August 2025

This month, we’re unveiling a brand-new Insights section within Task Management Initiatives  — giving you a clear, visual way to track progress, compare results, and showcase impact at a glance. Say goodbye to static lists and hello to dynamic insights that make decision-making faster and easier.

And that’s just the start. Our latest product updates are designed to supercharge your workflows and give you greater control over key processes - from a completely redesigned recruitment stage that puts all the tools you need at your fingertips, to new on/offboarding capabilities, improved time off management, enhanced employee profiles, and smarter task statuses.

Plus, you can now stay on top of your time off requests on the go with a new mobile approvals tracker right on the Spark app home page.

Every update is built to make your work easier, faster, and more intuitive.

New features and Enhancements

Task Management: Insights Section

We’ve added a brand-new Insights section that gives you a clear, visual overview of your Task Management initiatives. You can now explore a new dashboard with interactive charts and infographics that help you track the progress and status of all initiatives at a glance.

HIRE

Enhanced Recruitment Stages: New Tools & Layout

We've restructured the recruitment stage view into four distinct sections to give you expanded capabilities for managing candidate interactions:

• Associate Assignments: You can now request specific feedback from assigned associates, include custom text instructions, and attach relevant files directly within the assignment.
• Meetings: Schedule and manage meetings with candidates and associates.
• Surveys & Tests: Manually send surveys and tests to candidates on demand, selecting the specific type and template as needed.

Track Time Off Approvals from the Spark Mobile App Home Page

The Time Off widget now shows the full approval status right on the home page — see who’s approved and who’s pending without leaving the app.

News feed improvements for light and dark modes

We’ve improved the news feed in both light and dark modes for a smoother, more consistent experience. More updates coming soon!

Other Enhancements

Hiring Managers Can Progress Candidates Through Recruitment Stages

From now on, Hiring Managers will be able to progress candidates through the recruitment stages. This enhancement enables them to advance candidates to the next step in the hiring pipeline, making their involvement in the recruitment process more efficient.

STAFF

Enhanced On/Offboarding Tasks with Surveys

You can now incorporate surveys directly into your onboarding and offboarding tasks — a new way to gather feedback. We've introduced "Survey" as a new task type, allowing you to easily add a survey to any task list by selecting a pre-existing survey template. We've also improved the task management experience by replacing the old popups with an interactive sidebar. This new sidebar shows task details, including survey links.

Employee Profiles: Easily Manage Working Weeks

We've made it simpler to manage individual employee schedules! Users with the necessary edit permissions can now assign and update working week templates directly from each employee’s profile.

SETTINGS

Time Off Management Enhancements

We’ve added new controls to improve time off management. These include separate minimum and maximum future date limits for employee requests and manager-reported time off, a past date limit for reporting time off, and a new field to define the maximum number of days allowed per request.

TASK MANAGEMENT

Introducing Initiative Statuses 

You can now see the status of each initiative at a glance. This gives you a clear, real-time view of progress, enabling you to manage and prioritize tasks more effectively.

Bug Fixes

HIRE

Candidate → Recruitment Stage

Missing Leave Feedback Button for Previously Created Assignments.

PERFORM

KPIs → Scoring

The "Show Employees without Assigned KPIs" filter does not affect exported data.

GENERAL

Applicant notifications are sent in the system default language instead of the company's language.