In this article:
- Localization Improvements
- Quality Improvements
- Organization Account Purpose and Status
- Writing Assessment
- Candidate Feedback Report Revamp
- Candidate Invitation: Bulk Invite
Localization Improvements
Type: Improvements
For: Candidates
Impacted area: Candidate Journey
Release date: Between 17-July-2026 and 14-Sept-2026, RELEASED
- System Checker: Updated System Checker messaging across supported languages to clarify device requirements and make them more inclusive for candidates.
- Video Interview: Expanded translation coverage for the Video Interview module in Danish, Norwegian, Polish, and Swedish, providing a fully localized candidate experience from setup through completion.
- Custom Competencies & Reports: Added support for French Canadian translations for custom competency frameworks, ensuring competency names, descriptions, and related report content are displayed consistently in localized candidate and recruiter reports.
- Writing Assessment Reports: Updated AI Detection messaging across supported languages, simplifying how AI-assisted writing analysis results are displayed and improving report clarity.
- Latin American Spanish Support for Spoken Language Assessments: Expanded the Spoken Language Assessment by adding support for Latin American Spanish in both Scripted and Spontaneous Speech modules. This enhancement lets organizations evaluate spoken Spanish proficiency using a language variant that better reflects the needs of Latin American candidates and customer-facing roles, creating a more localized candidate experience and broader language coverage across assessments.
Quality Improvements
Type: Improvements
For: Candidates, Recruiters, Admins
Impacted area: Candidate Journey, Recruiter Journey, Integrations
Release date: Between 17-July-2026 and 14-Sept-2026, RELEASED
- Candidate Data & Integrations: Improved resend processing to ensure updated candidate information is correctly recognized and included when applications are resent.
- Assessment Monitoring: Restored consistent visibility of proctoring and focus-detection results, ensuring recruiters can reliably review candidate assessment activity.
- Content Pages: Improved candidate journey handling for content modules, ensuring consecutive content pages display correctly and are no longer skipped.
- Location Management: Improved reliability of location selection and navigation, ensuring locations can be viewed, managed, and selected consistently throughout the hiring process.
- Reports & Candidate Feedback: Enhanced report delivery controls to ensure candidates and hiring teams receive the correct report versions and content based on account configuration.
- Reports Hub: Improved formatting and presentation of assessment results, providing a cleaner and more readable reporting experience.
- Candidate Management: Improved status synchronization and status management workflows, ensuring candidate statuses remain accurate and can be updated consistently across the platform.
- Candidate Lists: Enhanced status update options for recruiters, making candidate progression easier to manage directly from candidate lists.
- Virtual Interview: Improved reliability of video interview progression and recording workflows, reducing interruptions during candidate interviews.
- Email Templates: Increased reliability of template editing and saving, ensuring communication updates are applied consistently.
- Insights & Reporting: Improved reliability of vacancy filtering, scheduled dashboard delivery, and reporting workflows, making it easier to access and distribute recruitment insights.
- Assessment Experience: Improved candidate access and progress handling, resolving edge cases that could prevent candidates from continuing or completing assessments successfully.
- Assessment Localization: Improved consistency of language-specific assessment content and formatting, ensuring candidates receive the correct localized experience.
- Personality Print Norm Group: Following the July 15 norm update, we made further adjustments to the regional breakdowns to make them more specific. We also identified and fixed an issue affecting the Norm labels in the CDP and PDF reports. Reports generated between July 15 and September 11 may show inconsistent Norm labels.
Organization Account Purpose and Status
Type: Improvement
For: Organization Admins
Impacted area: Account Management
Release date: 24-July-2026 RELEASED
- Account purpose: Customer Production (Default), Customer Test, Customer Benchmarking, Harver Customer Demo, Harver Internal Test
- Account status: Active (Default) / Inactive / Paused
Writing Assessment
Type: New Feature
For: Candidates
Impacted area: Assessments
Release date: 23-July-2026 RELEASED
Clients can now evaluate candidates' written English proficiency directly within the Harver platform. Responses are automatically scored for Task Response, Vocabulary, Coherence, and Grammar, providing a CEFR level and overall percentage. AI answer detection helps identify AI-generated responses. Results are available on the Candidate Detail Page, in PDF reports, and within the Reports Hub.
For more details, please visit: https://knowledge.harver.com/hc/en-us/articles/49005654177681-Writing-Assessment-Module
Candidate Feedback Report Revamp
Type: Improvement
For: Recruiters
Impacted area: Candidate Experience
Release date: 24-July-2026 RELEASED
We've updated the Personality Print Candidate Feedback Report. Candidates now receive a personalized report showing their position across personality traits, along with descriptions and practical tips. The report is automatically delivered through completion emails and can also be viewed and shared directly from the platform.
For more details, please visit: https://knowledge.harver.com/hc/en-us/articles/41004050710033-Candidate-Feedback-Report
Candidate Invitation: Bulk Invite
Type: New Feature
For: Recruiters and administrators
Impacted area: Candidate Invitations
Release date: 27-July-2026 RELEASED
Inviting large groups of candidates or employees is now much faster. With Bulk Invite, you can now send hundreds of invitations at once, without repetitive data entry. Upload your list from a CSV file, review any flagged issues at a glance, and send when you're ready.
For more details, please visit: https://knowledge.harver.com/hc/en-us/articles/49006919708817-Bulk-Candidate-Invite