available times, waits for a reply, and then shares those options with the candidate. By the time the candidate responds, some of those slots may already be taken.

Recruiters may be working from availability that a hiring manager shared earlier, not what is open now. When several interviewers need to attend the same meeting, the recruiter also has to confirm a time that works for everyone.

An interview scheduler helps recruiters offer times based on interviewer availability. With Picktime, they can share a Booking Page so candidates choose an available interview slot. For panel interviews, recruiters can coordinate a time that works for every participant before making it available to candidates.

Ask

Three times proposed to a managerAnswered a day and a half later.

Two of them have gone by then.

Wait

The candidate replies on WednesdayThe remaining slot has been taken.

Start again, from the beginning.

Gone

They accept somewhere elseSomewhere that talked to them on Tuesday.

It looks like a candidate who lost interest.

Eng

Two managers · Tue, Thu

Bookable
Design

One manager · afternoons

Bookable
Panel

All three free · Thu 14:00

Offered

The interview may take 30 minutes. Getting everyone there can take much longer.

What a hiring team needs

Four ways an interview scheduler keeps recruiters moving

Each one removes a round of asking, and none of them requires a hiring manager to do anything except keep their own hours honest.

A consultant taking a candidate through a registration at the agency front desk, lanyard tray on the counter
RecruitAll diariesOne view

Recruiters coordinate the team

Give recruiting staff the permissions they need to manage bookings across the relevant team members.

Interviewers set their own availability

Team members can set their working hours and breaks in Picktime's interview scheduling software. Recruiters can then use that availability to schedule interviews without repeatedly asking for open times by email.

Candidates choose the slot themselves

Share your Picktime Booking Page for online interview scheduling so candidates can choose an available time without coordinating every slot through email.

Coordinate interviews with multiple team members

For panel interviews, recruiters can review each interviewer's availability, agree on a common time, and make that slot available to the candidate.

Who sees what

Manage Interview Scheduling Across Your Team

Hiring teams often have interviewers with different schedules and responsibilities. Recruiters need to coordinate these appointments, while hiring managers need to know when their interviews are scheduled. Without an interview scheduling tool, managing everything through separate emails and booking links can make coordination harder.

That’s where Team Management helps. Admins can assign scheduling permissions based on each person's responsibilities. Recruiters can be given access to manage the relevant appointments, while hiring managers can focus on their own schedules and availability.

Recruiters can create services for different interview stages, set their durations, and assign the relevant interviewers. Hiring managers can keep their availability updated, while recruiters manage bookings using the permissions assigned to them. This helps everyone stay organized without giving every team member the same level of access.

As hiring grows

Set Up Interview Scheduling Around Your Team

A hiring surge costs nothing extra. What moves you along is more people interviewing and more places doing it from.

  1. With Picktime's interview scheduler, add your interviewers, set their working hours, assign them to the relevant interview services, and share your booking page with candidates.

  2. Enable Timezone Conversion to help candidates view available interview times in their local time zone.

  3. Manage interviews across Multiple Locations in Picktime. Assign interviewers to the relevant locations and set their working hours so candidates can choose available times.

What it costs

Free to start, and priced by how many people interview

Nothing counts candidates or interviews. The plans count people and places, which is the only thing about a hiring team that changes what the software has to do.

Free, and it stays free

Free

What a small hiring team gets without paying

  • A working week for each interviewer
  • One booking link candidates use with no account
  • A booking form asking whatever you need to know
  • Email notifications on every booking
  • Times shown in the candidate’s own time zone

Start free

As hiring grows

Paid plans

What the paid plans add

  • Times shown automatically in the candidate’s own time zone
  • Reminders by email and text, which is what cuts the interview no-show
  • Interviews that arrive as a request for a manager to accept
  • More interviewers, and hiring from more than one office

See what each plan includes

Works with what you already run

Keep interviews connected to your existing tools

Managers keep their own calendar

Connect supported calendars with Picktime's Calendar Sync so interviewers can keep track of appointments alongside their other events. For virtual interviews, configure a supported Virtual Meetings integration to generate meeting links for bookings at the relevant virtual location.

Manage interview bookings between calls

Recruiters and interviewers can use Picktime's interview scheduler in a browser or through its iOS and Android apps to check upcoming appointments and manage bookings while away from their desks.

Questions

Interview scheduling for hiring teams: common questions

What’s the easiest way to schedule interviews with candidates?

Give candidates access to available interview times instead of coordinating every slot by email or phone. With Picktime, you can set interviewer availability and share an online booking page or booking link so candidates can choose from the times you make available.

Do hiring managers need to manage interview scheduling themselves?

Not necessarily. Your recruiting team can set up interview services, availability, and bookings, while individual hiring managers can have separate logins when they need access to their own schedules. Candidates can then book against the availability your team has set rather than asking each hiring manager to arrange times manually.

Can Picktime automatically schedule a panel interview with several interviewers?

For panel interviews, recruiters should confirm a common time for all participating interviewers before offering it to candidates. Picktime can then help manage the candidate booking through the Booking Page.

Will candidates see interview times in their own time zone?

Yes. Picktime's Timezone Conversion lets candidates view available interview slots in their local time zone. When automatic time-zone switching is enabled, Picktime can detect the candidate's time zone and adjust the displayed times accordingly.

Do candidates need a Picktime account to schedule an interview?

Candidates can book directly through the online booking page, and you can choose whether login is required for bookings. If you do not enable the login requirement, candidates can use the booking flow without being forced to sign in first.

What should I look for in an interview scheduling tool?

The right interview scheduler should fit the way your hiring team actually works. Useful capabilities to consider include candidate self-booking, interviewer availability, time-zone handling, team access, calendar management, rescheduling, and support for virtual interviews; Picktime provides these types of scheduling tools for recruiting teams.

What does the 30-60-90 rule mean in an interview?

In hiring, “30-60-90” usually refers to a 30-60-90 day plan rather than an interview scheduling rule. A candidate may outline what they would aim to learn during the first 30 days, contribute during the next 30, and accomplish or take ownership of by around 90 days.

What are the 5 C’s of interviewing?

There is no single universally accepted set of “5 C’s” for interviewing; different employers and hiring frameworks use the term differently. If your organization uses a 5 C’s framework, define the five criteria clearly so interviewers evaluate candidates against the same expectations rather than relying on different interpretations.

Can candidates reschedule an interview without emailing the recruiter?

Yes. Picktime can include rescheduling links in booking confirmation emails, allowing candidates to change their booking according to the rescheduling rules you set. You can also control how close to the interview a candidate is allowed to make a change.

Can I use Picktime for virtual interviews?

Yes. Picktime supports video meeting integrations, including Google Meet and Zoom, for online interviews. Meeting details can be connected with the scheduled interview so candidates have the information they need to join remotely.

Can we collect candidate information when they schedule an interview?

Yes. Picktime's intake forms let you collect relevant information from candidates when they book an interview. Their answers are saved with the appointment so your recruiting team can review them before the interview.

Get interviews onto the calendar without the back-and-forth.

Set interviewer availability, share your Picktime Booking Page, and let candidates choose an interview time that works for them. Get started with Picktime.