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HiBob

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Velocity6.3

Modern HR platform for global workforce management

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HiBob replaces its CV summarizer with a scoring model recruiters have to configure themselves.

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◆Current state
Bob's developer changelog is a steady stream of Public API surface: Skills, Employer, Time Off calendars, Goals, and Hiring search endpoints, most of them adding read or sync paths for external systems. Against that background, two entries stand out — the MCP server moving to OAuth-based user access with an expanded toolset, and AI CV Matching replacing the previous AI CV Summary with an explainable match score built on criteria the recruiter defines.
◆Where it's heading
HiBob is turning Bob into a system other software reads from and writes to, rather than a destination product. The API additions make every module — skills, employer entities, time off, hiring — reachable from outside, and the OAuth MCP server extends the same access to AI tools under user-scoped permissions. The CV change shows where the AI investment is aimed: not at generating text for recruiters to read, but at producing structured judgments they can be asked to justify.
◆Prediction
Expect the criteria behind CV Matching to become configurable through the Hiring API the same way the module itself was, and for the remaining Bob modules without public endpoints to follow Skills and Employer into the API.

◆Recent moves

  1. 5d ago

    Hiring API: New AI CV Matching score in Applications

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    Bob Hiring swaps a generative CV summary for a configurable, explainable match score against recruiter-defined criteria. It moves the AI from describing candidates to ranking them, which is a different product and a different liability.

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  2. 6d ago

    New Bob Skills API: Push and sync skills into Bob

    The Skills module gets a full CRUD and search API, so skills data can be pushed into Bob from an external system of record. It makes the skills taxonomy something other tools can own rather than something maintained by hand in Bob.

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  3. 21d ago

    Time off API: Find employee calendars

    A new endpoint exposes which holiday calendar each employee is assigned. Small, but it closes a gap that made time-off data hard to interpret correctly outside Bob.

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  4. 21d ago

    Employer API: now available in the Public API

    Employer and work-location entity data becomes retrievable through the Public API. Another Bob section made syncable, continuing the pattern of exposing every module to external systems.

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  5. 27d ago

    Time Off API: policyTypeCustomName on get request details

    A single field added to one time-off response payload. Routine API maintenance.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Bob MCP Server: Now uses OAuth with expanded tools

    The Bob MCP server moves to OAuth-based user access with a wider set of tools, rolling out gradually. It puts AI-tool access to HR data under the same per-user permission model as the rest of the API rather than a shared credential.

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