Who: Recruiters, Hiring Managers, TA Leaders

Requirements:

• Enabling Standalone AI Interviewer requires an additional license cost. For further details and assistance, contact your dedicated Account Executive or Customer Success Manager.
• Standalone AI Interviewer licensing can't be combined with an existing Enterprise AI Interviewer license.
• To sync jobs and candidates automatically or save interview results, you need to set up a supported ATS integration. If you don't have this, you can manage positions and candidates in the standalone workspace.

What's new: Standalone AI Interviewer provides a dedicated environment that uses Eightfold’s AI Interviewer engine without requiring the full Talent Acquisition or Talent Tracking products. This enables organizations to adopt AI-powered interviews faster.

It delivers an end-to-end flow—from creating positions and onboarding candidates to sending AI interview invites and tracking initiated/completed stages—so recruiters get structured interviews, transcripts, recordings, and scores—all in one place.

How it works: With Standalone AI Interviewer, recruiters create or import positions, add candidates (or sync them from an ATS), and trigger AI interviews. The system sends interview links, conducts the interview, and surfaces transcripts, recordings, scores, and feedback for review. This can be shared with the hiring team or synced back into the ATS.

→ Schedule interviews with Standalone AI Interviewer | Configure Standalone AI Interviewer | Understand Match Score and AI Interview Score

Who: Recruiters, Hiring Managers

Requirements: At least one open position and a defined job description. Also, AI Interview Guides should be enabled

What's new: The Interview Library provides access to over 10,000 market-validated interview guides across 20+ industries to eliminate the need for manual setup. The system uses AI to analyze job descriptions and recommend specific guides for profile screening, coding, and functional interviews. This standardized approach ensures high-quality candidate evaluations while significantly reducing the time required to prepare for interviews.

How it works: Browse the library to select a guide, which creates an independent copy for your specific position that you can customize or edit. Any new competencies or questions you create are automatically synced back to the Admin Console for organization-wide reuse.

→ Work with Interview Library and Guides

Who: Recruiters, Hiring Managers

Requirements:

• AI Interview Companion should be enabled
• Users must join the interview as a participant authenticated within the same Zoom organization as the meeting scheduler.
• Guest users, such as candidates, will not see the companion's messages or nudges.
• Enable this feature by navigating to Admin Console > Home > Product Setup > AI agents > AI Interview Companion Setup.
• Enable AI Interview companion: enables the feature. This is required to enable the response and nudge agents
• Enable response agent: enables the response agent which answers questions asked by interviewers during an interview
• Enable nudge agent: enables the feature that nudges the interviewers with important information during an ongoing interview
• Currently, this feature works only for Zoom conferencing and in English language.

What's new: Conducting comprehensive interviews requires active listening while simultaneously tracking job requirements, candidate profile data, and feedback form questions. The Interview Companion Agent leverages AI and live transcription to evaluate your conversation in real time. It surfaces essential candidate profiles, role requirements, and discussion coverage metrics directly within the meeting chat. This empowers interviewers to seamlessly track progress, identify critical gaps, and ensure a structured evaluation without losing focus on the candidate.

How it works: The companion agent automatically sends periodic nudges highlighting unanswered feedback questions and suggesting next topics. You can also type quick commands (like profile, job, coverage, and summary) or ask free-form questions directly in the chat to instantly retrieve candidate insights on demand.

• Default Off (Configuration implementation required)

Who: Recruiters, Hiring Managers, Schedulers

Requirements:

• Enabling AI Interview Companion requires an additional license cost. For further details and assistance, contact your dedicated Account Executive or Customer Success Manager.
• Scheduling feature must be enabled to use AI Interview Companion
• When scheduling an interview, recruiters/schedulers must select a supported conferencing platform (Microsoft Teams, Zoom, or Google Meet) and attach a feedback form.

What's new: The AI Interview Companion ‘silently’ joins scheduled interviews, analyzes the context of the conversation, and automatically pre-fills interviewer feedback forms. To support complex hiring workflows, this system fully supports multiple languages, multiple interviewers, and multi-slot scheduling. This significantly reduces administrative overhead by seamlessly generating concise, auto-filled feedback forms for every participating interviewer. Also, compliance controls allow candidates to easily opt out of bot recording before the meeting.

How it works: When enabled during scheduling, a ‘silent’ AI bot joins the conference call to transcribe the conversation, and automatically pre-fills individual feedback forms for each interviewer to review, edit, and submit.

→ Understand and work with the AI Interview Companion

• Default on

Who: Candidates

Requirements: AI Interviewer and Coding Interviews must be enabled. Currently, the supported languages are C++, Java, Python, and JavaScript.

What's new: The coding interview platform now includes a secure, sandboxed environment that executes candidate code against predefined test cases. This enhancement provides candidates with immediate, quantitative feedback on their solution's accuracy. Recruiters gain objective performance signals through automated pass/fail metrics, reducing the reliance on manual code reviews to assess technical accuracy.

How it works: Candidates write their solutions using language-specific boilerplate code and click Run to validate their work against visible and hidden test cases. The system immediately displays execution results, including pass/fail status and errors, allowing candidates to debug and iterate on their code before submission.

→ Candidate experience with AI Interviewer

• Default Off (Self-service)

Who: Recruiters, Hiring Managers

Requirements: AI Interviewer must be enabled

What's new: This feature introduces granular status filters to the pipeline page to improve visibility into candidate progress during AI interviews. Users can now filter by specific stages—such as ‘Invite sent, pending’, ‘Interview started’, ‘Pre-screening rejected’, and more, to quickly identify bottlenecks or prioritize actions. This update streamlines candidate management by allowing users to isolate specific groups within the interview workflow instead of viewing the entire pipeline.

How it works: Navigate to the pipeline page, click the AI Interview Status filter, and select a specific status value(s) to refine the candidate list.

→ Configure AI Interview Status filters

• Default On

Who: Recruiters, Hiring Managers, Customer Admins

Requirements: AI Interviewer and AI Interview Guides must be enabled

What's new: Interview guides are now accessible directly from the Position Pipeline page, removing the need to navigate to the Position Overview. You can now create custom questions and skillsets directly within the guide configuration panel to tailor interviews faster. Additionally, a new preview experience during scheduling and historical tracking on the feedback page ensures you always know exactly which content was presented to a candidate.

How it works:

• Configure Interview Guides from the kebab menu on the Position Pipeline page allows you to view or edit guides. Inside the panel, type new entries to add custom questions for Profile Screening or skillsets for Functional interviews.
• When you schedule an AI Interview, you can now see a full preview of the guide you pick. Later, the candidate's feedback page will show the guide that was used, and its status if it was changed or removed.

→ Create AI Interview Guides | Schedule an AI Interview

• Default On

Who: Customer Admins, Recruiters, Hiring Managers

Requirements: AI Interviewer and AI Interview Guides must be enabled. Specific permissions—’Edit Guides’ or ‘Create Content’ must be assigned to user roles to enable editing capabilities.

What's new: This release introduces two new permissions to provide granular control over interview guide management: the ability to edit guides and the ability to create new content. With this update, organizations can define exactly who can modify guide structures and can create custom questions. This ensures better content governance by preventing unauthorized users from altering approved interview formats.

How it works: Users without specific permissions now default to a read-only 'Preview' mode. Users with the 'Edit' (perm_edit_guides) permission can create and modify guides, while the 'Create Content' (perm_create_content_guides) permission is specifically required to add custom questions within the guide panel.

→ Understand AI Interview Guides

Who: Recruiters, Hiring Managers

Requirements: Talent Acquisition UI refresh feature (released in 2023.Q1) should be enabled

What's new: This release introduces the Talent Acquisition (TA) module with a mobile-first interface to support recruiters and retail managers who work away from their desks. This update adds profile and resume viewability, scheduling interviews, feedback submission, and position management for smaller screens. With this enhancement, users notice a consistent experience across iOS and Android devices.

How it works: Access the TA module from any mobile browser to see simplified list views and responsive navigation tabs. You can now advance candidate stages, schedule multi-round interviews, and submit feedback using touch-optimized controls.

Value: Improve Recruiter Experience via Technology

Who: Recruiters, Customer Admins

Requirements: AI Interviewer must be enabled

What’s New: Administrators can now choose to disable video recording entirely for AI Interviews, or enable audio recording while hiding the video display from recruiters during the review process. This flexibility allows organizations to enforce appearance-blind assessments while maintaining necessary audit trails.

How it works: Navigate to Product Setup > AI agents > Video settings in the Admin Console and turn off the Enable video recording toggle to completely disable video recording, or turn off Show video on feedback form toggle switch to allow the recruiter to see only an audio recording on the feedback panel, candidate profile, and feedback form. Historical videos remain but aren’t displayed.

Who: Recruiters, Recruiting Coordinators, Hiring Managers

Requirements: AI Interviewer, profile screening, functional interviews, and AI Interview Guides must be enabled

What's new: This enhancement brings profile screening and functional interviews to parity with coding interviews by allowing schedulers to change the feedback form reviewer. This reduces manual re-routing of reviews, ensuring that AII feedback requests reach the right interviewer or hiring manager, keeping ownership clear for every scheduled interview.

How it works: While scheduling an AII interview (profile screening or functional), schedulers can use the Reviewer option to change the reviewer to another eligible user before sending the interview invite.

Who: Candidates, Recruiters

Requirements: AI Interviewer and coding interviews must be enabled

What's new: Focus mode introduces a dedicated ‘Focus mode’ control in coding interviews that lets candidates temporarily pause AI follow-up questions while they think and code. This leads to more natural coding interviews, where candidates can get into a flow state without feeling interrupted by the AI.

How it works: When a candidate clicks Focus mode during a coding interview, the AI interviewer stops proactively speaking. The candidate then continues coding, running tests, or asks for help when ready.

Who: Recruiters, Hiring Managers

Requirements: AI Interviewer must be enabled. Also, Functional Interview toggle in Product Setup must be enabled to trigger the generation of AI-recommended skillsets for positions.

What's new: This release introduces the Functional Interview type, which uses generative AI to automatically create role-specific competency assessments. Instead of relying on static backend configurations or manual mapping, the system analyzes job descriptions and calibration data to recommend relevant skillsets for every position. This capability allows organizations to instantly launch in-depth behavioral/functional assessments for any role, ensuring consistent evaluation criteria.

How it works: The system proactively generates up to ten recommended skill sets (such as "Strategic Planning" or "Java") based on the position. Recruiters select the desired skill sets within the interview guide, and the AI Interviewer dynamically generates questions to evaluate candidates against those specific criteria.

Who: Customer Admins, Recruiters, Hiring Managers

Requirements: AI Interviewer must be enabled. Also, interview types (Profile Screening, Coding, or Functional) must be enabled under Product Setup to configure guides for those formats.

What's new: This release introduces position-level interview guides that replace ad-hoc interview configurations to standardize the candidate evaluation process across your organization. This addresses the need for consistent assessment criteria and automated pre-screening to reduce the time spent on unqualified candidates. Users can now define specific question banks, coding challenges, or skill-sets once, and reuse them for all candidates applied to a position. This also supports ‘qualifying questions’ to automatically reject candidates who don't meet mandatory requirements before the Profile Screening begins.

How it works: Users can configure interview guides directly on the Position Overview page by selecting questions, competencies, or pre-screening criteria for Screening, Coding, or Functional interviews. During scheduling, the system automatically pre-selects the recommended guide, allowing recruiters to send standardized invites immediately or create new guides.

Users

Candidates

Requirements

• AI Interviewer must be enabled
• Coding interviews must be enabled

Value

• This feature addresses the need for a system that allows secure, scalable, and language-agnostic execution of candidate-submitted code during AI coding interviews.
• This feature improves the reliability and consistency of the interviewing experience. The framework ensures secure execution by running submissions in sandboxed environments, thereby mitigating risks associated with malicious code.

Users

Candidates, Recruiters, Hiring Managers

Requirements

• AI Interviewer must be enabled
• The ID verification feature must be configured at the group-id level
• Customers should have their CLEAR API keys

Value

• A reliable and secure method is needed to verify the identity of candidates and users, as this capability has become a standard expectation for platforms handling sensitive user information.
• With this enhancement, a production-grade, efficient, and secure identity verification process is implemented through a standard integration approach. The system ensures transparency by providing clear verification status to internal reviewers.
• This enhancement completes verification of the user’s identity in real-time and confirms engagement with real human individuals.
• Its supported on mobile devices and for all AI interview types.
• Benefits include:
• Security and privacy of user data.
• High success rate for user verifications.
• Transparency and operational efficiency to internal reviewers.

Impact on existing workflows

• Candidates starting an AI interview will now have an additional mandatory step in the pre-check flow if this feature is enabled.
• Customer Admins need to check whether ID verification is enabled for their environment. They also need to check if they’re using CLEAR for identity verification in their environment.
• Customers may also configure settings within the vendor's console for features like device fraud detection, document capture, and allowing retries.

Initial setup

For more details on this feature, read Identity verification in AI Interviews.

Users

Candidates

Requirements

AI Interviewer must be enabled

Value

• Previously, candidates encountered microphone or camera issues during live AI interviews, leading to a poor candidate experience.
• Now, candidates are guided through a System Check, an AI Agent Connectivity test, and a Consent step to ensure a flawless technical environment prior to their AI Interview.
• Upon clicking their interview link, candidates are prompted to give browser permissions. They then interact with an AI Interviewer that asks, "Are you able to hear?". Once audibility is confirmed, they provide digital consent to be recorded before being redirected to the actual interview screen.

Impact on existing workflows

• Candidates can't proceed to the interview until they have successfully passed the hardware check and agreed to the recording terms.
• Admins can customize the Consent to Record title and body text directly from the Candidate Consent config within the Admin Console.

Users

Recruiters

Requirements

AI Interviewer must be enabled

Value

• Recruiters need to ensure that candidates aren't using external technical aids or receiving assistance from others during an unmonitored AI interview.
• With this enhancement, a recruiter reviewing an interview can see a ‘Developer Tools Accessed’ flag if a candidate presses F12 or right-clicks to ‘Inspect’.

Impact on existing workflows

Developer tools aren't detected if they're undocked or if the candidate is on a mobile device.

Initial setup

For more information on configuring flagged activity detection, read Configure proctoring for AI Interviewer.

Users

Recruiters, Candidates

Requirements

• AI Interviewer must be enabled
• Coding and functional interviews must be enabled

Impact on existing workflows

Live transcription feature is already available for Profile screening interviews. With this enhancement, its added for all interview types.

Users

Candidates, Recruiters, Hiring Managers

Requirements

AI Interviewer must be enabled

Value

• Currently, there’s a lack of visibility into interview completion status in recruiter feedback.
• This feature introduces a new session status (Complete/Incomplete) and allows key parameters to be configurable at the interview template level.
• Interviews are explicitly marked as ‘Completed’, and scores are only generated for completed sessions. The system also supports an increased interview timeout (up to 24 * 60 minutes), configurable retries (default is five), and automatically sends a rejoin email upon certain errors.
• Customers will notice several improvements by using this feature:
• Increased clarity for recruiters regarding interview outcomes.
• Improved candidate satisfaction with the rejoin experience.
• Reduction in the percentage of incomplete interviews.
• Improved data quality, as scores are only generated for fully completed sessions.

Impact on existing workflows

The feature introduces several key differences in user experience and requires adjustments to internal processing:

Users

Recruiters, Candidates

Requirements

AI Interviewer must be enabled

Value

• Organizations often find it difficult evaluating the spoken language skills of candidates objectively and consistently. This is important for jobs that deal with customers, workers, and technical skills.
• This feature integrates automated language evaluation directly into AI interview sessions. Customers receive an automated, standardized, and explainable proficiency rating for every candidate, based on their interview performance. The evaluation is aligned with the open, license-free, and globally accepted CEFR framework, which is designed to assess natural, unscripted speech.
• Recruiters can enable the Evaluate Language Proficiency option when setting up an English-language profile screening interview. The AI Interviewer informs the candidate that their language skills are being assessed. After the interview, the recruiter can view the candidate's overall CEFR rating and detailed scores directly in the interview feedback form.

For more details on this feature, read Understand Language proficiency evaluation .

Impact on existing workflows

This feature is currently available only for English-language AI interviews within the Profile Screening interview type.

Initial setup

This feature will be available in the Pre-GA tab in the Admin Console. Click Request Enable to enable this feature in your environment.

Users

Recruiters, Hiring Managers

Requirements

AI Interviewer must be enabled

Value

• This feature provides a centralized, position-specific repository for all relevant documents. Now, you can upload documents or add them from a library, and the AI Interviewer uses this information to answer candidate questions automatically. The system also tracks unanswered questions, prompting users to update the knowledge base, creating a continuous improvement loop.
• A recruiter navigates to the Position documents section for a specific position. They can upload a new, role-specific FAQ document or add a company-wide benefits package from the existing library. When a candidate later asks the AI Interviewer a question about benefits, it pulls the answer directly from the provided document. Recruiters can also review a list of previously unanswered questions, create a new document with the answers, and upload it to make the AI Interviewer smarter for future interactions.
• Admins can create a document library at the customer level. By default, any document at customer level is available at the position level. Admins can also assign documents to positions based on location
• By using this feature, customers can expect to see improved recruiter productivity by reducing time spent on repetitive inquiries and an enhanced candidate experience through instant, consistent, and accurate information.

Impact on existing workflows

The system now tracks and de-duplicates unanswered questions from candidates for each position. Recruiters will be prompted to manage these unanswered questions, where they can view, download, and upload a document with answers, creating a feedback loop to continuously improve the AI's knowledge base.

Initial setup

This feature will be available in the Pre-GA tab in the Admin Console. Click Request Enable to enable this feature in your environment.

Users

Recruiters, Hiring Managers

Requirements

• AI Interviewer must be enabled
• AI interview score must be enabled

Value

• Recruiters need to quickly and confidently identify top candidates from a large applicant pool. Just the match score may not be enough; they need to understand the reasoning behind it to trust the recommendation and make data-driven decisions that go beyond a resume.
• The AI Interviewer automatically generates a comprehensive set of evaluation criteria by intelligently sourcing information from multiple key areas. This ensures the AI interview is tailored and relevant to the specific role.

To understand how scoring works, read Understand AI interview score.

Impact on existing workflows

• For Profile Screening interviews, a new Evaluation Criteria section will be visible during scheduling and on feedback forms. These criteria are automatically generated and consistently applied to all candidates for the same role.
• The feedback page will now display the AI's evaluation against each specific criterion, showing if the candidate's performance met the requirements.
• If a candidate retakes an AI interview, only the feedback and score from the most recent attempt will be used for the Match Score calculation; previous attempts are archived.

Initial setup

This feature will be available in the Pre-GA tab in the Admin Console. Click Request Enable to enable this feature in your environment.

Users

Candidates

Requirements

AI Interviewer must be enabled

Value

• The AI interview platform previously lacked a real-time transcription of the AI interviewer's spoken dialogue. This created accessibility barriers for users with disabilities.
• This enhancement provides a real-time, persistent transcript of the AI agent's voice. Candidates can enable a synchronized text transcript, allowing them to read along, review previous questions, and better comprehend the conversation.
• Using this enhancement provides the following benefits:
• Improved accessibility and compliance
• Improved candidate experience
• Increased inclusivity

Impact on existing workflows

• An Interviewer transcript button is available on the interview screen for candidates to enable or disable the transcript.
• Users can adjust the transcript's font size (Small, Medium, Large).
• When scrolling up to review past dialogue, a Go to Latest button appears to quickly return to the most recent message.
• The transcript is recorded continuously, so if a user disables and then re-enables it, the full conversation history from that session will be displayed.
• This feature currently doesn't transcribe the candidate's responses.
• The feature doesn't translate the transcript into other languages. However, the user interface elements of the transcript window do support i18n translation.
• If a candidate interrupts the AI agent, the agent will stop speaking, but the transcript will display the full intended message that the agent was going to say, not just the portion that was spoken aloud.

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.

To know more about the AI interview modes, read AI Interview mode selection.

Customer Admins can now also configure the Generate interview questions from setting for Apply and Interview within Candidate Experience. Navigate to Admin Console > Home > Product setup > AI agents > Setup Apply and Interview.

To know more about Apply and Interview, read Introduction of Apply & Interview option for candidates.

Users

Customer Admins, Recruiters, Candidates

Requirements

AI Interviewer must be enabled

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.

Users

Recruiters, Hiring Managers

Requirements

• AI Interviewer must be enabled
• Coding Interview must be enabled by navigating to Admin Console > Home > Product setup > AI agents > AI agents setup > Interview types

Value

• Many organizations face a significant bottleneck in scaling their technical screening processes due to manual, time-consuming coding interviews. Existing AI interview tools often don't have special solutions for evaluating coding skills, which makes it hard to hire people with these skills.
• Eightfold’s AI Coding Interviews provide a fully integrated, scalable solution to automate technical screenings.
• Recruiters can now select Coding Interview as the interview type for a candidate when setting up an AI interview. They can then choose from predefined templates or create a new one by selecting questions from a curated library. After scheduling, the candidate receives a notification and completes the interview in an interactive, in-browser code editor, with the ability to ask the AI agent for hints. The hiring team later reviews a detailed feedback report, which includes code quality ratings and the candidate's submitted code.
• This feature is designed to reduce the average time-to-hire for technical roles, improve overall hiring efficiency, and improve the candidate experience.

To know more about how scoring works, read AI coding interview scoring.

Impact on existing workflows

• Recruiters can schedule coding interviews in bulk for multiple candidates.
• Hiring managers can be delegated to review the feedback from a coding interview.
• The feedback report is enhanced to include coding-specific metrics like Code Quality, Code Readability, and Problem Solving, along with a "View Code" feature to inspect the candidate's final submission.
  
• Candidates will interact with a new interview interface that includes an integrated code editor. They can select their preferred programming language from a supported list.
• Currently, the AI agent for Coding Interviews is only available in English.
• To mitigate cheating, copy-pasting into the code editor may be blocked.
• Template titles must be unique. The system will infer a unique ID from the title provided by the user.

Initial setup

This feature will be available in the Pre-GA tab in the Admin Console. Click Request Enable to enable this feature in your environment.

Users

Customer Admins, Recruiters, Hiring Managers

Requirements

AI Interviewer must be enabled

Value

• With this feature, Eightfold offers demonstrable interview integrity by actively monitoring and flagging suspicious activities. Recruiters are equipped with tools to investigate potential use of unfair means, improving the quality of hires.
• The solution incorporates detecting the following events - browser tab switching, full screen exit, turning off mic, multiple people seen on camera, no candidate on camera, and detecting prohibited items like books.. Recruiters can also manually report or dismiss suspicious events.

For information on configuring this feature, read Configure proctoring for AI Interviewer.

Note: The system flags potential misconduct but doesn't automatically disqualify candidates or alter scores. Recruiters are responsible for reviewing flagged activities and making discretionary decisions.

Impact on existing workflows

• For candidates:
• Candidates will encounter new mandatory disclosures before the interview, including clear communication of rules, monitored behaviors, consequences, and consent forms.
• For recruiters:
• The Review Feedback page will now include Flagged activity. These signals will be marked with a green flag if not triggered or a red flag if triggered, indicating suspicious activity.
• Recruiters will have clickable timestamps tied to each suspicious event in the feedback form, with synchronized video and transcript playback to aid evaluation.
• A Flag Activity option will be present on the transcript for manual flagging of suspicious behavior.

Initial setup

This feature will be available in the Pre-GA tab in the Admin Console. Click Request Enable to enable this feature in your environment.

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

This feature will be available in the Pre-GA tab in the Admin Console. Click Request Enable to enable this feature in your environment.

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

Customers will notice the following enhancements:

• Support for additional languages across all communication templates (SMS, Email, and WhatsApp). Users can now create personalized default templates in their preferred language, improving accessibility and user experience.
• Feedback generation in the interview's native language with an integrated translation option
• AI Interviewer supports the following languages:

• English (US)
• English (UK)
• English (IN)
• German
• Spanish
• Spanish (Latin America)
• Portuguese (Portugal)
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• French
• French (Canada)
• Italian
• Dutch
• Norwegian (Bokmål)
• Swedish
• Finnish
• Danish
• Russian
• Turkish
• Polish
• Hungarian
• Ukrainian
• Croatian
• Romanian
• Czech
• Bulgarian
• Slovak
• Greek
• Japanese
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Hebrew
• Arabic
• Thai
• Indonesian
• Hindi
• Vietnamese

This enhancement ensures a more natural and personalized experience for candidates and streamlines the review process for recruiters.

Users

Recruiters, Hiring Managers

Value

• Default support for additional languages in communication templates ensures a seamless candidate engagement across diverse markets, reducing language barriers and improving the candidate experience for international talent pools.
• Interview summaries and feedback are generated directly in the language of the interview, and a new translation button on the UI allows recruiters to easily translate feedback into their current page language. This enhancement eliminates manual agent selection overhead and ensures language consistency throughout the entire process.
• Real-time translation of feedback forms enables hiring teams to fully understand candidate responses and make informed decisions without language comprehension gaps, leading to better hiring outcomes.

Impact on existing workflows

• Interview summaries and feedback will now be generated in the language of the interview.
• A new Translate button will be available for interview summaries/feedback. This button will only be visible if the interview language and the user's current page language are different. Clicking this button translates the feedback responses on the UI.

Limitations

While interview responses can be translated, the actual feedback form questions (which are user-written customer data) won't be translated.

Initial setup

This feature will be available in the Pre-GA tab in the Admin Console. Click Request Enable to enable this feature in your environment.

Users can now opt for one of the following interview modes. These modes can be selected during interview setup through the updated configuration panel. The selected interview mode is stored and retrieved at the time of the interview prompt, enabling the AI to dynamically switch between strict and default questioning approaches.

• AI Assisted
• Maintains the existing intelligent interview planning and execution capabilities
• AI autonomously develops questions based on candidate profiles and job requirements
• Supports custom recruiter guidance and additional interview parameters
• Provides flexible, adaptive interview experiences
• Template Only
• AI Interviewer conducts structured interviews using predefined feedback forms
• Draws questions directly from pre-selected evaluation criteria
• Ensures consistent, standardized interview processes across all candidates

Users

Customer Admins, Recruiters

Needs addressed

• The existing AI Interviewer workflow provides the AI with freedom to plan and execute interviews, sometimes leading to questions that deviate from specific feedback forms. Recruiters also expressed concerns about a perceived lack of control and sought a simpler, more controlled adoption path for the AI Interviewer.
• To address these needs, two distinct variants for the AII agent are introduced.
• The AI Assisted mode maintains the current AI's freedom to plan and execute the interview, allowing users to add additional guidance to modify questions.
• The Template Only mode ensures the AI agent asks questions only based on the provided feedback form, without requiring additional guidance during scheduling.
• The Template Only mode directly enables the AI to follow the recruiter's instructions and the feedback form as closely as possible, eliminating deviations. This provides recruiters with greater control over the interview questions and ensures the explicit confirmation of information already available on the resume, if desired.

For more details on how to work with AI Interviewer, read Set up Interviews using AI Interviewer.

Impact on existing workflows

• A new step, Select interview mode is introduced to the recruiter's workflow when scheduling an AI interview.
• This feature is currently applicable only for the ‘Profile Screen’ AI interview type.
• For the Template Only mode, customers must choose a feedback form when scheduling the AI interview.
• For customers using the Template Only mode, changes to interview questions can be made by editing the interview feedback form.

Initial setup

This feature will be available in the Pre-GA tab in the Admin Console. Click Request Enable to enable this feature in your environment.

Users

Admins, Recruiters

Needs addressed

• Previously, users couldn't selectively choose candidates across multiple pages. This limitation forced users to either act only on candidates visible on the current page (up to 20 at a time) or to select all candidates via a bulk action flow, even if they only needed a subset.
• Users can now seamlessly select specific candidates across various pages using checkboxes and then perform a single, unified action on all selected candidates.

Impact on existing workflows

All existing pipeline actions, including Advance Stage, Share, Contact, Reject, Schedule, Add as Ideal, Add to Community, Add Tags, and Save To Another Pipeline, will now seamlessly consider candidates selected across multiple pages.

Initial setup

This feature will be available in the Pre-GA tab in the Admin Console. Click Request Enable to enable this feature in your environment.

Admins, Recruiters

Requirements

NA

Needs addressed

• The existing email wizard was unsuitable for modern dynamic applications, cumbersome for adding new features, and prone to performance issues. Its design and UI were inconsistent with other communication channels like SMS and WhatsApp.
• The new contact wizard is a newer version of the email contact modal used for editing email recipients and message details. This enhanced editor comes with better performance, reusability of components, easier state management, and enhanced interactivity, which facilitates adding new and complex functionalities.
• Users can now add a candidate's email address on the fly without leaving the email composer if it's missing from their profile.
• Other enhancements include:
• HTML and advance editing (fonts, images, indentation)
• Intuitive preview mode
• Branding support
• Intuitive UI
• Recruiters will be able to use the templates set up by administrators or themselves, make minor tweaks, and see how candidates would receive their emails before sending them out.

For more information about how this feature works, read Email editor for managing candidate communication.

Initial setup

This feature will be available in the Pre-GA tab in the Admin Console. Click Request Enable to enable this feature in your environment.