Introduction of Apply & Interview option for candidates

This new feature enhances the candidate experience by enabling applicants to apply and immediately complete an AI Interview without waiting days for a response. It empowers hiring teams to recruit faster by providing immediate access to richer, additional candidate details, facilitating quicker progression to subsequent hiring rounds. For companies, this translates to a significant reduction in both hiring costs and time to hire.

Users

Candidates

Requirements

AI Interviewer must be enabled

Value

• Candidates often face long waiting periods, sometimes days, after applying before they can interview, leading to a suboptimal experience.

• Companies face a challenge to reduce the overall cost and time associated with hiring new talent.

• With this feature, when a position is configured for ‘Apply & Interview’, candidates are presented with a direct option to start the interview process immediately after submitting their application. The system automatically assigns an AI agent based on relevance to the position's language and accent.

• Admins can configure flexible override rules based on position location, department, or candidate IP geolocation to tailor interview settings (like templates and modes) for specific scenarios. This provides immediate, structured feedback, allowing hiring teams to quickly assess candidates and move qualified applicants forward, significantly reducing the time to interview and time to hire.

• Customers may notice the following benefits with the use of this feature:

  • Enhanced candidate experience

  • Faster recruitment

  • Reduced cost and time to hire

To know more about this feature, read Apply & Interview with AI Interviewer.

Note: The ‘Apply & Interview’ feature is only available when candidates apply for an individual position directly, and not from the job cart.

Impact on existing workflows

• Upon successfully submitting the application for an eligible position, candidates are directed to a confirmation screen that clearly informs them about the AI interview link and next steps, featuring a Start AI Interview option.

• Recruiters receive email notifications when feedback from an ‘Apply & Interview’ session is ready. Feedback is automatically attached to the candidate's profile and is visible for review within the system.

• The system auto-selects the AI agent for the interview based on relevance scores tied to the position's language and location, maintaining consistency with the default value for the recruiter-scheduled agent choices.

Initial setup

Feature can be enabled through FMT. Requesting enable will initiate a support ticket to get you the assistance you need.

To configure this feature further, read Configure Apply & Interview for Candidate Experience.

Note: This feature was earlier released as pre-GA, available within Feature Management > Pre-GA. It's now available within the all features tab.