
This week’s release is all about making it easier to build culture and help you spend less time keeping hiring managers and your leadership team on the same page about the state of the talent pipeline. Let’s dive in!
📅 Support for generating a talent pipeline report
Time and time again we’ve seen HR leaders in growing startups need to keep everyone on the same page about the open roles and the candidates in the pipeline. Depending on your ATS (applicant tracking system) this information might be accessible to the HR leader, but not the rest of the team. Now Nova makes it easy to connect to any ATS and get an Excel file in a consistent format with all the details you need. Just tell Nova that you need a hiring pipeline report. You can even ask to get the pipeline every Monday morning.
🎂 Build culture, celebrate birthdays with the team

Based on early adopter feedback, we’ve added support for celebrating birthdays in addition to celebrating work anniversaries! Nova grabs this data from your HRIS (if connected) or Impact or even from an uploaded file - just ask Nova who has a birthday today. You can even ask Nova to share these on a regular schedule into common slack channels or email aliases. Customer feedback for the win! 💪
🗂️ Upload a file, get your birthdays and workiversaries
One thing that has become increasingly clear over the past two weeks of Nova’s launch is that HR leaders have a myriad of formats and myriad of data stores for the different things they’re keeping track of. We’re even seeing cases of multiple HRIS setups. To help make that just a little bit easier you can now share a list of birthdays or anniversaries in a CSV or Excel file.
To get started, create an Excel file with two worksheets (if you want to share both!) with the following format:
Employee | Start Date (or put Birthday here) |
---|---|
Name 1 | 3/1/2022 |
Name 2 | 6/14/1975 |
Save the file, then just tell Nova you want to share a file and provide the saved file. Once the file has been uploaded it’s easy to get Nova to use the file for workiversaries or birthdays - just ask:
who has a workiversary today? use file team_birthday_and_anniversaries.xlsx
Remember, you can always substitute workiversary for birthday. Happy celebrating!
🪲 Bug fixes and improvements
Sharing files often defaults to personal storage, not organization storage
The "this is taking too long" message doesn't get replaced
Thanks for all your interest in Nova - stay tuned for even more great enhancements.