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.

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.

Highlights

• 📎 Greenhouse Passthrough for Harvest V2: The passthrough API for Greenhouse now supports Harvest API v2, allowing you to access newer assessment-related endpoints not available in v1.
• 🗺️ Improved Documentation: We've enhanced our Assessment API documentation with a new visual flowchart of the entire assessment order process and clearer instructions for handling webhooks.

Updates

• ✅ Workday: We now support processing background check orders that are initiated for existing employees, in addition to new candidates.
• ⚙️ Ashby: The setup instructions in the dashboard have been updated to clarify the partner credentialing process.

Highlights

• 🚀 New Bullhorn Assessment Integration: We've launched a new integration with Bullhorn for assessments. Your customers can now order assessment packages and view results directly within Bullhorn's interface, embedded as a custom tab.

Other Updates

• 📊 Bullhorn & Eightfold: Added metadata to clarify which candidate invitation flows (manual trigger vs. bulk invite) are supported by each integration.
• ℹ️ Lever: The setup flow now includes clearer instructions to ensure the necessary "Candidate stage change" webhook is enabled in Lever.
• 🖥️ Dashboard UI: The assessment order details view in the dashboard now displays the order's `remote_id`, making it easier to cross-reference with the provider.

Updates

• 🐛 We've improved authentication error handling for more consistent and informative errors across the Assessment API.
• Introduced a new, more specific error code (CANDIDATE_EMAIL_MISSING) for when an assessment order is attempted for a candidate without an email address.
• UKG Pro: The in-app guidance for setting up a fast-track partnership has been updated with new instructions.
• Workday: To prevent errors, assessment orders are now automatically skipped for candidates who do not have an email address in Workday.

Highlights

• 🚀 Teamtailor Assessment Integration Overhaul: We've significantly improved our Teamtailor integration. It now features a new connection flow for API key authentication and offers expanded data coverage, including job location and candidate phone numbers, for a more seamless assessment workflow.

Other Updates

• 🔒 You can now redact Personal Identifiable Information (PII) from assessment orders directly from the Kombo dashboard for improved data privacy.
• ⚙️ Workday: We added a new tool in the dashboard to help you generate a CSV of your assessment packages, simplifying the setup process.
• 🐛 SmartRecruiters: Assessment result scores are now automatically rounded to the nearest integer to meet the provider's API requirements.

We're excited to share that Kombo now provides official server-side SDKs for TypeScript/JavaScript and Python! 🎉

Why use our SDKs?

Our official SDKs are the recommended way to implement Kombo and offer several key advantages:

• ✨ Ergonomic and type-safe API interactions
• 🔄 Always up to date with the latest Kombo API changes
• 💡 Auto-completion and detailed types for inputs and outputs
• 🛡️ Avoid common pitfalls with built-in best practices

Get Started

TypeScript/JavaScript

npm install @kombo-api/sdk

📦 npm | 💻 GitHub

Python

pip install kombo

📦 PyPI | 💻 GitHub

Example Usage

import { Kombo } from '@kombo-api/sdk'

const kombo = new Kombo({
  api_key: process.env.KOMBO_API_KEY,
  integration_id: 'workday:HWUTwvyx2wLoSUHphiWVrp28',
})

const result = await kombo.hris.getEmployees()

Migrating from Custom Code?

If you're currently using custom code or self-built solutions to interact with Kombo, now is a great time to migrate! Our SDKs will save you time and reduce maintenance overhead. We've created an LLM-friendly migration prompt to help automate the process. Check out our documentation for details.

More server-side SDKs are planned. Have a specific tech stack in mind? Please reach out!

Highlights

• 🚀 New Eightfold Assessment Integration: We are excited to announce our new integration with Eightfold for assessments, expanding our ecosystem of supported partners.
• ⚙️ Asynchronous Webhooks for Orders: You can now configure the assessment:order-received webhook to be delivered asynchronously. This helps prevent timeouts on your end for long-running processes and improves the reliability of order creation.

Other Updates

• SuccessFactors: You can now generate a pre-filled CSV template for assessment packages directly from the integration's settings page in the Kombo dashboard, simplifying the setup process for your customers.

Highlights

• 📎 SAP SuccessFactors: Added a new setting to forward the assessment URL directly to SuccessFactors. This allows your customers to use their own SuccessFactors templates to send assessment invitations to candidates.