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Your calendar connection and available hours decide what times Staffer can offer for an interview, both when you schedule one yourself and when a candidate picks their own slot.

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Calendar settings

Go to Settings → Account → Calendar. Google Calendar shows Connected, with who you’re connected as and a Disconnect button, or a Connect button if you haven’t. Its description: “Creates events on your Google Calendar with a Google Meet link.” Connecting is optional. See Interviews and scheduling for what happens without it. Microsoft Outlook can’t be connected. To use an Outlook calendar, add it as a calendar link. Share a calendar link adds a read-only feed instead: paste an iCal URL, add an optional Label and click Add feed. Staffer checks each feed about every 15 minutes. Click Sync now on a feed to check it straight away. Use this for a calendar Staffer can’t connect to, such as Outlook. Available hours sets one row per weekday, each either Not available or one or more start and end times, with Add hours for a second range on the same day.
If every day is set to Not available, the default, Staffer treats you as available at any hour, except when your calendar shows you’re busy. Once you add hours to any day, Staffer only offers times inside the hours you’ve set.
Timezone sets the time zone for your available hours. It starts as your browser’s time zone, and daylight saving is handled for you. You can use Google Calendar and iCal feeds together. Conflict checks, the candidate slot picker and your Calendar page use all of them.

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The Calendar page

In the sidebar, Calendar shows your schedule as a week or month grid.
  • Today jumps back to the current date, and the ‹ › arrows step through the range shown in the header.
  • Week and Month switch views.
  • Filter narrows what’s shown by member (only you, by default), by event type (Internal (interviews) or External (calendar)) and by job.
What you’ll see:
  • Interview: a Staffer-scheduled interview step.
  • External event: a busy block from your Google Calendar or an iCal feed.
  • Outside hours: stripes over time outside your available hours. If you haven’t set any hours, there are no stripes.
Click an Interview event to see the job and candidate, the time, the location for in-person interviews, a Join button, the attendees and the agenda. Add to calendar adds a personal copy to your Google Calendar. View step opens the candidate’s Process tab. The accepted and pending labels on attendees don’t come from Google. The organizer always shows accepted and everyone else shows pending. You can’t open external events.

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Common questions

No. Without one, Staffer schedules from a shared account and still adds you as an attendee.
Staffer treats you as available at any time, except when a connected calendar or iCal feed shows you’re busy.
Yes. Staffer checks your Google Calendar and all your iCal feeds together.
The label doesn’t come from Google. The organizer always shows accepted and everyone else shows pending, whatever they did.

Interviews and scheduling

Set up an Interview step and see how the slot picker uses your hours.

Your account

The rest of your personal settings: profile, preferences, notifications and signature.