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Assessment
5 days ago

Assessment API Updates - April 26, 2026

Highlights

  • 🕵️‍♂️ SuccessFactors Background Check Support: Our SuccessFactors integration now supports the Background Check module. You can create background check orders, sync packages, and receive results directly within SuccessFactors workflows, streamlining your screening process.
  • ✍️ Greenhouse Custom Field for Results: We've added a new optional mode for Greenhouse that writes assessment results (score and URL) to custom fields on the application. This provides more flexible ways to display results to recruiters inside Greenhouse.

Other Updates

  • ⚙️ Greenhouse: A new setting allows you to control whether to use Kombo's internal package ID or your own origin ID when communicating with partners, offering greater flexibility.
  • 🔒 Improved PII Redaction: We've enhanced our logging to redact personally identifiable information (like name and email) from assessment order creation logs to better protect candidate privacy.
  • 🕵️ Audit Logging: We now create an audit log event when the Assessment UI is accessed for a linked account, providing better visibility into usage.
  • 🔐 Jobvite: The connection flow now includes permission testing for the assessment integration to ensure a smoother setup.
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Assessment
2 weeks ago

Assessment API Updates - April 12, 2026

Highlights

  • 📦 Flexible Order Processing: We've improved how assessment orders are handled. Previously rejected orders can now be re-opened and processed again if they are sent by the ATS a second time. This provides more flexibility for workflows where orders might be initially rejected and then corrected.

Other Updates

  • 🔐 API Schema Update: The hiring_team_roles field for assessment orders is now strictly limited to RECRUITER and HIRING_MANAGER.
  • 🛂 Workday: We've added more comprehensive permission checks during setup to ensure the integration has the necessary access to fetch worker data for assessments and background checks.
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Assessment
3 weeks ago

Assessment API Updates - April 5, 2026

Highlights

  • 🚀 New `GET /assessment/orders` Endpoint: We've launched a new, more powerful endpoint for fetching assessment and background check orders. It supports cursor-based pagination and filtering by status, IDs, or creation date. The previous `/assessment/orders/open` endpoint is now deprecated.

Other Updates

  • ✍️ More Job Context: We've added support for syncing `job_code` and `description` to the assessment order for several integrations, including Ashby, Bullhorn (description only), Jobylon, and Oracle Recruiting.
  • 📎 Jobvite: Assessment results can now be written back to three separate custom fields in Jobvite (score, link, detailed results), offering a more structured way to display results.
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Assessment
a month ago

Assessment API Updates - March 29, 2026

Highlights

  • 📊 Job Context Fields Added to Assessment Orders: To provide your assessment tools with more context, we've extended the Assessment Order model to include job_code and description. This update is supported across numerous ATS integrations, including Greenhouse, Lever, Recruitee, SmartRecruiters, SuccessFactors, Teamtailor, UKG Pro, Workday, and Jobvite.

Breaking Changes

  • ❗ Assessment Order Schema Update: To ensure data quality, we've made several fields required in the assessment order payload. Specifically, candidate.remote_id, candidate.first_name, candidate.last_name, application.remote_id, and job.location are now required. Please review your integration to ensure you are providing these fields.

Other Updates

  • The remote_id for hiring team members is now nullable to accommodate data from all systems.
  • SmartRecruiters: The candidate's phone number is now included in the assessment order payload.
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Assessment
a month ago

Assessment API Updates - March 8, 2026

Highlights

  • 👻 Support for Background Check Providers: You can now configure your assessment integration to identify as a "background check" or "hybrid" provider. This ensures that your packages are correctly categorized and that recruiters can trigger the right workflows inside ATSs like Workday and UKG Pro that differentiate between assessments and background checks.

Other Updates

  • 📄 Coverage Updates: We've updated our documentation to more accurately reflect feature support for Recruitee, Jobvite, and SmartRecruiters.
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Assessment
2 months ago

Assessment API Updates - March 1, 2026

Highlights

  • 📎 Workday: You can now upload attachments when updating background check results. This enhancement unblocks key workflows for background check providers.

Other Updates

  • Kombo Dashboard: The "Create Assessment Order" form is now dynamically scoped based on the integration's capabilities, preventing you from filling out unsupported fields. We've also published a new guide on how to use the Assessment UI in our documentation.
  • Recruitee: Added support for a `subtitle` remote field in the `update-assessment-result` action.
  • Teamtailor: A new integration setting allows you to group assessment result attributes into nested tables, improving how they are displayed inside Teamtailor.
  • Workday: Our background check sync is now more resilient; it will skip employees without an email address instead of failing. We've also improved how we resolve application IDs, which is critical for uploading result attachments.
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Assessment
2 months ago

Assessment API Updates - February 22, 2026

Updates

  • 🕵️ UKG Pro: You can now integrate with UKG Pro's native Background Check module. This allows you to create, send, and track the status of background check orders directly through the Kombo API.
  • 📚 Our documentation has been updated to better clarify that the Assessment API supports workflows for both assessments and background checks.
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Assessment
2 months ago

Assessment API Updates - February 15, 2026

Updates

  • 📎 Eightfold: Assessment results can now include an attachment URL, allowing you to link directly to detailed reports.
  • 🔐 Teamtailor: We've enhanced authentication to support JWTs provided by custom activation forms. We also added new partner configuration settings to provide more flexibility during migrations.
  • 📬 Workday: Email parsing for background check orders is now more robust, prioritizing the candidate's work email to ensure reliable communication.
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Assessment
2 months ago

Assessment API Updates - February 8, 2026

Highlights

  • 🚀 New Jobvite Integration: You can now integrate with Jobvite for assessments. This allows your customers to trigger assessments from a Jobvite workflow and enables you to write results back to custom fields on the candidate's profile.

Other Updates

  • 🤫 Workday: We've improved the settings UI for employee background check permissions.
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Assessment
2 months ago

Assessment API Updates - January 26 - February 1, 2026

Updates

  • 🛠️ Teamtailor: The connection guide for our Teamtailor assessment integration has been updated to make the setup process clearer for your customers.
  • ⚙️ Connection Flow: Improved the setup flow for assessment integrations to more accurately reflect the connection status immediately upon completion.
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