Skills to test (focus areas) in an interview plan

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This new feature enables recruiters to define focus areas or skills to test directly within the interview plan. It allows for the customization of feedback forms based on these selected skills for each interview round. By empowering recruiters with this control, the interview process becomes streamlined. This also standardizes the feedback collected across all candidates for a given position.

Users

Recruiters, Customer Admins, Hiring Manager

Requirements

• Interview Plans should be enabled. To know more about interview plans, read Create interview plans.

• If you’re a Talent Design customer, you should enable Skills Design so that ‘Skills to test’ get auto-classified into Skill Groups based on Skills Design categories. Also, users must be provided with these permissions - VIEW_SKILLS_ENGINE, MANAGE_SKILLS_ENGINE, so that they can view the skill groups.

Needs addressed

• Recruiters can define the skills to test (focus areas) for a given position within the interview plan and assign them to specific interviews at every stage. This removes the need for admin involvement in making updates, reducing delays and easing the administrative burden.

• The selected skills automatically appear in the feedback forms as ‘star-rating questions’, ensuring consistent and standardized evaluation across all candidates for that position.

• Interviewers can see skills to test in the Interview Center so that they're aware of the interview focus areas.

For more details on this feature, read Skills to test in an interview plan.

Impact on existing workflows

• In the interview plan, you’ll see a Skill to Test section at the top where you can review, update, categorize, and save skills to test.

  

• In every interview in the interview plan, you can choose the skill to test from the saved list.

  

Initial setup

This feature will be available to customers by default. Customers don't need to do anything to see this change in their Eightfold environment by the sandbox and GA dates.