This update brings a more personal and polished feel to Recruit So Simple, with new avatars across records and dashboards, refreshed record pages, improved candidate tools, more flexible record overviews, and new reporting tools for administrators.
The main changes are:
- Avatars for candidates, clients, contacts and vacancies
- Refreshed record pages
- Improved Update CV and Merge pages
- Configurable record overview widgets
- Smarter candidate matching defaults
- Dashboard Recent Mentions filtering
- Data export security alerts
- Weekly Activity Report
Here is what has changed.
Avatars
Avatars are now available across Recruit So Simple, giving records and user activity a clearer visual identity.
Candidates, clients, contacts and vacancies can now appear with photo or initials-based avatars in record headers, dashboards, grids and quick previews. This makes busy areas of the system easier to scan, especially when moving between records or reviewing dashboard activity.
Profile photo upload has also been improved. The new avatar editor lets you pan and zoom before saving, so photos can be cropped more accurately. The image is prepared in the browser before upload, helping keep the saved avatar consistent and lightweight.
Refreshed record pages
Candidate, client, contact and vacancy records have been updated with a cleaner layout across their main pages.
Details, documents, employment, vacancies, contacts, sites and sharing pages now follow the newer Recruit So Simple interface style. The result is a more consistent record experience, with clearer page structure, improved spacing and a shared mini-header that keeps the current record context visible as you work.
This is especially useful when moving between different sections of a record, such as checking a candidate’s documents, reviewing client contacts or updating vacancy details.
Improved Update CV and Merge pages
The Update CV and Merge pages have also been brought into the refreshed record-page design.
Update CV now has a clearer layout for reviewing the current CV, AI summary and extracted history information. It also works better on smaller screens, with the preview and summary areas stacking neatly on mobile instead of overflowing the page.
The Merge page has been updated to match the same style, making record clean-up feel more consistent with the rest of the candidate and record management workflow.
Configurable record overview widgets
Record overview pages can now support configurable widgets.
The first widgets include a CV Summary widget and a Timeline widget. Users can arrange the overview around the information they use most, helping each person keep the most relevant record details closer to hand.
The Timeline widget is optional and switched off by default, so teams can enable it only where it is useful.
Smarter candidate matching defaults
Candidate Matching now starts with more practical location defaults.
For new matching views, Recruit So Simple prioritises candidates within 50 miles and in the same country. This gives recruiters a more focused starting point while still allowing the filters to be changed when a wider search is needed.
Saved matching preferences for a vacancy are still respected, so existing vacancy-specific settings continue to behave as expected.
Dashboard Recent Mentions filtering
The Recent Mentions dashboard widget now gives managers more control over what they are reviewing.
The widget can now filter by the person who wrote the mention or by the user who was mentioned. This helps managers find activity involving a particular consultant or team, whether they want to review what someone has written or where someone has been brought into a conversation.
Data export security alerts
Administrators can now enable email alerts when data is exported from an account.
Selected active administrators receive a notification showing who exported data, what was exported, when it happened and the IP address used. The alert covers the main export routes, including grids, vacancy pipeline exports, candidate groups, search results, reports, document send history and full-account data exports.
This gives account administrators better visibility when information leaves the system.
Weekly Activity Report
Administrators can now receive a weekly email summary of account security activity.
The report covers the previous seven days and includes successful logins, failed or blocked login attempts, data exports and whether two-factor authentication is enabled for each user. It is designed to give account owners and managers a regular overview of important user and security activity without needing to check the system log manually.
Reports settings
The new reporting controls are grouped under a dedicated Reports section in System Settings.
This keeps the Weekly Activity Report and Data Export Security Alerts together, while still respecting the existing permissions for each feature.