What’s New in iCIMS This Spring
A practical breakdown of everything shipping in the Spring 2026 release, from hiring automation to AI sourcing and career site upgrades.
The iCIMS Spring 2026 release is packed with updates across three core product areas. We pulled together the highlights so you can quickly find what matters most to your team. Pick a module below (or view them all) and dig in.
Core ATS improvements, new automation capabilities, and integration upgrades
- Products
- iCIMS ATS
- Default State
- Enabled for all customers
- Managed via
- Admin > Hiring Automation
Previously, almost all workflow status changes required someone to manually click through them. The limited automation that did exist (via event notifications) needed iCIMS Technical Support to build and maintain.
Now, user admins can set up automations themselves based on three trigger categories:
- Workflow status changed (recruiting workflow statuses only)
- Offer events (based on offer statuses)
- Interview events (scheduled, canceled, or rescheduled)
When one of those triggers fires, the system can automatically:
- Change a workflow status
- Send an email to relational and/or specific recipients
- Send a text to a candidate (US only, requires Text Engagement)
- Send an interview invitation based on a template
You can also apply a recruiting workflow search template to narrow which profiles the automation should affect.
The feature also ships with its own settings area (Admin > Hiring Automation > Settings) for configuring logos, reply addresses, email footers, and notification recipients. A log tab keeps 90 days of automation history so you can track what happened and when.
Interview Scheduling gets a solid round of quality-of-life improvements this release. Here’s what’s new:
- Multi-calendar support: You can now connect up to five calendar accounts (Microsoft or Google) and up to five Zoom accounts. Previously you were limited to just one of each.
- RSVP visibility: RSVP responses from interviewers and candidates (accept, decline, tentative) can now be emailed to designated recipients and are visible inside ATS in several places, including the Interview Scheduling Center and Application profiles.
- Resend invitations: If a candidate hasn’t responded to a self-scheduling invite, you can now resend it directly from the Interview Scheduling Center or Application profile Activity tab.
- Calendar view for rescheduling: Users can now use the calendar view when rescheduling interviews, making it easier to find available time slots and dodge conflicts.
- Improved text messaging: If your org has Text Engagement with 10DLC registration, interview scheduling texts now send from your associated number (instead of a random system number) and show up in the ATS Messages tab.
- Updated .ICS file: The calendar file now links to the candidate’s Application profile instead of their Global Person profile.
Two meaningful updates to interview feedback this spring:
- Feedback submission notifications: User admins can now enable automated notifications (via email and Microsoft Teams) when feedback forms are submitted. You pick who receives them, and recipients only get notified for candidates they’re associated with. Configure it via Admin > System Configuration > Workplace Collaboration Integration > iRecruiter Configurations.
- Archiving protection: Feedback forms tied to an Interview Scheduling template can no longer be accidentally archived. If someone tries, they’ll see a list of templates using that form and will need to remove it first. This prevents the broken-form errors that used to happen.
You can now add up to five links to the page footer of your mobile ATS career portal. This is great for terms of use, privacy notices, legal disclosures (like Impressum pages), and cookie preference links.
Links can be configured globally for all portals or individually per portal. Previously, this required a support ticket to iCIMS Technical Support.
- Default State
- Disabled by default
- Configure via
- Admin > System Configuration > Applicant Tracking > Mobile
User admins can now enable E.164 phone number validation on custom fields in ATS profiles and career portal pages. Just select “Phone – E.164 format” when creating the field.
If someone enters a number that doesn’t follow the E.164 format ([+] [Country code] [Phone number], max 15 digits), they’ll see an error. Previously, this validation was only available for standard fields.
If your team uses Prime Assessments with custom results, you can now map those custom result values directly to ATS recruiting workflow statuses. When a vendor sends back a custom result, the integration automatically moves the candidate to the right status.
Previously, auto-dispositioning could only be configured against iCIMS’ standard result ranges. Now you get much more precise control over how assessment outcomes translate into workflow actions.
Three updates that simplify how you activate and configure I-9 and E-Verify Turnkey integrations:
- New Hire Category selection: When using the New Hire Portal Task method, admins can now select one or more New Hire Category profiles during activation to control which onboarding tasks candidates see.
- Auto-created onboarding task: The system now automatically creates a default onboarding task configured for I-9/E-Verify and adds it to the selected New Hire Category profiles.
- Auto-unhide fields: The integration now automatically unhides required fields for selected user groups during activation. No more manually unhiding each one.
These changes apply to both new activations and existing integration configurations.
When new candidates are created in ATS through an Apply Network integration, you can now send them an automatic acknowledgement email. Previously, there was no way to notify candidates created through this channel.
- Default State
- Disabled by default
- Configure via
- Admin > System Configuration > Recruiter Marketplace > Configure Email Notifications
AI-powered sourcing, campaign improvements, and better access controls
Recruiter admins control access on a per-user-group basis. Once enabled, recruiters can activate the AI Sourcing Agent for any job, refine candidate criteria, customize the outreach email (which the agent drafts based on the job description), and run a search across your talent pool.
The agent returns a list of suggested candidates. From there, recruiters can review qualifications, select who to reach out to, and send invitation emails.
- Default State
- Disabled (requires AI Addendum agreement)
- Target Release
- By March 21, 2026
Users can now set a custom reply-to email address within automated campaigns. The default is now your organization’s configured reply-to address (instead of the campaign creator’s personal email), and you can override it per campaign.
This is a small change that can make a real difference for branding consistency and making sure replies land in the right inbox.
- Default State
- Enabled
- Target Release
- By March 21, 2026
Automated campaigns now work with private pipelines. Previously, you could only use public pipelines for campaign automation.
This is particularly useful when you need to keep certain candidate groups restricted, like an executive search or a confidential hiring initiative. Your own private pipelines will automatically show up as options when setting up Automated Campaigns.
- Default State
- Enabled
- Target Release
- By March 21, 2026
Recruiter admins now get granular control over who can do what with automated campaigns. You can now manage permissions for these specific actions per user group:
- Create campaigns
- Edit campaigns
- Start and stop campaigns
- Archive campaigns
- Duplicate campaigns
Configure these in Admin Settings > Access Control. Previously, anyone with access to the Automated Campaigns page could take any action on any campaign.
- Default State
- Enabled (matches existing permissions)
- Target Release
- By March 21, 2026
Career site CMS upgrades and Video Studio notification improvements
CMS editors and admins can add the widget to any page using the Add Content button and selecting “Global Map.” Colors, included locations, and region names are all configurable.
Works on both mobile and desktop. Previously, this kind of location-based job browsing required custom CSS and help from iCIMS Technical Support.
Padding for content containers can now be configured separately for mobile, tablet, and desktop views. Edit the padding in the Padding section while working on a content column in the CMS.
No more custom CSS hacks or support tickets to get your career site spacing looking right across devices.
The CMS now ships with a proper card container template, eliminating the need to manually build and style each card from scratch. The default template comes with an image component, rich text component, and a button component, and everything is fully editable.
You also get consistent visual alignment, customizable layout options, and hover animations out of the box. Add cards via the Add Content button and select “Card Container.”
Admin users can now opt into email notifications when a new or existing Video Studio submission needs review. You can also configure how many reminder emails go out to both admin and employee users.
Previously, reminder emails were only available for employees, and you couldn’t control the frequency.
- Default State
- Disabled (can be enabled by admins)
- Target Release
- By March 21, 2026
