Back-to-back interviews can lead to delays, stress, and missed context. Buffer time creates intentional gaps between interviews, giving interviewers time to prepare, wrap up notes, and transition between meetings.
Add buffer time to a scheduling link
Navigate to your scheduling links by clicking your initials in the top right-hand corner of any page of Greenhouse. Click Scheduling links on the left side panel.
Create a new link, or edit an existing one.
To add buffer time, click the checkbox for Add buffer time around meetings. From the dropdown, select how many minutes of buffer time you need before or after the interview, or both.
In order to prevent back-to-back meetings, the selected buffer time will be applied to any meeting booked with the link. Only time slots that can accomodate this buffer time will be shown on the calendar when the recipient is scheduling using the link.
Add buffer time to a self-schedule request
Buffer time can also be added to a self-schedule request to protect interviewers from back-to-back meetings.
When sending a self-schedule request, scroll to the Add buffer time around this interview checkbox underneath the calendar settings.
Choose how much buffer time you need before, after, or on either end of the interview.
The candidate will only be able to select times from the calendar that account for buffer time.