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Creating Custom Interview Sessions

Learn all steps on how to create your own interview session. Discover the best practices and advanced features for a better user experience

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Written by Jozef Balaz
Updated over 9 months ago

Creating a new interview session with our tool is very simple. Just go to the Interviews page in the menu and click on the 'Create' button at the top right corner of the screen


Define Basic Details

Position Name - Name of this interview session (usually, a job role name is entered, like: Accountant)

Visibility - Choose if this session can be seen by everyone, or if it's hidden and can only be accessed with a specific link

Language - Define the language for your coaching session

Avatar - Choose one of our AI characters who will conduct your coaching session


Choose how you want to Create Your Interview

We provide 3 options for you to start creating your interview. These are regular questions asked during interviews for particular job roles

1. We provide ready-to-use question templates for many job positions. You can edit these templates, delete unnecessary questions, or add new ones according to your needs.

2. Let AI create interview questions for you. Simply input a brief summary of your job role and specify what personal qualities you believe a potential candidate needs to succeed in the interview. Learn more about the candidate expectation here

You also have the option to choose the tone of the interview, either casual or formal, and determine the number of questions that will be generated by AI

3. If you want, you can start making your questions from the scratch without any pre-set questions


Add a Cover Image and Fill Out Basic Details

Cover Image - Choose a picture for your job opening that will be shown on your careers page. You can use your own picture or pick one from our collection

Position Name - This is the name of the interview session that you defined in the first step. Here, you have an option to rename it if you wish

Job Position Code - You can create a special code of numbers and letters for this interview. This code can be used as a label for the interview and will be visible for users

Interview Available Until - Choose a definite date to close this job opening. Once you post your job interview, you won't be able to modify this date. When the selected date arrives, the interview will be marked as completed and won't be visible to the public. However, you can still access it using a direct link if necessary

Location - Put in the location of your office or your city to show others where you are based

Salary - You can share the potential pay range for the job you have available to attract the best candidates

Short Description - Here you can provide a short description of your job vacancy. It's displayed right under your job title and allows potential applicants to get a basic understanding of what the job entails

Long Description - Clearly explain all the details about the job vacancy and highlight the advantages your company offers. Sharing your company values and benefits can help attract potential candidates.

Note: Don't forget to save your changes so you don't lose any information!


Interview Setup - Managing Questions

To begin inserting your interview questions, just click the "Add/Edit" button, type in your question and click "Create". The new question will appear at the end of your interview. Just scroll down to find it

Now, click on the "Pen" Icon to start editing it. A new popup will appear with various settings. You can fully adjust your selected question here

Expected Duration - Input the ideal response time for a specific question in seconds. During the interview session, candidates' answers will be accompanied by a growing bar chart. This chart will show them when they should ideally finish their response.

Advanced Configurations and Rules for a Particular Question

Configuration

You can include certain Positive or Negative words in your questions. When the user says these words, the system will raise or lower their final score

You also have the option to record the answer for the selected question

Rules

You can set specific actions for different scenarios that could occur when the candidates respond to your question. Here are the conditions and actions that can be taken

Conditions:

  • Transcript text exact - If your question only needs a one-word answer, type in a certain word and our system will do a specific action

  • Transcript contains text - Put a particular word here. If a candidate says that word in their reply, our system will do a certain action

  • Speech not recognised - You can adjust our system so that, if it fails to recognise what is being spoken a certain number of times, it will perform a specific action

  • Number of words higher than - Input a particular number here. If candidate replies with more words than this number, our system will perform a certain action

  • Number of words lower than - Input a particular number here. If candidate replies with less words than this number, our system will perform a certain action.

  • None of the rules matched - You can set up multiple different rules for response of a selected question. If candidate's answer doesn't fit any of these rules, our system can take a particular action

Actions that can be taken:

  • Play Response Video - You can input a custom message text, and our AI Avatars will play a response message to candidate

  • Restart Step - The current question will start again and ask for another response

  • Go to Fail Page - Redirects candidate to a Fail page instantly

  • Go to Result Page - Redirects candidate to a Result page instantly


Additional Details and Configuration

This section shows the language used in your interview session, when it was created, and when it was last updated. You will be able to see how long the session lasts once you have published it

Visibility - Choose if this session can be seen by everyone, or if it's hidden and can only be accessed with a specific link

Speech Recognition Language - Currently, we support the English language with various country dialects. We are planning to include more languages soon

Candidate Expectation - specify what personal qualities you believe a potential candidate needs to succeed in the interview. Our system will give extra points if they meet these expectations during the session.
​Example: We need a friendly team leader with a strong focus on achieving goals to guide a team of 6 developers

Advanced Configuration - You can attach specific tag to this interview session. Later, you can use these tags to help you sort or find specific interview sessions

Interview Rules - This rule applies to all questions. You can create actions for different situations that might happen when users answer your questions.


Submitted Applications

Here you can monitor all applicants who completed this interview session including those who submitted and those who didn't. You can see everyone's results easily and make quick data driven decisions


Publish Your Interview

After you've done setting up all the questions, adjusted the settings, and put down the rules, you can make your interview session public and let job seekers apply to this job opening easily from your career page

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