In-house recruitment teams that run multiple hiring campaigns throughout the year need shared hiring calendars that can be reset cleanly between cycles. A calendar that carries forward the clutter of the previous campaign makes it harder to manage the current one.
Most in-house recruitment teams use one or more shared Google Calendars to coordinate interview scheduling across hiring managers, HR, and external partners. These calendars serve the team well during a campaign but accumulate rapidly. By the time a second campaign begins, the calendar from the first is still visible and getting in the way.
The alternative — deleting and recreating the calendar between cycles — means re-sharing with every hiring manager and resetting any interview scheduling integrations (such as Calendly, Greenhouse, or Lever calendar sync). This is unnecessary overhead that a simple event clear avoids.
The most efficient approach is to build calendar clearing into your standard end-of-campaign checklist:
Running this process after every campaign means you always start the next one with a clean calendar, and the process becomes routine rather than an occasional project.
Multiple campaigns running simultaneously? If your team runs overlapping campaigns (for example, engineering hiring and sales hiring at the same time), use separate calendars for each campaign rather than one shared calendar. This makes it easier to clear completed campaigns without affecting ongoing ones.