Microsoft Teams Calls vs Ashby

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.

Slack brings teams together to speed up collaboration, but some conversations are simply more efficient face-to-face. With the Microsoft Teams Calls app, it’s easy to quickly launch a Teams video call right in Slack, seamlessly moving from discussions to face-to-face calls. Start a Teams video call right from Slack Launch a call in Slack with the /teams-calls slash command. Before joining, get a quick glance at who’s already on the call and when the call kicked off. Jump from Slack straight into a meeting Gone are the days of fumbling for meeting links—join Teams meetings directly from calendar reminders in Slack, using the Outlook or Google Calendar apps. Customize call settings for your team Set Microsoft Teams Calls as your default calling provider, so anyone can start a video call in Teams with a quick click of the phone button in Slack.