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Pausing and Unpausing Interviewers

Learn how to manage interviewer availability, including how to pause interviewers during time off and reinstate them when they return

Updated over 3 weeks ago

If an interviewer is going on vacation, leave, or will be unavailable for a period of time, you can temporarily remove them from scheduling in two ways:

🔹 Option 1: Set Their Daily Capacity to Zero

This is the cleanest way to pause someone:

  1. Go to Settings → Users

  2. Click the interviewer’s name

  3. Select Edit scheduling preferences

  4. Change Max interviews per day to 0

  5. Save

✅ Guide will exclude them from scheduling until you update this setting again.


🔹 Option 2: Have Them Block Their Calendar

If the interviewer is actively using their calendar, they can create an all-day event marked as Busy to block availability (e.g., “OOO – Vacation”).

Guide respects Google and Outlook calendar availability, so these blocks will prevent scheduling.


📅 Can I Pause Someone Until a Specific Date?

Guide doesn’t yet support setting interviewer-specific blocked dates (like “pause until June 30”), but the two options above achieve the same result manually.

For future automation or return dates, you may want to add a reminder to update their profile when they return.

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