Plan: All plans
Role: Admin ✧ Owner ✧ IT manager
Zinc transforms reference checks from a manual task into a seamless, automated step in your hiring process.
Save time with automated reference requests
Gain deeper insights through structured, verified feedback
Improve consistency across all reference checks
💡Learn more about working with assessment apps.
Configure the integration
In Recruit, from your avatar at the top right, select Settings > Process > Integrations.
Click Integrate and then Copy API key link to save your Recruit credential token to your clipboard.
Go to your Zincwork.com account page, click your name in the bottom left-hand corner, and click Add API key to paste the Recruit API Key.
Click Save.
Back in Recruit, click Activate.
Add Zinc to your workflow
👤 Role: All teammates with permission to edit positions
Before getting started
Make sure an Admin or Owner role has configured the integration.
In Recruit, click on a position and navigate to the position’s workflow.
Add a new step or select an existing one.
Change the step type to Zinc.
Send reference questionnaire
Once the candidate reaches the Zinc step, select the reference questionnaire you would like them to take from the drop-down menu. Tests displayed here are created in Zinc.
Select the expiration date of the assessment. By default, the assessment is set to "Expire after 3 days." However, you also have the option to select "Never Expires" if you wish to keep it open indefinitely.
Click Start.
If you want the assessment to automatically start when a candidate reaches the step, turn on the Auto-start toggle.
📝 Note: If you don’t see the Auto-start option, the feature is not available for that assessment app.
View responses
Once a reference questionnaire is completed, candidates in the step will receive an email, and the step will automatically be marked as complete.
To view the feedback, click the Zinc step in the candidate's workflow, then click See on Zinc.
You can also choose to skip the Zinc step by clicking Mark as completed.
If the questionnaire is submitted after the step is marked complete, the links to the reference won’t be updated.
📝 Note: When a reference questionnaire is complete, it may take up to an hour to be updated in Recruit.
Have more questions? Contact us at support-ats@sparkhire.com