Additional interviewer availability lets you open extra, recurring bookable time for an interviewer on top of their normal calendar — useful when soft blocks like focus time make a calendar look fuller than it really is.

Why it matters

• You surface more interview slots without asking interviewers to delete calendar blocks.
• You never disrupt real meetings — additional slots only add time.
• Recruiters can open time on an interviewer's behalf, and interviewers keep control of their own windows.

How it works

Adding additional availability

Each additional-availability is a recurring time block made up of:

• A start and end date
• One or more days of the week
• A start and end time
• A timezone

For example: "Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:00 PM–4:00 PM, June 3 through June 28, in Pacific time" — a window that aligns with the interviewer's usual focus-time block but which they are happy to give up for a candidate.

Who can add an additional availability

• Recruiters and schedulers can add, edit, and additional availability for any interviewer they schedule for.
  • Scheduling Center > Manage Interviewers > Interviewer availability
  • Scheduling Wizard > Interviewers Menu > Interviewer availability
• Interviewers can add, edit, and remove their own windows directly from* Account > My calendar > My Interview Availability > Add availability beyond your calendar*

What candidates see

Candidates do not see any change in the scheduling experience. Times created through Additional Interviewer Availability appear alongside the interviewer’s standard available times. Candidates do not see whether a time came from standard calendar availability or additional availability.

What interviewers see

• *Notifications by Email: *Interviewers receive a configurable email notification detailing the date range, days, times, and timezone whenever a recruiter adds or updates availability on their behalf (enabled by default). Notifications are not sent when interviewers create their own availability.
• *Calendar Integration: *If calendar blocks are active, a tentative event is added to the interviewer's connected calendar to display reserved interview times. These blocks are purely informational, so modifying them will not alter the saved additional availability in Eightfold.
• *Self-Created Availability: *When an interviewer sets up additional availability for themselves, no automated email notification is triggered.

Where it applies

• Let Candidate Choose (LCC) - the primary use case. Additional slots surface as extra bookable slots in the candidate's scheduling link.
• Scheduler - driven manual scheduling - additional slots are visible to schedulers when picking times on a candidate's behalf.

FAQs

Do additional slots override my real meetings?

Yes, even if there is a real meeting and if it is overridden it will be visible as free for interviews.

Can I add availability for someone else?

Recruiters and schedulers can add windows for interviewers they schedule; interviewers can add their own.

Will the interviewer know I added a window?

Yes, if email notifications are on and you added it on their behalf.

What happens when an interview is cancelled? \ The time can become available again for another candidate, provided it still meets the applicable availability and scheduling rules.

What happens if the interviewer deletes or declines the calendar block? \ The calendar block is informational only and does not control the interviewer’s additional availability in Eightfold. Deleting or declining the calendar block will not remove or change the availability. To update or remove the additional availability, the interviewer must make the change directly in Eightfold.