Your company is using Recruit to improve recruiting, and you’ve been added to one of the hiring teams as an interviewer. By the time you’re invited to interview, the candidate has already passed a preliminary screening. We’d like to show you just how easy Recruit is to use so you can prepare, interview, and evaluate candidates.

1. Getting ready

• Connect your calendar: Display your availability to make it easier for interviews to be scheduled with you.

• Configure your availability for interviews: For Growth and Enterprise plans, Recruit's Auto-scheduling saves you time by letting candidates select suitable times based on your availability. This process makes the hiring process more efficient and helps improve the candidate experience.

2. Interviewing basics

• Schedule an interview 
  When a candidate reaches an Interview step, a position coordinator or the interviewer will be assigned to schedule an interview. Once confirmed, the interviewer and the candidate will receive an email notification with the scheduled time, which can be added to your Gmail or Outlook calendar.

• Conduct an interview 
  Once a candidate is scheduled to have an Interview, the interviewer and candidate will receive emails with calendar invitations for the scheduled time.

• Manage the scorecard
  Complete and submit your evaluation following each interview when it's fresh in your mind. Take deep notes, for your personal use and for sharing with your team.

• Find or prepare interview questions  
  Recruit allows you to create interview questions to use when conducting interviews, so every interviewer can always access the questions you want them to ask. When conducting an interview, you can click on a question to mark it as asked so you never ask a candidate the same question twice.

• Tag candidates    
  Candidate tagging makes it easier to classify candidates so they can be quickly retrieved in the future while searching for relevant candidates in your database.  

• Create custom email templates                                                                            
  Custom templates make life easier whenever you have to send the same message multiple times. For example, sending homework assignments to candidates or asking for references.

• Interview invites for the interviewer and the candidate 
  Different templates are used by Recruit for Interviewer and Candidate invitations. Learn the difference between the details shared with you and the candidate in the interview invite.

3. Collaboration

• Discuss candidates with teammates 
  Internal communication is a key element in the hiring process. Leave comments and start the conversation about a candidate with other teammates all documented on a candidate’s profile.

• Share your evaluations with external collaborators
  Sharing full candidate's evaluation outside Recruit can be done easily with this functionality.