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Korn Ferry Nimble Recruit Enhancements

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Make Hiring Faster, Smarter, and More Connected

As the leading provider of talent acquisition solutions, Korn Ferry is constantly enhancing our platforms to help clients stay ahead in a competitive hiring landscape. Our latest updates to Korn Ferry Nimble Recruit reflect that commitment—delivering smarter tools, deeper insights, and a more connected recruiting experience through the power of our integrated suite of AI agents. Our ongoing enhancements are part of our mission to empower clients with innovative technology that drives efficiency, improves decision-making, and delivers better hiring outcomes.

Changelog

Date of release: November 2025

Nimble Recruit Moves to Talent Suite

The Korn Ferry Talent Suite is a unified platform that connects people and business strategies across the entire talent lifecycle:

  • Centralized access to Nimble Recruit within the new Talent Suite
  • Access to all Korn Ferry solutions in one place, with one single sign on

Benefits: Built on Korn Ferry’s proprietary Success Profiles and backed by over 10B+ data points, the Talent Suite enables our teams to help Korn Ferry clients hire, develop, reward, and mobilize talent at scale through connected tools, shared data, and seamless user experiences.

AI Talent Pools

  • Leverages artificial intelligence and Elasticsearch to automatically build and maintain dynamic talent pools
  • Continuously updates candidate lists based on recruiter-defined criteria such as skills, location, and job title
  • Seamlessly integrates with existing filtering and tagging systems to support streamlined recruitment workflows

Benefits: Establishes a fully automated sourcing pipeline that ensures recruiters have ongoing access to fresh, high-quality candidates. By removing the need for manual updates, it significantly improves sourcing efficiency and enables faster, more targeted talent engagement.

Support Client Licenses and Access within Nimble Recruit

Extends access to include client-side internal recruiters, enabling them to operate alongside Korn Ferry RPO users within a unified platform:

  • Introduces shared visibility across requisitions and candidate pipelines, with robust role-based access controls to maintain data integrity and user permissions

Benefits: Streamlines recruitment operations by enabling users to work within a single, cohesive environment. Reduces technology expenditure, enhances transparency, and promotes seamless collaboration between client stakeholders and Korn Ferry teams.

Optimize your recruitment with a scalable, modular, data-backed RPO technology solution and experience the benefits of Korn Ferry Nimble Recruit today.

Archive

Release Date: August 2025

AI Co-Pilot for Job Calibration

  • Effortlessly generate market-aligned job descriptions and optimised job titles using AI
  • Leverages job title, location, Success Profile, and company data
  • Ensures roles resonate with top talent by aligning with market expectations and candidate motivations

Benefits: Boosts job appeal, reduces manual effort, and drives stronger candidate engagement from the start. Helps recruiters craft compelling, targeted roles that attract the right talent faster.

UI Update to Project Field in KFNR

  • The "Project" field in KFNR is now renamed to “Folders”
  • Designed to be more client-specific and intuitive for delivery teams
  • Enables better candidate organisation, streamlined workflows, and improved alignment with client needs

Benefits: Simplifies candidate tracking, enhances usability, and supports more tailored project structures.

Release Date: May 2025

Enhanced Stages & Statuses in Nimble Recruit 

  • Introduced three-tier system: stages, statuses, and sub statuses
  • Added one-to-one status mapping for real-time ATS syncing
  • Implemented sub statuses for internal tracking and analytics
  • Improved hiring workflow
  • Enabled flexible customization of sub statuses

Benefits: Provides better analytics and ATS synchronization, ensures consistent tracking, offers deeper insights, streamlines processes, and gives recruiters greater control and visibility.

Launch Nimble Recruit Enhanced Database

  • Access to 700M+ profiles with resumes and contact details
  • Enhanced searching with elasticsearch for real-time results
  • Provides deeper candidate insights with rich profiles

Benefits: Enhances sourcing and recruiter efficiency, facilitates faster and smarter talent search, delivers relevant candidate results quickly, and improves data-driven outreach decisions. Quickly identify top-fit candidates, prioritize outreach and next steps.

Improved Candidate Review and Jobs Dashboard

  • New candidate review modal accessible from any module
  • Quick actions for moving candidates into jobs or talent pools
  • Improved navigation and comparison between candidates
  • Jobs Dashboard enhancements showing key job details at a glance

Benefits: Enhanced interfaces and dashboards enable recruiters to act faster, stay organized, and make more informed decisions at every stage of the hiring process.

CRM Enhancements

  • Add candidates from the Job Page and Sourcing Page, or manually enter profiles
  • Filter candidates where they are in the hiring journey

Benefits: Streamlined candidate management, enhanced pipeline visibility, and improved efficiency in building and maintaining candidate pipelines.

Nimble Recruit Integration with Korn Ferry Select

  • Integrated Korn Ferry Select assessments with job requisitions
  • Enabled real-time assessment tracking within Nimble Recruit
  • Provided hiring manager reports and interview guides
  • Automated notifications for assessment completion

Benefits: Streamlines workflow, reduces manual effort, provides timely insights into candidate progress, supports smarter hiring decisions, and keeps recruiters and hiring managers informed.

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