Zoho Recruit

Zoho Recruit is an end-to-end applicant tracking system (ATS) and recruitment CRM for staffing agencies, corporate HR teams, and recruiters, covering job posting, candidate sourcing, interview scheduling, and hiring workflows. The Zoho Recruit v2 REST API exposes candidates, contacts, clients, jobs, interviews, and custom modules for full programmatic recruiting integrations. Authentication uses Zoho OAuth 2.0 with domain-specific endpoints (.com, .eu, .in, .com.au, .com.cn, .jp).

Zoho Recruit publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Candidates API, Job Openings API, Zoho Recruit API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Applicant Tracking, Recruiting, Recruitment CRM, Human Resources, and Zoho.

The Zoho Recruit catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Zoho Recruit’s developer surface includes documentation, pricing, signup flow, engineering blog, and 6 more developer resources.

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26.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 16/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 published contract

Applicant Tracking RecruitingRecruitment CRMHuman Resources Zoho

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Human Capital Management

BC-300

CandidatesJob Openings

POST /Candidates POST /Job_Openings

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 26.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 1.8 / 15

Access Clarity 1.6 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.8 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 16/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Employment & Payroll regime (on an ambiguous tag, where no other regime matched), so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author Ask about this →
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented) Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
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Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented) Ask about this →

11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 10.6 — up to +17.9 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Quality scores 46.5 — up to +13.4 composite points Ask about this →

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Zoho Recruit REST API v2

REST API for managing candidates, contacts, clients, job openings, interviews, attachments, notes, and custom modules in Zoho Recruit. Requests are authenticated with OAuth 2.0 ...

Zoho Recruit Candidates API

The Candidates API from Zoho Recruit — 1 operation(s) for candidates.

Zoho Recruit Job Openings API

The Job Openings API from Zoho Recruit — 1 operation(s) for job openings.

Zoho Recruit Zoho Recruit API

The Zoho Recruit API API from Zoho Recruit — 1 operation(s) for zoho recruit api.

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Zoho Recruit Candidates API

OPEN COLLECTION

Zoho Recruit Job Openings API

OPEN COLLECTION

Zoho Recruit Zoho Recruit API API

OPEN COLLECTION

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Zoho Recruit API Rules

33 rules · 31 error-severity 1 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Zoho Recruit Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Zoho Recruit Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup

Signup

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: zoho-recruit
name: Zoho Recruit
description: Zoho Recruit is an end-to-end applicant tracking system (ATS) and recruitment CRM for staffing agencies, corporate
  HR teams, and recruiters, covering job posting, candidate sourcing, interview scheduling, and hiring workflows. The Zoho
  Recruit v2 REST API exposes candidates, contacts, clients, jobs, interviews, and custom modules for full programmatic recruiting
  integrations. Authentication uses Zoho OAuth 2.0 with domain-specific endpoints (.com, .eu, .in, .com.au, .com.cn, .jp).
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/zoho-recruit.png
tags:
- Applicant Tracking
- Recruiting
- Recruitment CRM
- Human Resources
- Zoho
tags_raw:
- Applicant Tracking System
- ATS
- Recruiting
- Recruitment CRM
- HR
- Zoho
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zoho-recruit/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-09-16'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: zoho-recruit:rest-api-v2
  name: Zoho Recruit REST API v2
  description: REST API for managing candidates, contacts, clients, job openings, interviews, attachments, notes, and custom
    modules in Zoho Recruit. Requests are authenticated with OAuth 2.0 tokens issued by the domain-specific Zoho Accounts
    service.
  humanURL: https://www.zoho.com/recruit/developer-guide/apiv2/
  baseURL: https://recruit.zoho.com/recruit/v2
  tags:
  - Applicant Tracking
  - Recruiting
  - Candidates
  - OAuth
  - Authentication
  tags_raw:
  - Applicant Tracking System
  - Recruiting
  - Candidates
  - OAuth 2.0
  - ATS
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.zoho.com/recruit/developer-guide/apiv2/
  - type: OAuth Overview
    url: https://www.zoho.com/recruit/developer-guide/apiv2/oauth-overview.html
  - type: ReleaseNotes
    url: https://www.zoho.com/recruit/developer-guide/apiv2/whats-new.html
- aid: zoho-recruit:zoho-recruit-candidates-api
  name: Zoho Recruit Candidates API
  description: The Candidates API from Zoho Recruit — 1 operation(s) for candidates.
  humanURL: https://www.zoho.com/recruit/developer-guide/apiv2/
  baseURL: https://recruit.zoho.com/recruit/v2
  tags:
  - Candidates
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zoho-recruit-candidates-api-openapi.yml
- aid: zoho-recruit:zoho-recruit-job-openings-api
  name: Zoho Recruit Job Openings API
  description: The Job Openings API from Zoho Recruit — 1 operation(s) for job openings.
  humanURL: https://www.zoho.com/recruit/developer-guide/apiv2/
  baseURL: https://recruit.zoho.com/recruit/v2
  tags:
  - Job Postings
  tags_raw:
  - Job Openings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zoho-recruit-job-openings-api-openapi.yml
- aid: zoho-recruit:zoho-recruit-zoho-recruit-api-api
  name: Zoho Recruit Zoho Recruit API
  description: The Zoho Recruit API API from Zoho Recruit — 1 operation(s) for zoho recruit api.
  humanURL: https://www.zoho.com/recruit/developer-guide/apiv2/
  baseURL: https://recruit.zoho.com/recruit/v2
  tags:
  - Zoho Recruit API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zoho-recruit-zoho-recruit-api-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/zoho-recruit-capability-edges.yml
  name: Zoho Recruit Business Capability Map
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/zoho-recruit-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/zoho-recruit-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/zoho
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zohorecruit
- type: Website
  url: https://www.zoho.com/recruit/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.zoho.com/recruit/developer-guide/apiv2/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.zoho.com/recruit/zoho-recruit-pricing.html
- type: Signup
  url: https://www.zoho.com/recruit/signup.html
- url: https://www.zoho.com/recruit/blog/feed/
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: zoho
x-relationship: product

Zoho Recruit API — frequently asked questions

Does Zoho Recruit have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Zoho Recruit, including Zoho Recruit REST API v2, Zoho Recruit Candidates API and Zoho Recruit Job Openings API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Zoho Recruit API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Zoho Recruit, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Zoho Recruit API?

Zoho Recruit uses bearer-token authentication.

Is the Zoho Recruit API ready for AI agents?

Zoho Recruit has a Kin Score of 26.3 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 15.5 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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