Outlook Calendar vs Ashby

Let your team know when you're busy and keep your calendar top of mind with up-to-date reminders in Slack. Available for Office 365 Outlook Calendar. Use Outlook Calendar in Slack to: • Automatically sync your calendar to your Slack status to let your team know when you are in a meeting, out of the office, or working from home. • See a holistic view of your daily schedule from Slack. • Get notified when an event is starting soon, and join a Hangout, Zoom, Webex, or Microsoft Teams meeting directly from the calendar reminder in Slack. • RSVP directly to event invitations, get updated when an event’s details change, and change your response as needed. • Configure channel notifications for shared calendar events. Here are some details to bear in mind about status sync: • Your status will not include the name of the meeting that you’re attending. • You can remove or update your Slack status at any time – the Outlook Calendar app won’t override any status that you’ve set yourself. • Only events that you accept will trigger a status update in Slack. • Slack will only sync with the primary calendar for the Outlook account that you’ve connected. • If there are overlapping events on your calendar, Slack will set your status to match the event that’s longer or that starts earlier. Notes: • Outlook Calendar for Slack is only available for Office 365. The app is not supported for on-premise Microsoft Exchange customers. • On-premise SharePoint installations or Office 365 plans hosted on a Microsoft national cloud deployment (including Office 365 U.S. Government, Office 365 Germany, and Office 365 operated by 21Vianet in China) are not supported. This app is subject to the Slack integration terms & conditions.More ways to use Microsoft Outlook Calendar in SlackAutomate with Workflow BuilderWorkflow Builder* lets you transform everyday processes into automations, without writing a single line of code. Add third-party tools like Microsoft Outlook Calendar to workflows to manage work and processes from Slack, and use templates to get started quickly. Learn more about automations Templates available for Microsoft Outlook Calendar: New Microsoft Outlook calendar eventFill out a form in Slack to create a new Microsoft Outlook calendar event *Workflow Builder is only available on paid subscriptions

About Ashby's integration with Slack brings recruiting notifications, approvals, and conversational actions directly into Slack so your team can stay on top of hiring without leaving the app. Notifications and reminders The Ashby bot sends real-time updates to your team in Slack for candidate pipeline activities, mentions and replies, interviewer and task reminders, reporting alerts, and more. Ashby Assistant and custom agents You can also message the Ashby Assistant by starting a conversation directly in the Ashby app in your Slack workspace. If you've set up custom agents in Ashby, you can use them in the same conversation by referring to them by name and asking the Assistant to use them for your request. With the Assistant, you can: Take actions: Add notes on candidate profiles, advance, archive, or reject candidates, draft and send emails, look up candidate details, leave feedback, and search candidates and job postings among other actions. Confirm before anything runs: The Ashby Assistant previews emails, stage changes, notes, and other actions in Slack with confirm and reject buttons. Maintain old conversations by staying within a thread for context, or you can start fresh with a new top-level message. Keep the same permissions as you have within Ashby: Every action runs on your behalf, scoped to your role. Ashby MCP You can also connect to the Ashby MCP server and ask about your hiring directly in Slack. As with the Assistant, everything is scoped to what you can see in Ashby, and any action is previewed for your review before it runs. The examples below show common things you can ask, along with the underlying Ashby tools each one uses. Review pipelines: "Summarize our engineering pipeline and flag where candidates are stalling." get_job_pipeline — Returns pipeline metrics for one or more jobs, including per-stage application counts. filter_records — Finds applications, candidates, jobs, and offers using structured criteria. Prep for interviews and debriefs: "Build an interview brief for [Candidate], including prior feedback and open concerns." get_interview_details — Returns a detailed briefing for a specific interview, including candidate background and instructions. get_submitted_feedback — Retrieves the scorecard feedback you've already submitted for an application. Look up records: "Pull up the details on [Candidate]'s application." search_records_by_name — Resolves a candidate, job, or application name to its record. get_record_details — Fetches full details for jobs, applications, openings, offers, and more. Take actions: "Add a note to [Candidate] and move them to the onsite stage." add_note_to_candidate — Adds a note to a candidate's profile. change_application_stage — Moves an application to a different interview stage. Please note: This app includes AI-powered features that generate responses, summaries, and recommendations based on the information available to it. AI-generated content may be inaccurate and should be reviewed before use.