Interview every applicant
before you interview anyone.
A journey is a short, structured pre-interview that every applicant takes on their phone. Knockouts, skills, video answers, culture fit and references, scored against your criteria and ranked for you.
Anatomy of a journey
Build it once. Every applicant takes it.
Put the steps in the order you want. Each job can have its own journey, or reuse one across similar roles.
Knockout questions
Must-have questions that end the journey politely when a requirement isn't met.
Skills checks
Question pools, shuffling and grade bands, with integrity signals while people answer. Coding answers get an AI code review.
Video answers
Candidates record answers on any device. Add a recorded or AI-generated interviewer to ask each question.
Culture check
A short quiz built from your values, scored for fit.
Documents and references
Collect licenses, certificates and reference contacts in the same flow.
Emails and score gates
Send emails on a delay, and move people on by score so the right ones reach your team.
Scoring
Scored on your criteria, not a black box.
Every answer is transcribed and scored against the guidance you write for that question. Scores roll up into one overall score, and score gates use it to move people on.
Evidence next to every score
Each score sits beside the answer and transcript that earned it, in one report.
Tuned to your team
Set how strict scoring is for your organization.
People stay in charge
Override any score. Corrections feed back so scoring learns what your team values.
Video answers
The signal of a video interview, without the scheduling.
Candidates record when it suits them, on the phone in their pocket. You watch their answers in the report, next to the transcript and the score.
Any device, nothing to install
Answers are recorded in the browser on a phone or laptop.
Retakes when you allow them
Let candidates retake a journey if something went wrong.
An interviewer on screen
Ask each question with a recorded clip or an AI-generated interviewer video.
Ranked review
Open one queue. See who to call first.
Finished journeys land in a ranked review queue across every job. Compare people side by side, share a report with a hiring manager, and invite the best straight to an interview.
Review queue
Every completed journey, ranked, across all your jobs.
Compare board
Line candidates up question by question.
Shareable reports
Send a hiring manager a secure link to the full report.
Automatic interview invites
Invite top scorers to the first interview stage as soon as they finish.
Candidate experience
Short, mobile and respectful of their time.
Applicants see how long it takes, can come back to finish, and get answers to their questions along the way.
Clear progress
A step timeline shows where they are and how much is left.
Pick up where they left off
Continuation emails bring people back to finish.
Questions answered
Candidate Concierge answers questions about the role and the process, and hands off to your team when it should.
Interview-level signal on 10x more people.1
~12 / day
candidates a recruiter can phone screen
~120 / day
scored journeys a recruiter can review
0
interviews booked before you see the evidence
Works with the rest of InsightHire
Applicant tracking
Jobs, approvals, careers pages, pipeline, offers and reporting on one candidate record.
Explore Applicant trackingInterviews & scheduling
Calendar sync, self-booking links, structured scorecards and a notetaker that writes the summary.
Explore Interviews & schedulingVouch
Reference collection, trust signals, contact and license cross-checks, and quality-of-hire tracking.
Explore VouchQuestions, answered
What is a candidate journey?
A candidate journey is a short, structured pre-interview that every applicant takes before anyone books a call. It can include knockout questions, a skills check, recorded video answers, a culture check, documents and references. Each answer is scored against your criteria, so you get a ranked list with the evidence behind it.
How long does a journey take a candidate?
You decide. Most teams keep it short (a few knockout questions, a handful of skills questions and two or three video answers) so it fits comfortably on a phone. Candidates see their progress the whole way through.
Do candidates need to download an app?
No. Journeys run in the browser on any phone or computer, including the video answers.
How does scoring work?
Each answer is transcribed and scored against the guidance you write for that question, then rolled up into an overall score. Your team can override any score, and those corrections help scoring match what your team values. People make the hiring decisions.
Can we write our own questions?
Yes. Write your own, have AI draft questions for a role, or start from a template and edit it.
How do journeys fit with the rest of the ATS?
Journeys are part of the InsightHire applicant tracking system. Results land on the candidate record and in the review queue, and top scorers can be invited to an interview automatically.
See your next applicant pool, ranked.
Book a demo and see a journey built for one of your roles.
- 1. A typical recruiter phone screen runs 15–30 minutes. Add scheduling and notes and it's about 30 minutes a candidate, or roughly 12 candidates in a 6-hour day. Reviewing a scored InsightHire journey report takes about 3 minutes, or about 120 candidates in the same day. Your numbers will vary. Source ↩